"The partners have published a clear and robust set of principles for joining, including a high level of detail to improve transparency about the financial commitment required.
According to Professor Edmund King, Miles' decision to support Matilda was guided by expediancy rather than principle, and the necessity of joining forces with Matilda's illegitimate half-brother, the powerful Robert, Earl of Gloucester, who was the overlord of some of Miles' fiefs.
At a workshop I gave at the Omega Institute in the Hudson Valley in New York, I invited Bob and his horses to demonstrate predator/prey principles and the concept of joining up.
Around half of those polled were in favour of joining at least "in principle".
Mr. Vance -- who had decided to leave office whether the rescue succeeded or failed -- was only the second secretary of state in the history of the United States to resign on a matter of principle, joining what another secretary of state, Dean Acheson, called "the most exclusive club in America".
The same goes for the accusations of treason, turn-coating, trickery, opportunism, "the charge of his reversal of his belief on religious tolerance," "his slipperiness and lack of principle in joining the League," all of which we find today in his biographies.
Learning in practice is a matter of acculturation, of joining a community of practice, rather than the application of decontextualized skills and principles.
Possibility of joining patient communities.
"These charges go to the very core of what ails Albany — a lack of transparency, lack of accountability, and lack of principle joined with an overabundance of greed, cronyism, and self-dealing".
