Sentences with phrase «only as a matter of principle»

It is only as a matter of principle that Wenger puts his hands in the pockets so long as he thinks it's unreasonable.

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«As a matter of principle, prophets and watchmen didn't hold non-Jews accountable to God's unique covenant with Israel; their role was only to hold Jews accountable...

For Revelation in the ultimate resort and in principle claims the whole of reality as the possible subject - matter of its affirmations, even if only sub respectu salutis (in relation to salvation), and from this point of view even events and realities which are accessible to secular experience fall within its material scope.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Bohm indeed appears to find not only room for, but, even within physics itself, a necessity for «hidden variables,» which the usual scheme of quantum theory has ruled out as a matter of principle.

The analysis of «things» into «societies» of more ultimate units can be considered as his thoroughgoing attempt to push on toward natural entities in Aristotle's sense — even where Aristotle on the basis of bare perception could, despite his principles, see only a more or less amorphous, passive «matter.»

Thus, the principles of esthetic value here discussed may serve not only as guides in creating and appreciating what are called «art objects» and as criteria of qualitative excellence in curricular matters outside of the arts, but as attributes of the good life and as a source of general educational aims.

KEDAR, personally I would only pay all players their full salary when fit — when unfit just a basic far lower wage, written into contracts, as a matter of principle — so I agree with you on Wilshere.

The reason why I am now convinced that this is the only way forward is not just a matter of direct democratic principle, but also because I believe the government must be given an incentive to negotiate a Brexit outcome that the majority of the people (and nations) would prefer to remaining in the EU, as opposed to letting it get a «bad deal» (blaming Brussels, of course), only to be able to placate their diehard Brexitaliban wing by going for the «no deal» option.

Contrary to common assumptions, only a small minority of conservative Christians take the stance that Christian kids should be in Christian schools as a matter of principle.

While in practical terms, it doesn't affect me at all (I only have ~ 600 MB of eBooks), it bothers me as a matter of principle.

Considering that The Legend of Zelda's only other franchise comparison for voiceover involved a series of games known and parodied the world over as little more than a mockery, I was well aware that any voiceover in another Zelda game would be closely scrutinized and critiqued just on principle; I was determined to not let that happen again with such an important entry in the franchise, no matter how much time and effort it took.

Whilst the decision to recover at the level of the investors only and not at the level of the shipyard or at the level of the EIGs can be questioned, it is essentially a matter of recovery of State aid — for which the Commission has a certain margin of discretion but needs to comply with general principles of EU law — and not of existence of aid as such.

It was argued on behalf of the landlords that the salvage principle was not restricted to sums falling due only after the date of the administrator's appointment and that the principle required that as a matter of common sense and ordinary justice, the landlords receive payment of the disputed rent and other sums due, in full, for the period in which the administrator occupied the premises for the purposes of the administration.

As a matter of principle, in civil proceedings, evidence obtained by illegal means will only be taken into consideration if the interest in finding the truth is clearly prevailing.

Privacy protection can and ought to be at the heart of innovative tools — not only as a matter of legal compliance, but also as a principle of product design.