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Instead, the member states should seek consensus through dialogue and consultation and in accordance with the principle of democratic international relations,

In the spirit of cooperation, I advised the Red Sox I am willing to restructure my contract, but only within the guidelines prescribed by union officials. I recognize the principle involved, and fully support the need to protect the interests of my fellow players.

If you put a pop can in the freezer, it will expand and blow up. It's the same principle as underground. The colder the liquid gets, it expands and will break the container it's in.

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

I'm really sorry that on doctrinal grounds they don't understand that she cannot tip her hand on Roe. I really think ... they're failing to understand a very basic constitutional principle of judicial independence,

Sunnis have concerns about a few issues, one of which is the modality of federalism. They have dropped their opposition to the principle of federalism,

The best principle is not only to fight the last battle, ... In July we talked a lot about subways. In September we talked a lot about hurricanes. We still need to talk about aviation, about avian flu.

The Beijing agreement on principle in September I think was a very important agreement, but it needs to be followed up on an agreement on implementation.

The basic principle for doing the hedging is that it's fairly heavy oil and they want to basically have early production hedged. They seem to have done quite reasonably.

The basic principle (of the management agenda) is there are certain business practices that could be applied to government to help improve efficiency, accountability and service to citizens. That's what I'll be doing ...(It's) about making government run more efficiently.

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

The attorney general made the correct decision based on the facts and the law, and based on the principle that the people should have the last word on how our society defines marriage.

The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.

Everyone has an individual background. Someone may come from Python, someone else may come from Perl, and they may be surprised by different aspects of the language. Then they come up to me and say, ""I was surprised by this feature of the language, so therefore Ruby violates the principle of least surprise."" Wait. Wait. The principle of least surprise is not for you only.

I want to step up our drive to get more donors so that vital medical advances are not halted and people whose lives could so easily be saved with a transplant are not left to die unnecessarily, ... The overriding principle of all of this will be consent.

No matter what people say, I will seek a person I truly love and treat marriage seriously - that is a fundamental principle of mine.

It's never been a principle of law that people can read your e-mail as long as they don?t know who you are.

It's not about the money. It never was. The fundamental principle is, the guy loves this whole thing.

Doing away with the country of origin principle reduces the growth effect of this measure by half.

It's got to be a huge cultural fit or it won't work. But we've briefed the team and they will be involved in our selection process. Since the start we've made a principle of offering share options to the team so they also have a long term interest in our success.

Its principle purpose is to help keep occupants inside the vehicle and protected.

That's been the simple principle in a hundred years of football.

At the same time, it occurred to me that the 2D spectroscopy principle could also be applied to NMR imaging, previously proposed by Paul Lauterbur.

At the end of the day you have to be driven by principle and you've got to be driven by passion and your belief in what this country can be.

It's important to keep one core principle front and center: awarding a student a diploma without the skills and knowledge to back it up does the student a disservice.

It's best to have an injured ankle evaluated as soon as possible for proper diagnosis and treatment. If you can't see a foot and ankle surgeon or visit the emergency room right away, follow the RICE principle -- Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation -- until medical care is available.

The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.

It will be the opportunity to examine the under-capacity consideration, ... The most significant principle is protecting the classroom. We can make moves and juggle and at the same time still protect the integrity of the education process.

They can count on it that the EU will in principle use the same logic and calculations as during the expansion from 15 to 25.

In accordance with the principle of paying equal emphasis to the development of natural and human resources, we should value and solve the training and education of the poor,

In principle he doesn't have anything serious, but we will have to see how he recovers after the stage.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

In principle the market has room to continue gaining, but foreigners may take some profits.

In principle we welcome the withdrawal ... we welcome the evacuation of the settlements.

In the past, I proved my ability to conduct forceful negotiations with the Palestinians. I laid down a principle which is known to you all -- the principle of reciprocity. They give, they get. If they don't give, they won't get.

If you need heart surgery, you don't want a surgeon who only got a C in medical school. The same principle applies in helping people with mental illnesses.

I have to emphatically point out that the one-China principle is the basis and promise of peaceful reunification,

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

But I'm not satisfied. The principle objective of the year must still be met. I absolutely don't feel like the gold medal favorite for the Olympics, even though I admit I am racing very fast.

China adopts a principle of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs.

Honestly, I think the citizens of this county, the taxpayers, expect us to do the right thing here. We're just trying to go by the simple principle of how would you like to be treated if in this situation.

Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man

Generally and in principle when confidence in the Iranian nuclear program is re-established ... we could come back to the possible implementation of the right that Iran has to develop a nuclear energy sector full scale.

George Bush's guiding principle is a twisted reflection of the American bargain, ... Instead of opportunity for all, special privileges for none, he's given us, opportunity for all the special interests.

He said that Malaysia, under the principle of co-prosperity, wishes that the peace process will succeed without any material reward.

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

The two countries have all along supported each other on the principle of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and shown mutual understanding on issues concerning each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity despite the profound change of the international situation,

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

This is a very important principle for any journalist. I would be derelict in my professional duty as a journalist if I were to answer that question.

It's an agreement in principle so we have to write all the details. We're really happy with the results of the settlement - but according to my legal counsel, that's all I'm allowed to tell you.

It's a matter of principle to me. I don't think the taxpayers of Jefferson County should have to pay for something they already own.

It's clear that Democrats can't afford to have Americans believe that they would sacrifice our security for the principle of civil liberties. Democrats, I think, need to be more assertive in a pro-security message.

I recognize that there are no simple solutions to the debt problem, ... But where there is agreement in principle that debt relief is essential and when delays have a profoundly negative impact of the lives of poor people, clearly more must be done.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

A principle of justice is that the defense needs to be able to conduct interviews in a privileged setting. Otherwise there could be a perception of unfairness or abuse.

an important victory for what has been Al Gore and Joe Lieberman's basic principle since Election Day -- a full and fair count of all the votes.

As for Beijing, the 'One China' principle is the political basis ... that the two sides must agree on before they can engage in any kind of dialogue.

Any budgetary adjustment is aimed at organizing a better and more frugal Olympics. The Chinese government's principle is, spend less ... accomplish more.

a fundamental objection to the principle of a reporter's privilege as an exception to every citizen's duty to give testimony in a federal criminal proceeding.

A fundamental principle of our economic system is that the benefits of economic growth will flow to those responsible for their creation. When how fast your income grows depends on your position in the income scale, this principle is violated. In that sense, today's unprecedented gap between the growth of the typical family's income and productivity is our most pressing economic problem.

So science is basically, at it most fundamental level, a public form of knowledge, a form of knowledge that is in principle accessible to everybody.

The bottom line is the same principle will apply in the civil and criminal cases.

The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

The formula proposed by the EU harms the basic democratic principle that each vote should have the same democratic value.

The draft law does a good job in preserving and solidifying the country of origin principle for e-commerce, but it is not good news for offline publishers,

The hearing officer maintained her position that the correspondence is internal and in principle irrelevant for the purposes of Microsoft's rights of defense.

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.

The important principle here is that this provides an assurance (to Sunnis) that this constitution is not the end of history but is subject to amendment,

The Home Office must get an urgent grip on this problem. They are failing in their principle responsibility to protect the citizens of this country.

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

The hurricane really unmasked racial concentrations and poverty that are already recognized in cities like Detroit and Newark, ... One principle of the rebuilding must be an all-out effort not to replicate the mistakes of the past that created the hyper-poverty in the city.

The first principle of democratic government: Respect the people.

The club's principle purpose is to advocate for and defend pro-growth policies, ... We have consulted with counsel every step of the way and have followed the law and regulations that govern our work.

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

The central task of this fifth round of the six-party talks, starting from today, is to formulate the detailed rules, methods and steps to implement the joint statement under the principle of commitment for commitment and action for action.

The commissioner told the coaches and the GMs in Indy over the weekend to expect to hear by Wednesday at 4, either we have a deal in principle or we don't. I think everyone on both sides feels like there's too much to lose. If I were betting, I'd bet there would be a deal by Wednesday.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

A core principle of No Child Left Behind is annual testing in grades three through eight -- so that we know how students are doing,

A clear majority in principle is willing to sacrifice civil liberties to a certain degree in order to make Britain safer.

For a lot of recreational athletes, the principle is very important. It's even more important as you age.

It's the principle at stake here as to whether or not the courtroom doors are going to be open or shut. If you allow them to chip away at... court proceedings and records, pretty soon you won't have open courts anymore.

It's the principle of the thing. If there is an issue, why didn't the council ask us about it, so we could correct the issue or come to a mutually agreeable solution to the problem?

For me, I find the attack disrespectful with regard to the fundamental constitutional principle of the separation of church and state,

It's a hugely important case, in part because it relates to the world's best-selling book, but also because of the principle of law involved.

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.

It's not going to hurt us financially that much, the overall amount, but it's just the principle of the thing and the idea that he's preying on other people.

As a conservative, I believe the only real check on government is a free press, ... And as someone who believes in limited government, I believe nothing is more conservative than promoting and protecting the principle of a free press.

This president and this first lady are committed to keeping the residence open to the American public. This is one of the only residences in the world that's open for public tour. And the Clintons think that's an important principle to maintain," ()

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

The Republican Party is committed to the basic principle that everyone deserves a chance to achieve the American Dream.

There's clearly humor that goes too far and humor that is violative, and we are engaged in our humor in a complex call-and-response with one another. I'm telling you a joke to see if you think that it's funny... but if one of us violates some principle or touches on a particularly tender spot of the other, normally we adjust to that and move on.

It's just a matter of time. Is that really the principle we want in this country, where the operator of the service is excluding competitors?

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

The principle is important, because you need someone not under government control whose responsibility it is to investigate and find out the facts and come up with some conclusions.

The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.