Sentence examples for by a single precept from inspiring English sources

Short, middle-aged and unprepossessing, she has fought his way up from a hardscrabble childhood in provincial Peru, guided by a single precept from his dead father: "Never let anybody walk all over you, son".

Nuñez is the finest Ashtonian dancer of her generation, and here she seemed to have taken Frederick Ashton's precepts, inspired by a single, never-to-be-forgotten performance by Anna Pavlova, and applied them to the arctic choreography of Balanchine.

This illustrates the tremendous worldwide influence a single legal precept can have.

Stoichioproteomics derives a number of specific hypotheses from a single core precept: that limitation in an element leads to purifying selection in order to reduce the usage of amino acids needing that element in protein sequences or their expression.

A defeat by a single goal likewise.

Games were officiated by a single umpire.

Houellebecq squeaked it by a single vote.

Juve leads by a single point.

(Mr. Hagel lost by a single vote).

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Steering was controlled by a single rudder.