As the letter (which specifically calls out Verizon for challenging net neutrality in court) puts it: "In principle, a domestic ISP now can legally impede the video streams that members request from Netflix, degrading the experience we jointly provide.
As Bentham put it in Leading Principles of a Constitutional Code, "the more remote from equality are the shares … the less is the sum of felicity produced by the sum of those shares" (1838 43, II, 276).
As he put it in Newsweek last month, "principles of the Republican Party that would result in a return to America's founding vision should hold more appeal for the American people than principles that will result in men in women's bathrooms".
As Putin put it in a Moscow speech this week: "The principle of 'I'm allowed to do it but don't you try' is completely unacceptable".
He means, of course, Orpheus, the god of song, or, to put it in a more secular framework, the principle of singing itself, that joyous force which operates through us, the perennial enchantment of speech raised to the power of lyric.
As Descartes puts it in the Principles, everything "which can be attributed to body presupposes extension, and is merely a mode of an extended thing," and so, "…shape is unintelligible except in an extended thing…" (AT VIIIA 25; CSM I 210).
As Tony Harcup puts it in his Journalism, Principles and Practice: "The intro is crucial because it sets the tone for what follows.
As his biographer Jad Adams put it, he was "loyal to principles in politics, not people".
The government is planning to accept a change put forward in principle by a group of Lib Dem rebels, but table its own amendment along similar lines.
Here's the nicest way I can put this: In principle, yes.
