In any event, it is a basic precept of revised U.S. strategy in Afghanistan that international forces cannot "capture and kill" their way to victory.
"House demolitions constitute collective punishment, and are contrary to both international law and the basic precept of Israeli law that a person must not be punished for the acts of others," say the group.
For Athey, doing the right thing means hanging on to stocks even when they get pricey, a tactic contrary to the most basic precept of value investing.
They are also lending tacit approval to this wrongful practice and defying the most basic precept of medicine: Do no harm.
The basic precept of saving for contingency as advised for in the early step needs mastering.
This is in keeping with one of the basic precepts of the method, that grounded theories are modifiable in the event of new data coming to light.
And that's an attitude that flies in the face of the basic precepts of an egalitarian society.
Other countries can and do honor the beliefs of Islam without offending basic precepts of justice and intellectual honesty.
The first of the five basic precepts of Buddhist ethics is to avoid killing or harming any living thing.
