The Turkish-Cypriots, for their part, have won a moral victory by sloughing off their image as the main obstacle to the federal, demilitarised republic which both sides claim to accept in principle.
Even the al-Shareef recantation, like those of the Jamaa Islamiya, seems to accept the legitimacy in principle of violent jihad in defence of the faith.
The United Kingdom clung obstinately to the rebate secured in 1984, refusing to accept the principle of a freeze on it unless other European spending, such as on the Common Agricultural Policy, is discussed again - unthinkable for France...
Nevertheless, having regard to the information on the negotiating history which I have been given and to the arguments of the US Administration which I heard in Washington, I accept that a reasonable case can be made that resolution 1441 is capable in principle of reviving the authorisation in 678 without a further resolution.
In principle, America's Food and Drug Administration should now accept data from a trial anywhere in the world that meets those standards.
Deacon is arguing that scientists can accept head on, the notion that conscious thought is not material, and yet in principle can be explained in natural terms by a sort of architecture of constraints.
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.
What we have not seen is any specificity from the Republicans or any indication from the leadership that they're going to accept the basic principle that wealthier Americans are going to pay higher rates, rates that were in place under the Clinton administration when this economy grew rapidly, the middle class saw its incomes rise and the wealthy did very well, to boot.
And in some ways, while these are hard issues, it is something we can do easily if people accept the principle that we have to compromise to do it.
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