The phrase "a major tenet" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it to describe an important, established principle or belief. For example: "Honesty is a major tenet of my life philosophy."
He was also severely critical of the German bishops who aligned themselves with the papacy solely because of their political and economic interests, observing that disentanglement from such interests was a major tenet of the reform.
It thus became a major tenet of liberal political philosophy that war could be eliminated by introducing universal suffrage because the people would surely vote out of office any belligerently inclined government.
Politically, The Case Against 8 underscores a major tenet of the marriage equality movement: that the sole civil rights issue of our time centers around middle-class homosexuals who want to get married.
"From a practical standpoint," Mr. Rubio wrote in The New York Post about the health care rule, "this will force Catholic organizations to make an unacceptable choice: Ignore a major tenet of their faith, or not provide any insurance to their employees and be punished with a federal fine for violating Obamacare's mandate on employers".
A major tenet of the revolution has been leveling the playing field for all Cubans, and its defenders point to racism that was a striking feature of the country before 1959, but also to what they say are many black doctors, scientists and intellectuals.
April 15 , 1772Étampes, France June 19 , 1844Paris, France Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, (born April 15 , 1772 Étampes, Fr. died June 19 , 1844 Paris) French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition," postulating a single consistent structural plan basic to all animals as a major tenet of comparative anatomy, and who founded teratology, the study of animal malformation.
A catchphrase and major tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous, it's also provided for me a way of looking at life that recognizes that life goes on, whether we like it or not.
As geologic phenomena became understandable in terms of advancing physics, chemistry, and biology, the reality of the principle of uniformity as a major philosophical tenet of geology became established, and the controversy between catastrophists and uniformitarians largely ended.
At any rate, this finding challenges a major DUI tenet: in hitherto known DUI systems, three main mechanisms have been proposed to account for a higher sequence variability of M vs. F mtDNA, namely enhanced replication rate during spermatogenesis, free-radical damage to sperm, or the effect of the smaller population size of the M genome (see [ 13] for details).
But, once again, this major tenet of Republicanism is showing itself to be a house made of straw.
The major tenet of this approach is to build up a complete likelihood function as if missing information or latent variables are known.
