But a monastic principle I overlooked is detachment.
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Warfare spawns brutality, but if a principle can be established that those guilty of the worst behaviour may later pay a price for it, some of those involved in future conflicts may think twice before committing atrocities on Bosnia's sickening scale.
Don Shepperd, a CNN military analyst, said the new weapon is not a fuel-air explosive but works on a similar principle.
But as a general principle, if somebody is engaged in fraudulent actions, they need to be prosecuted.
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They may be taught the basics of interest rates as a mathematical principle, but applied economics is a topic often left until high school for study.
Saban is a premier college football coach, but the principle seems universal to a competitive sports business where coaches are on the sidelines and players on the field make the points or runs that win or lose games.
David McNair, senior economic justice adviser at the charity Christian Aid, says tax havens are used in a variety of ways, but the general principle - for a business active in a number of countries - is to maximise the amount of profit made by subsidiaries based where taxes are low, at the expense of those based where taxes are high.
"Blatter doesn't want a war with Uefa or to anger the EU but this is a point of principle for him, " said one FIFA official.
Some say, with evidence, that the Tea Party is not a new movement, but instead a new name and organizing principle for both fiscal and social conservatives.
However, the States of Guernsey's Policy Council said it would look at introducing a law in principle, but added that it was a low priority.
Peter Harrison, the firm's chief executive, told BBC News that the demonstration did not focus on efficiency, but rather a proof of principle.
Previous political thinkers had talked about checks and balances with a monarch in the mix, but Madison helped apply the principle to a republic.
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The DUP says it is not against a referendum in principle, but it sees Mr Trimble's move as a cynical tactic and says any border poll should be held on a separate date from the assembly elections.
He said it was a good idea in principle but - surprise, surprise - governments needed to take it one step at a time.
This is problematic for practical reasons, but also on a point of principle.
The sum concerned is small, but it is a matter of principle.
Even with Fannie and Freddie inflating the bubble and the Fed and the rest of the Bush Administration weakening the dollar, the crisis never would have become so unprecedentedly destructive but for a seemingly arcane accounting principle called mark-to-market, or fair value, accounting.
But it will enshrine a new principle in our financial system: From now on, instead of competing to see who can come up with the cleverest scheme to make the quickest buck, financial institutions will compete to see who can make the better product and the better service.
Cheltenham Borough Council approved the plan in principle last year but a firm decision has still not been made.
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Mrs Merkel, caught off guard, agrees in principle but thinks such a referendum still lies far in the future.
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But a still stronger consideration is the importance of adhering to a simple principle, intelligible to the most untaught capacity.
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Installing a fiber optic cable is admittedly much less disruptive than building a new freeway, but the principle is the same.
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They can be made in various ways, but they all work on a common principle: a kind of crowd-control for electrons.
The Vatican's banking and other scandals are of a different magnitude, but the principle is the same: The Church cannot restore its stature while coddling wrongdoers.
But by his persistence Joyce established a principle, which is that the artist must have absolute freedom to work with the world he or she has stumbled across, the world as it is.
He conceded that the making of a whole-life order for Roberts was "wrong in principle" but he said in making such a concession, "we are not seeking to minimise the seriousness of the offences".
Engineered geothermal systems (EGS) are based on a related principle, but they work even in parts of the world that are not volcanically active, by drilling thousands of metres underground to mimic the design of natural steam or hot-water reservoirs.
John McCain, Goldwater's successor both in the Senate and in spirit, remember Goldwater as a unique figure in American history: a politician and military leader who did not fall victim to the power of his position, but a man who stood by his principle and his party.
In several countries, Europe's centre-right, still reeling from widespread electoral failure, faces a choice: hook up with the far right in order to grab back power, and thereby lend respectability to its ideas, or reject it outright on a point of principle but at the price of electoral defeat.
But the court relied on a basic principle of most established legal systems, that what is not specifically prohibited should be allowed, and ruled that the trademark law did not prohibit lawyers from acting as agents and that, moreover, a 1997 law governing lawyers said that they could provide any legal service, and that filing trademarks was certainly a legal service.
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