Example Sentences

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Premier Mends-France, over brandy and cigars, told Eden that he was prepared "en principe" to try the British plan.

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Since Bidault had also accepted the plan "en principe," Adenauer expected to get matters moving in the direction of a brass-tacks settlement.

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No one knows what color it will be, but en principe it exists.

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The prospect of making a decision, even en principe, threw the Assembly into a tizzy.

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“Venit e familia principe Romanâ De Alteriis, cujus stemma argenteum in tegmine habet.”

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose