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canons

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Plural of canon

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Although its ostensible purpose was to mend personal fences with Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions minister, the episcopal posting acknowledged the need for a massive overhaul of the benefits system, in language that showed no respect for the canons of the centre-left.

The fact that government's workings could easily and unobtrusively be changed was accounted a virtue: Britain escaped the ancestor worship that fixed canons like America's imposed.

You can be pretty sure that on the day some catastrophe forces mankind to flee planet Earth and colonise the moon, Orthodox clergy will be studying the church canons to see who has primacy on lunar soil and disagreeing.

It feels affinity with dreams yet resists the sort of interpretive canons that Freud devised for them.

Their first duty is to serve the people who are paying their salaries, so long as they stay within the law and the canons of ordinary decency.

Mr Sen wants to humanise canons of "maximising" rationality; behavioural economists, much in fashion, aim to ditch them altogether.

MALAYSIA responded to the financial crisis of 1997-98 by violating one of the most sacred canons of economic orthodoxy: it imposed exchange controls.

Parliament then passed an oath of loyalty in which English Catholics were asked to disown the pope and most of the canons of Catholic belief, or face losing two-thirds of their worldly goods.

Where nothing original remained, "authentic" features were painted back, but in accordance with the canons of modern restoration by methods that are reversible.The main questionmark against the "Last Supper" is not so much the detail of what was or was not done, but the necessity for undertaking such an elaborate, extensive campaign in the first place.

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(See the entry on the Mohist Canons).

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