Sentence examples for chief tenet from inspiring English sources

She says she feels that the chief tenet of the Hippocratic Oath -- do no harm -- is being violated.

Neogrammarian, German Junggrammatiker, any of a group of German scholars that arose around 1875; their chief tenet concerning language change was that sound laws have no exceptions.

The chief tenet of the New Criticism was that you could pry meaning out of any sort of mysterious parlance, especially if Ezra Pound had written it.

Jim Grant, a "lefty lawyer" from upstate New York, has kidnapped his daughter, Isabel, to short-circuit her mother's custody suit -- either that or to prove its chief tenet.

Long before Sleeper, though, it was Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce, the bass player and drummer in the Smiths, who invented the chief tenet of the Sleeper Bloke: let the mouthy eejit up front do all the talking.

Behind Powell sat CIA chief Tenet, and U.S. UN chief John Negroponte, their eyes downcast and hooded, looking like high churchmen at mass.

The host of one of the theatres we visit proudly explains how an old-fashioned parquet floor has been replaced with modern rubber, convenience and durability being chief tenets of the Juche ideology.

Mohandas grew up in a home steeped in Vaishnavism worship of the Hindu god Vishnu with a strong tinge of Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion whose chief tenets are nonviolence and the belief that everything in the universe is eternal.

The chief tenets to be absorbed by the Iraqis include acceptance of civilian control of the military and the establishment of a police force "in support of the people, not in support of the regime," he said, noting that such shifts in attitude take time.

Avempace's chief philosophical tenets seem to have included belief in the possibility that the human soul could become united with the Divine.

In a letter to Trevor Fetter, the acting chief executive of Tenet, Senator Charles E. Grassley, the committee's chairman, criticized Tenet as a company with a "sordid corporate history" that had repeatedly fallen into scandal.