Sentence examples for Underlying precepts from inspiring English sources

They are all to be found in Confessions, and while few would accept them as inviolate today, the underlying precepts of clarity, straightforwardness and common sense cannot be faulted.

The underlying precepts remained unchanged in later works like "Breaking Down the Wall of Silence" (1991) and "Free From Lies: Discovering Your True Needs" (2009).

Indeed, Mr. Willes's determination to challenge the underlying precepts of the news business has made him a controversial internal critic in an industry more accustomed to criticism from outsiders.

Application of the molecular precepts underlying half molecule exchange between IgG4 molecules to IgG1 scaffolds offers the possibility to produce bispecific antibodies in vitro.

This chapter provides many examples of computational imaging as applied to the following ideas: breaking precepts underlying photography, imaging at novel form factors and capabilities, and providing tractable solutions to inverse problems.

Indeed, in our view, precepts underlying the business judgment rule militate against a court's engaging in the process of attempting to appraise and evaluate the relative merits of a long-term versus a short-term investment goal for shareholders.

In a system of divine command ethics, human beings are obliged to do what God asks them to do because God commands it, not because there is some underlying system of absolute goodness that ethical precepts should ideally mirror.

In terms of morals and ethics, it tends to stress the external observance of laws and precepts, with lesser concern for the ultimate principles underlying moral conduct.

The value of a business [482 F.3d 632] is a mixed question of fact and law, with the underlying factual findings reviewed for clear error and the court's choice of legal precepts and application of those precepts to the facts reviewed de novo.

The potential appointment of ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, a man with considerable ties to Russia, as secretary of state reinforces the sense that the Trump White House will abandon some of the more idealistic precepts that underlie — if not always guide — American foreign policy.

She labelled the tightly integrated sets of moral precepts that underlie these two systems as the guardian and commercial moral syndromes (table 1).