Sentence examples for apply precepts from inspiring English sources

This is almost a matter of national pride, even chauvinism: "As a rapidly rising major power, it is unacceptable that China does not have its own theory," wrote Qiu Yanping, a senior Communist Party man, in an article in 2009.So attempts to apply precepts devised by ancient Chinese philosophers to the modern world are in vogue.

The king is supposed to uphold Islam and apply its precepts and, in turn, is subject to its constraints.

Oxford's Jonathan Glover sought to apply moral precepts to everyday life in his excellent book, Causing Death and Saving Lives.

How do you apply moral precepts to situations unforeseen by those religious and philosophical traditions developed for another time and place?

Few question the coming electoral success of religious activists, but as they emerge from the shadows of a long, sometimes bloody struggle with authoritarian and ostensibly secular governments, they are confronting newly urgent questions about how to apply Islamic precepts to more open societies with very concrete needs.

Informed by the judge that they must apply the precepts, the councillors would not budge; early in September, Lansbury and 29 fellow-councillors were imprisoned for contempt of court.

Consider now how and where you can apply these precepts.

He said: "We were clearly the only ones playing with a straight bat and interested in applying the precepts of Scottish justice, which we continue to do and continue to uphold.

Given that Emma Restall Orr, the person she most criticises during the course of the article, has probably done more than anyone to explore just what pagan ethics might mean, this is tedious, quite apart from any issue of the lamentable record of the Catholic church of late in applying its precepts to its personnel.

Rigor in applying the precepts helps the organization break old thinking patterns and frees it to discover the dynamic forces for change emerging from alternative world situations.

That is the case for the petty violence and the sexism you describe: both violate fundamental precepts that apply in all times and all places.