Earlier Finance Minister Sue Essex had said there was no disagreement on the principle of the motion, and the assembly government was already committed to looking at ways of speeding up the process.

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The finance and enterprise committees brought a joint motion on supporting in principle the devolution of corporation tax powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, on 28 June 2011.

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The economy minister, Amado Boudou, said at a meeting of finance ministers from the G20 countries on September 5th that Argentina would, in principle, open its books to the IMF.

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Mr Obama's flip-flop on public finance is certainly cynical (and his willingness to justify it as an act of high principle even more so).

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In line with the "polluter pays" principle, the EU plan also stipulates that producers would have to organize and finance the treatment, recovery and disposal of waste.

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