• He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he hoped the result would reaffirm the principle of self-determination and send a message to both the international community and to Argentines.

    BBC: Falklands referendum: Islanders vote on British status

  • These new arrangements should give due consideration both to the principle of self-government by the inhabitants of these territories and to the legitimate security concerns of the parties involved.

    BBC: The Camp David Accords of 1979

  • But more important is the principle of self-reliance.

    FORBES: The "New" North Korea: Prisons With Designer Hand-Cuffs

  • Those figures are static or in some countries worsening: given the demography (Romani families are usually large), improving schooling is a matter of urgent European self-interest as well as of principle.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's Romanies

  • But here's the point: The integrated American model of affluence linked to democracy linked to free markets as one indivisible principle doesn't seem so self-evident anymore.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As we mark the 100th anniversary of Rosa Parks's birth, we celebrate the life of a genuine American hero and remind ourselves that although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • He addresses such questions as: May a State ever respond to a computer network attack by exercising a right of national self-defense? and: Must attacks adhere to the principle of proportionality?

    FORBES: Pace of US Cyber-Preparedness Accelerating

  • And yes, for all the talk of principle, many Tories might just be voting for electoral self-interest rather than an enthusiasm for improving democracy.

    BBC: Boundaries: a running sore?

  • In the 200 years since Kant, a key principle of ethics has been that motivation must be free of self-interest, and intrinsically good, if it is to be recommended as a guide for behaviour.

    ECONOMIST: Company goods

  • On the contrary, they insist, it is those who do not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state who undermine the principle of equality, by denying to the Jews the right of self-determination they extend to others.

    ECONOMIST: Israel

  • Opposition parties support reforms in principle, but have little incentive to make life easy for a president whose party opposed those self-same reforms when they were in power.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming Brazil

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