Sentence examples for passed in principle from inspiring English sources

The proposal was passed in principle as part of a wider document entitled Refounding Labour, but the details have yet to be worked through, including whether an existing female deputy would have to stand down immediately if the party elected a female leader.

The four most important pieces of environmental legislation in the United States, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act were not passed to stifle economic development, but were passed in recognition of the simple business principle that prevention is cheaper than the cure.

Soon after separation, Queensland's Primary Education Bill was passed in 1860, subordinating denominational schools and reinforcing the principle of common school development in Australia.

As recently proposed, these limitations could in principle be by-passed if semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots or QDs) were used as fluorescent contrast agents for the in vivo imaging of SLN.

Time passed in silence.

It passed in 1994.

She passed in '85.

It passed in November.

Germ-line gene editing could in principle be used to make genetic alterations on IVF embryos that could be passed down the generations from parents to children.

In 1993 the Welsh Language Act was passed; it established in principle the equality of Welsh and English in Wales.

Stephen Legomsky, former chief counsel with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a law professor at Washington University in St . Louis said Congress itself has recognized "deferred action" in laws passed after the principle had become widely applied in the 1980s.