Earlier this month, the Edinburgh Bar Association voted unanimously to take action in principle if the government pressed ahead with the bill.

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Again, the Pause Principle in action.

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The court said it overturned the settlement because it violated the fundamental principle behind a class action.

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In accordance with the Burra Charter, Article 3.1, the project team adhered to the principle of sustainability, emphasizing that all programmes and action plans addressing the protection and maintenance of the Shalamar Gardens must be sustainable.

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As has been thoroughly documented by Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, the marine environmental protection requirements emanating from LOST are rooted in the European-derived "precautionary principle, " a legal tenet requiring assurance that a proposed action will cause no harm to the environment before proceeding.

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The nature of the Russian objection was unclear, but an EU negotiator told me he believed the Russians were making a point of principle and did not expect further action.

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This also starts to get into another principle: Moral Hazard, the idea that if there are no perceived consequences to an action, we slack off.

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One of the arguments most frequently employed to urge the president's removal is that, in the United States of America, no one is above the law, and if the Senate does not take action against the president, convict him and remove him from office, we will not be keeping faith with that principle.

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