Sentence examples for only in principle from inspiring English sources

One of them is important only in principle.

The mission was agreed only in principle and its legal basis remains unclear.

Moreover, denying innocent civilians access to food and medicine, if only in principle, is an abhorrent foreign policy tool.

The rebels have a strategy only in principle, with little operational coördination from town to town, and scant weaponry to defend against Assad's airpower.

In Kosovo, NATO and the United Nations have presided over a kind of gangster democracy, where minority rights are protected only in principle.

The C.I.A. report to Congress in April said only: "In principle, broader access to Russian expertise provides opportunities for Syria to expand its indigenous capabilities, should it decide to pursue nuclear weapons".

To date, dengue is the only disease for which the tourniquet test is still used, but in principle only for detecting dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Draconian measures without clearly established justification would be not only wrong in principle but counterproductive in practice.

The use of sniffer dogs to identify people carrying drugs as they make their way through London's transport system is not only wrong in principle, but it is also ineffective in practice.

But can we in good conscience accept this highly personalised institution, one that is not only defective in principle, but which is also so harmful to those who occupy it?

We must also show that equitable investment – in their health, in their education and protection – is not only right in principle but sound in practice.