Ms. Wasserstein drew on her own experience as a smart, well-educated, funny Manhattanite who wasn't particularly lucky in romance to create heroines in a similar mold, women who embraced the essential tenets of the feminist movement but didn't have the stomach for stridency.
A social scientist recently calculated that, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as "the middle classes", merely a dozen or so socio-economic categories with some kind of affinity to what used to be thought of as the essential tenets of bourgeois life.
All major religions have changed so much over time, and sprouted so many branches, that a common rule of thumb is: if they say they're Muslim, Christian, or Buddhist and don't reject the most essential tenets of the faith, then that's what they are.
Regardless of the stem type, the essential tenets of long-term fixation and osseointegration remain obtaining adequate mechanical stability and intimate prosthesis contact with viable host bone.
Inside the main house, which was built in 1938, employees and volunteers work to protect one of the most essential tenets of American freedom: the First Amendment.
One of the essential tenets of conservatism is that the world will not race pell mell toward "progress," but instead repeat the past until lessons are learned.
Dr. T's actions constituted "repeated and serious breaches of many of the essential tenets of 'Good Medical Practice'".
The recognition of theoretical terms in the language of science by Carnap thus amounts to a rejection of an essential tenet of early logical empiricism and positivism, viz., the demonstration that all empirically significant sentences are translatable into an observation language.
The fatwa accuses Majidi and Rahman of sacrilege and calls for them to re-solemnise their marriages and re-read the kalima, an essential tenet of Islam.
Sojourners' campaigns manager, the Rev. Beau Underwood, said, "An essential tenet of Christianity is to love our neighbors".
