A former writer for Commentary said the appointment repudiated one of neoconservatism's founding principles, a commitment to meritocracy.
Like Mr. Godard, Mr. Portabella clings to aesthetic principles — a commitment to difficulty, to seriousness, to scenes involving fine-boned women with grave expressions and without clothes — that can seem both fragile and complacent.
"The one absolute principle is a commitment to transparency," he said.
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said tonight that the budget request's "guiding principle is a commitment to quality of life issues, and that is people: pay, housing, health care".
Implicit in the application of the Precautionary Principle is a commitment to review the arrangements and to carry out research aimed at understanding the underlying issue [ 12, 66].
The new plan, he said, "shows they've been listening to their economists and do have, in principle, a stronger commitment to trying to figure out how to create a more domestically oriented economy".
Core to her principles are a commitment to her south Wales roots and a determination to provide secure work for her employees in an area suffering economic challenges.
The principles included a commitment to eventually limit arms possession to the government, respect for minority rights and opposition to international and regional influence in Iraq's internal affairs.
Perhaps not surprisingly, few of the subjects studied appeared fully to have attained stage six, where moral reasoning is based on universal ethical principles and a commitment to the value of justice.
That code of principles includes a commitment to nonpartisanship, fairness and transparency of sources.
