Sentence examples for authoritative precepts from inspiring English sources

Following the pattern of an intuitive human behavior becoming a set of rules, this developed into authoritative precepts: coq au vin must have mushrooms, pearl onions, lardons of bacon, and good red wine.

(The Pharisees stressed rigorous observance of the Law, inclusion of the oral tradition as normative, and an interpretative adaptation of traditional precepts to new situations; the Sadducees, an elitist conservative group, accepted only the Written Law as authoritative and were more literalist and static in their interpretation).

Eschew precepts of time.

A few precepts.

Authoritative! Hidebound!

He was authoritative.

But violating constitutional precepts?

Authoritative editions.

Authoritative and impressive.

Stalin deviated from these precepts.

These precepts no longer apply.