Sentence examples for true in principle from inspiring English sources

Even if that is true in principle, it is rapidly becoming meaningless in practice.

This is true in principle, but China canceled the building of new coal power plants and absolute coal use has declined in three consecutive years.

"After all, there are no talking pigs, are there?" Well, if one of the aims of philosophy is to establish what is true in principle, as opposed to what's merely true as a matter of fact (that's supposedly the job of empirical science), then even a merely possible counterexample will do.

This is true in principle, even in those cases where there is no actual score.

On the other hand, the existence of such a preferred frame made the equivalence of inertial frames correspondingly less interesting, even if it was true in principle.

While this is true in principle, determination of the arterial concentration does actually contribute only modestly to the observed variability of the SUR vs. K m correlation (which is quite small, anyway).

On such views, my judgment that what Hitler did was wrong could in principle be true while another person making the very same judgment in a rather different context (but one in which Hitler's actions, their context and consequences are kept constant) could be false.

Although some of these conflicts could in principle be true cases of HGT, the combination of long branches and near-neighbor exchanges makes these conflicts suspect, even given high bootstrap support.

The estimated effects should in principle be symmetrically distributed about the true unknown effect.

It is true that, in principle, type 2 transitions could also be produced by modifications of G nucleotides which are then read as A. Yet several studies [19], [21], [22] have now conclusively shown that the incidence of G nucleotide modifications is negligible.

Most of the things you see in the film are things I have read about, that are slightly twisted but are true in their principles.