The notion that there is a very large family of principles of natural selection, each with a restricted range of application, will be attractive to those biologists uncomfortable with a single principle or law of natural selection, and to those philosophers of science who treat the theory of natural selection as a class of models.
Instead, he rhetorically flogged the "special interests" behind sugary drinks and promised to appeal the judge's ruling.However this goes forward, I hope Mr Bloomberg remembers that even in lefty New York, there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with government action in principle, especially when it interrupts private decision-making.
A longtime champion of free-market principles, Mr. Bush looked uncomfortable as he defended the huge sudden expansion in the role of the federal government, which is buying up to $250 billion of bank stock in an effort to encourage new lending.
"But the GOP was generally uncomfortable with trashing a basic American principle that most of the country recognised and valued".
Experience in office brings with it the baggage of uncomfortable past associations; long consistency of principle lays you open to a charge of dogmatic inflexibility, but vision is, it seems, unimpeachable.
It emerges mostly in the form of debate on the so-called 1992 Consensus, a nebulous pact between Beijing and Nationalist Party leaders that allows both to recognize the principle of one China, bypassing uncomfortable details.
From the beginning, Ms Kendall was unfairly abused by the left as a Tory stooge but to her immense credit she has doggedly stuck to her principles – even if they are uncomfortable to the party faithful.
While transparency can be uncomfortable, it is hard to argue against it in principle.
Stuck between these incompatible principles, phantom governments tend to point out uncomfortable precedents and double standards and latch on to foreign patrons.
This way of gently exploring the symptoms and not being afraid of uncomfortable sensations has been found to be a powerful treatment principle in stress and trauma therapy [ 75].
