accept in principle

"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。

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。

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。