Such a principle is already enshrined in the law of most countries.
I don't think anyone who creates anything from an original point of view could ever agree to such a principle.
The others in the 5-to-4 majority were willing to accept the existence of such a principle, but decided that the sentence did not violate it.
"The government should be very cautious about sacrificing such a principle in pursuit of short-term interests, even if there are tens of thousands of jobs at stake.
George Eliot's Middlemarch is probably the greatest English novel to be written upon such a principle, imagining every character to have his or her human reasons and fears.
He justified it by saying that if people were allowed to shoot burglars with impunity, there was no knowing "where such a principle would end".
If so, no hint of such a principle has been found in laboratory experiments to re-create the basic building blocks of life.
Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware, was a natural consequence of such a principle, since the parties were entitled to enter into a contract as they chose.
In short, such a principle seeks to ensure that the pursuit of sexual pleasure occurs initially within a framework of spending and consumption, being ultimately directed towards a monogamous, patriarchal, potentially procreative relationship.
The new 'war against terrorism' in Administration and Congressional rhetoric has been cast as just such a principle, unifying the country and the political establishment behind a common goal and affecting or determining a great range of other policies.
Such a principle sounds to some like an expression of duty to Goldman's clients and yet the firm's executives in testimony before the Senate last month said they did not have a duty to customers.
