The phrase "a central precept" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a fundamental principle or rule that is essential to a particular belief system or framework.
Example: "In our organization, a central precept is the commitment to sustainability in all our practices."
Alternatives: "a key principle" or "a fundamental tenet".
— privatization — had become a central precept of the conservative movement.
The great pleasure of "Millennium Skiva" was its distillation of a central precept of dance: that the physically impossible is achievable.
But by the time Ronald Reagan became President the overriding principle that had guided their actions at the O.E.O. privatization had become a central precept of the conservative movement.
A central precept of this approach is the recognition that while "election laws will invariably impose some burden upon individual voters... common sense, as well as constitutional law, compels the conclusion that government must play an active role in structuring elections... if they are to be fair and honest and if some sort of order, rather than chaos, is to accompany the democratic processes".
For the next six-plus decades the FCC ran under a central precept: Bandwidth is scarce, and government must parcel it out carefully to protect the public interest.
And in so doing, Silas, confronts and challenges a central precept of art--that art by and large be envisioned as a means for staving off the human obsession with death, even rendering humankind immortal in historical terms.
Her success in the White House has had as much to do with her comfort with herself as with what might be her central precept: never believe that there is a room you have no right to walk into.
I lie awake on my jhilli, thinking of Maase's protracted sadness, listening to the drums and the sounds of protracted happiness from the grounds, and thinking about Charu Mazumdar's idea of protracted war, the central precept of the Maoist Party.
In Economy and Society, Weber articulates the central precept of methodological individualism in the following way: When discussing social phenomena, we often talk about various "social collectivities, such as states, associations, business corporations, foundations, as if they were individual persons"(Weber 1922, 13).
The sacred texts of Hinduism define abortion as violating the central precept of non-violence.
It also sits awkwardly, I feel, with a key precept of multiculturalism, namely the recognition, valorization and support of diversity.
