Sentence examples for First precepts from inspiring English sources

"Dazzle and enthrall me, be so fantastic as to delight me and so convincing as to turn me on" are the first precepts of the third pole, and, sadly, often its last.

The president of Iran, Ali Khamenei, unsuspecting, brought the debate into the open when he said, in a sermon Jan . 1 that according to Khomeini an Islamic government "has its authority within the framework of God's religious laws". "I must reiterate that our government is a branch of Mohammed's vice-regency and is one of the first precepts of Islam.

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Consequently, their form followed their function (to boil water)—the first precept of modern design.

Yes, indeed I did know about the Buddha's first precept.

Mr. Bernanke has been known to recite the first precept of the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm.

It was his first precept and a very important one to be put as the very first one too.

So there is a corollary to this first precept: when we get it wrong, we correct ourselves as quickly and forthrightly as possible.

"No killing is the first precept of Buddhism and must never be violated," the Chinese Tibetologist Li Decheng wrote in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

Our immediate duty is formulated in the first precept of natural law, that God is to be worshipped.