The group has core principles on issues like human dignity and religious freedom, but Mr. Sinkford said members' theological views ranged widely, including Christian, Buddhist and various forms of Earth-centered spirituality.
Mr. Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee, said the group reached "an agreement in concept, in principle," on some issues.
Returning from negotiations with Micron in the United States, Lee Yeon Soo, vice president of the government-controlled Korea Exchange Bank, lead creditor for Hynix, said the creditors had reached "an agreement in principle on major issues".
But you have to remember that he didn't free the slaves on day one (nor had he promised to), he didn't stand on principle on every issue and he was not some sort of mythical statue of a man that never budged.
Having long been a proponent of Lords reform, I am rather surprised to find myself agreeing in principle on the issue with David Cameron.
Having gained credibility by confirming these settled moral judgments, the original position then goes on to select principles for issues on which people's judgments may be less certain, such as how society should structure employment opportunities and what a just distribution of wealth and income might be.
Second, the president should identify key American principles on core issues — not bridging proposals.
The defense's appeal of Rosie's first courtroom outing, in the rape case, is likely to establish legal principles on the issues of dogs in the witness box.
The tension that looms in the new administration will be between Republican moderates, who share many of the same first principles on antitrust issues the Clinton antitrust prosecutors held, and the more ideological crowd advising Mr. Bush, who would like to see a return to the Reagan days of relatively little antitrust enforcement.
But he added: "People in China think it has tried to co-operate with the US but has its own interests and principles and opinions on issues.
