Its fundamental political tenet was a consensus of middle-class taxpayers that the federal government was using their money to support fundamental and unwelcome challenges to their habits of life.
It is also a political tenet of liberal societies, whose laws and policies do not require individuals to organize their lives around any particular identity, but rather give them the latitude to make of their identities what they will (Appiah 2005; Appiah and Gutmann 1996; see also the entry on identity politics).
The United States and the Islamic Republic have divergent political tenets, world views, and alliances.
A Fusion worker, while canvassing the East Side, came upon an old lady who was easily converted to his political tenets.
During the administration of Gov. George Clinton (1743 53), DeLancey reversed his earlier political tenets and opposed the programs of the royal governor.
The New Yorker, August 25 , 1934P. 13 A Fusion worker, while canvassing the East Side, came upon an old lady who was easily converted to his political tenets.
By Francis Steegmuller and H. M. Moss The New Yorker, August 25 , 1934P. 13 A Fusion worker, while canvassing the East Side, came upon an old lady who was easily converted to his political tenets.
While nobody here is terribly nostalgic for the Taliban's local leaders -- although many residents still hew to the movement's religious and political tenets -- there is no huge affection for their replacements, either.
The leader of China's quasi-legislature said Thursday that China would never embrace Western political tenets like multiparty democracy or the separation of governmental powers because loosening the Communist Party's hold on power risked plunging the nation into "the abyss of internal disorder".
As a wishy-washy liberal who holds fast to the two great central political tenets of our time, as expressed by David Mitchell of this paper – "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that" and "it just goes to show you can't be too careful" – I am used to being on the side of … well, hopefully, kindness, doing the right thing and everybody getting along.
From guidance on the very simple concept of tolerance in Dr Seuss's The Butter Battle to titles specifically promoting pacifism such as David McKee's powerfully understated The Conquerors or Raymond Briggs's more overtly political commentary on the Falklands War in The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, picture books establish some of the basic socio-political tenets of politics.
