The thinking behind this strategy is that the I.O.C. would be hard-pressed to punish an athlete for advocating one of the organization's own principles.
And, on the NODE's own principles, what is "well-founded", or the reverse, depends not on some dead pedant but on actual usage which is, normally, not to split.
He oversold the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, bungled the aftermath, betrayed America's own principles in Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, ignored Mr Blair's pleas to restart peace diplomacy in Palestine.
Despite Descartes's errors on this point, Desgabets claimed to have drawn the empiricist thesis out of Descartes's own principles.
Although no one would hold him responsible, in a juridical sense, for the outcome, on Marx's own principle the outcome tells us something about the ideas.
"In particular, the representativeness of the no-take reserve is poor, with inadequate protection for key habitats in the west and south, contrary to the Australian government's own principles for marine conservation.
Roddick ensured that Body Shop's own principles were protected under the terms of the takeover, and insisted she could be a "Trojan horse" who would be able to influence the new parent into adopting some of her ethical ideas.
When I set about revising Plain Words, the guide to English usage by my great-grandfather, Ernest Gowers, I soon realised that applying the book's own principles to the job would require me to eliminate from its pages all uses of the indeterminate masculine pronoun.
It is a striking feature of Sidgwick's own principles that they do not pass this test.
