Sentence examples for enforcing precepts from inspiring English sources
Although some have spoken of Johnson as a "literary dictator," he rejected the role for himself and in general spoke against the notion of enforcing precepts.
The story of Muslim modernisation has sometimes been depicted as the efforts of a few potentates to enforce alien precepts on resistant populations.
Its preamble insists that it is every emperor's duty to enforce the sacred precepts of Roman law, for "the immortal gods themselves will favour and be at peace with the Roman name...if we have seen to it that all subject to our rule entirely lead a pious, religious, peaceable and chaste life in every respect".
It has to do with reinvigorating, and perhaps enforcing, what he sees as Christianity's nonnegotiable moral precepts.
But these need enforcing.
Over tens of thousands of years, members of our species have governed their lives by rules, discussing what precepts should be enforced.
Traditional or conventional morality tries to enforce unquestioning obedience to its precepts.
In Senate Impeachment Rule VI, the Senate "shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses, to enforce obedience to its orders, writs, precepts, and judgments...".. No mention is made of witness rights or privileges.
On one hand there is the risk of assuming an exclusively western ceteris paribus stance and incurring frank ethical imperialism as western precepts and standards are enforced (or perhaps more accurately inflicted) upon other groups with dissimilar needs, values, and norms.
Known as the Muṭawwaʿūn (colloquially, Muṭawwaʿīn), this force operates in plain clothes and enforces such Islamic precepts as ensuring that women are properly veiled, that shops close during prayer, and that the fast is kept during Ramadan.
