Sentence examples for foundational precept from inspiring English sources

With the construction of the basilica, Franciscan poverty, the order's foundational precept, became a pious fiction.

As the country lurches ever onward toward greater centralized bureaucratic control, the foundational precept of Rule of Law is quietly being replaced with Rule of Rules.

But what should the foundational principle be?

I want foundational health.

He's foundational.

"RISC was foundational," Andreessen says.

This is a foundational change".

This is a foundational move.

"He was foundational to me.

They're foundational ordeals, mentioned incessantly.

Every august institution has its foundational myths.