Sentence examples for a precept of from inspiring English sources
I would have ten kids," he beams, and that is a precept of his religious faith.
No, this is not a precept of the faith of the most famous Mormon in rock.
Rogers, a leading foreign policy hawk, said he was happy for Bergdahl's family but insisted that the deal violated a precept of US foreign policy.
Ken Kesey, the author of that great American novel of mental illness "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," once cited with approval a precept of his father's: "Good writing ain't necessarily good reading".
Vernon's insistence on "natural handling," on making every move look casual rather than "presentational" — like a man handling cards rather than like a magician handling props — is a precept of modern magic.
Around the country, some judges have defeated efforts to force them to disqualify themselves over political contributions, saying it is a precept of judicial independence that judges decide whether they can rule fairly.
To think the abstract concretely, a precept reminiscent of the 18th-century philosophers, was also the aim of the 20th-century philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty when they naturalized Existentialist thought in France.
This week, in a federal courtroom, I've heard a series of government witnesses testify behind a screen while expounding on a central precept of the national security state: The CIA can do no wrong.
To understand why stress during adolescence may affect performance in high-threat but not in low-threat conditions, we discuss our findings in the framework of the Yerkes-Dodson law, a key precept of psychology that has been used for over a century to describe how stress affects performance.
In order to design a curriculum that teaches what truly matters, educators should remember a basic precept of modern developmental science: developmental precursors don't always resemble the skill to which they are leading.
Despite the flurry of activity, he's rarely more than a few sentences away from talking about "being in the moment," a key precept of the 12-step recovery program he's followed since his drug and alcohol consumption threatened to derail his career in the early 2000s.
