The answer, I am told by government sources, is firmly negative - for reasons of practice and principle.
While many disagree with the practice in principle, far fewer are likely to put their money where their mouths are.
Even President Bush, who understands that we are confronting a new and toxic ideology that extends far beyond Iraq, nonetheless systematically fails to practice the first principle of counter-ideological struggles: delegitimate your enemies.
But he has since shown precious little appetite for putting that principle into practice.
Labour MSP Charlie Gordon said these the plans were a bad set of ideas in practice as well as principle.
"Because of that I must teach my child that this is so and put that principle into practice and when my child persistently does wrong then I must show pain will follow persistent disobedience, " he added.
And note too that whilst participants in the world capital markets are important (and they are) it is recognised that the interests of other users of financial information are just as important, even if again practice has not followed principle.
The Global Insight authors reckon this is a problem only in principle, not practice.
Still, his hypercautious reluctance to send troops into danger led him at that time to take a position no different from isolationists in practice, though different in principle.
Joining the Euro is in my view a sensible thing for this country to do in principle but in practice the economic tests we've laid down have to be met because it is an economic and monetary union.
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Furthermore, in practice invocation of the precautionary principle focuses attention solely on the possibility of harm, often ignoring information about the dose to which people are exposed, avoiding consideration of benefits of the agent in question and whether safer substitutes are available, and giving greater weight to studies that appear to indicate a hazard, even when these studies may be of poorer quality.
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In a society, a lot of times we have to step back and ask ourselves if what we're doing in principle, not in practice, is right.
And then of course we saw that principle again put into practice by President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher on their respective sides of the Atlantic in the 1980s.
Supporting Lords reform in principle but holding it up in practice might become hard for Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, to explain.
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But John Healey, a former Labour health spokesman, claimed the hospital was being privatised which "is wrong in principle and it is wrong in practice".
In practice, conservatives had trouble living according to principle.
Treasury ministers want to stand firm on the principle but be flexible on the practice - examining ideas to roll over unused tax relief from one year to the next or allowing tax free lifetime legacies.
Although in principle the Dutch still favour austerity, in practice they have not yet been able to agree on how to do it (see article).
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Public opinion polls show strong support for the principle of closing city centres to traffic, though in practice, the move might prove less popular.
Accepting income redistribution in principle still leaves many questions about how it should work in practice.
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Most seem to support the principle of unification, even if they are unhappy about the practice.
If the principle we care about is protecting children from harm, the practice should pertain to all threats comparably.
In practice, this could be hard to achieve, but he has identified one principle.
The main purpose of thought experiments, though, is to show that a problem is soluble in principle and so to encourage others to try to solve it in practice.
Against bail-outs on principle, it has pushed for some of the biggest (in Turkey and Brazil) in practice.
For the government, Earl Howe said he was "deeply sympathetic" to the principle behind the move but warned it would be "extremely difficult to get right" in practice.
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