"I do not accept that cars that are sold in France are built abroad," he declared this week, at a stroke torpedoing the principle of competition in the European single market.

他在本周曾宣称，“我不能接受在法国销售的汽车产自国外”，这一举破坏了欧洲单一市场中的竞争原则。

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America's carmakers accept the principle, but they argue that in practice they too are a special case.

美国的汽车制造商采纳了这一原则，但他们又争辩说在实践过程中，务必要对他们特殊对待。

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Counter-intuitively, Postel's robustness principle (" be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept ") often leads to deployment problems.

跟直觉恰恰相反，Postel的健壮性原则(“严于律己，宽以待人”)常常导致部署出现问题。

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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.

ECONOMIST: Cyprus

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.

ECONOMIST: Public repentance

Most people accept this as fine in principle.

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