The Good Friday Agreement settled the dispute between London and Dublin about sovereignty, with both governments and the major political parties recognising the "principle of consent", namely that it's up to the will of the majority voting in a referendum whether Northern Ireland remains in the UK or becomes part of Ireland.

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Adnan al-Dulaimi, a lawmaker whose party is part of the biggest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, said his backers are for an agreement in principle, but they have "major reservations" about the current agreement.

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As a principle, we should agree on the major things.

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The TUC is committed to the principle of social partnership - the conviction that major national policies are best implemented with the agreement of government, employers and unions.

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We implement this principle technically by ensuring that each system performs only one major task.

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This proposal was initiated by West Germany and France, was endorsed in principle yesterday by the European Economic Community meeting in Dublin and will be a major agenda item at the upcoming NATO summit meeting in London and the Houston Economic Summit.

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And, at last, proper credit is given to John Major, who showed the right mixture of steely determination and neat political footwork in pursuing a fundamental principle, a determination to bring Sinn Fein to accept democratic and constitutional means.

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