Sentence examples for as a precept from inspiring English sources

She promoted environmentalism as a precept that gave individuals a stake in the perpetuation of a peaceable planet.

The Oxford Dictionary (1993) provides one definition of lore as 'A doctrine, a precept; a creed, a religion.' This is the definition adopted for this paper.

The charged offense: Supposed knowledge of errant, non-cash accounting, as dictated by a precept so meaningless it was done away with by the accounting authorities in 2005.

Language as national identity is a precept that extends to fundamental notions of nationalism.

Not so, says the United Synagogue, which defines the eruv as "a positive precept" of Jewish law.

In an eerie parallel with the child-protective efforts, "the best interests of the corporation" was soon introduced as a legal precept.

Appiah remains skeptical of simple maxims for ethical behavior — like the Golden Rule, whose failings as a moral precept he swiftly demonstrates — and argues that cosmopolitanism is the name not "of the solution but of the challenge".

Furthermore, the imposition of gender equality as a fundamental precept was only ever relevant to the world of work – partly, one assumes, because the party did not want to go head to head against the Catholic church if it could avoid it, and partly because identity politics held no interest for Soviet ideology.

As a basic precept, getting out of the way of innovation is generally a good thing.

This doctrine was introduced as a methodological precept for the social sciences by Max Weber, most importantly in the first chapter of Economy and Society (1922).

To start with, it must be noted that long before the verification principle proper entered Circle's discourse in the late 1920s, the thought expressed by Mach's dictum that "where neither confirmation nor refutation is possible, science is not concerned" (1883 [1960, 587]) was accepted as a basic precept of critical reflection about science.