Sentence examples for formal precepts from inspiring English sources
(Kehr) 'The Return of Nick Zedd' (Friday and Saturday) Along with colleagues like Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern, Mr. Zedd was one of the movers and shakers of the New York underground of the 1980s, a group that rejected the formal precepts of structuralism in favor of a Dionysian celebration of sex and violence.
It is there that Osama received his first formal education in the precepts of violent jihad.
And, although I did not join any formal group, the egalitarian precepts of feminism seemed like innate truth.
But he rejects this option because "the Kantian maxim" (whatever that is) is purely formal and because no "material precept" "has obtained the universal consent of moralists".
It was in this upstairs dormitory, a schoolmate of bin Laden's told me, that a young Syrian physical-education teacher led an after-school Islamic study group for a few outstanding boys, and it was there, beginning at about age fourteen, that bin Laden received his first formal education in some of the precepts of violent jihad.
No!… Every rational being would still have to recognize himself as forever strictly bound to the precepts of morals; for its laws are formal and command unconditionally without regard to ends" (5:451).
Formal political activity was banned in Saudi Arabia, so the Brotherhood-influenced teachers often introduced their students informally to precepts of Islamic activism and violent jihad.
But violating constitutional precepts?
Câmara followed these precepts; during his tenure as bishop he never lived in the episcopal palace, and he wore a simple brown cassock and a wooden cross in place of the formal garb and gold cross of a bishop.
Stalin deviated from these precepts.
