On the surface, everything appeared a mess: bickering politicians, vituperative and ill-informed newspapers ("The job of the journalist in America", Tocqueville wrote, "is to attack coarsely, without preparation and without art, to set aside principles in order to grab men"), distracted citizens.
Clinton's role in supporting the coup in Honduras is a reminder that the Middle East is not the only part of the world in which she is willing to set aside principles of international law and human rights to advance perceived U.S. economic and strategic interests.
And that often requires the setting aside of principles — the adoption of an attitude of "live and let live".
Setting aside the principles of our political leaders here for a moment - accepting those as a given - I want to step you carefully through the politics of this.
In setting aside the most fundamental principles of her female contemporaries in order to protect her own political viability, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated that she cannot be trusted.
Working with other groups opposed to the death penalty like Amnesty International, the Sant'Egidio Community set out to counter Islamic reservations by urging a moratorium rather than outright abolition, thus setting aside the question of principle.
"I believe that the principle of setting aside one day in the week to worship and honour the God who made me and saved me goes right back to creation," he says.
Later, Mr. Edelstein said that Johnson "was a little testy about Lehman's integrity" -- Lehman was not one to set aside his principles in the hurly-burly of politics, Mr. Edelstein said.
Faced with the choice of running for re-election armed with a principle or with potentially millions more dollars to help offset the current Republican advantage in the super PAC wars, he set aside the principle, prompting quiet cheers from party operatives and expressions of outrage from advocates of tighter campaign finance controls.
Also, they should set aside these secondary principles and make direct appeal to the principle of utility in unusual cases in which it is especially clear that the effects of adhering to the principle would be substantially suboptimal and in cases in which secondary principles, each of which has a utilitarian justification, conflict (II 19, 24 25).
For this reason, in our analysis we set aside the GA4GH principles in an attempt to develop a more detailed list of core values that we considered to be important factors for the ethical sharing of data using ICT platforms.
