Dressed in saffron robes, they wait patiently with their begging bowls, a reminder that Thailand is dedicated to the high moral precepts of Buddhism.
By this scheme, the highest ordered precept always prevails, the second prevails unless it conflicts with the first, and so on.
In "The Rug: It Shrank!" he comments on the almost imperceptible changes over time to the interior of Philip Johnson's classic Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., a monument to the seemingly immutable precepts of high Modernism.
Through its initiative "Academic Impact", the United Nations seeks a commitment on the part of research-intensive institutions of higher education to "the fundamental precepts driving the United Nations mandate, in particular the realization of the universally determined Millennium Development Goals" [ 151].
And she is typically shod in footgear whose platform soles are so high that they defy both the precepts of feminism and the laws of gravity (and the latter not always successfully; she has been known to tumble from the heights of her specially made Christian Louboutins).
(One of Johnson's managers in the majors was future Hall of Famer Earl Weaver, who managed according to a number of what would become sabermetric precepts, including an emphasis on high-scoring innings rather than one-run strategies).
Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver also operated according to a number of concepts that would become sabermetric precepts, including an emphasis on high-scoring innings rather than on one-run strategies.
The narrative fits a commonsense precept among education reformers: that higher expectations lead to better outcomes.
Additionally, the staff nurses who were exposed to a moderate or substantial increase in EBP activities on the VANA unit and those who precepted nursing students had significantly higher odds of program satisfaction than did those who were not so exposed, although the odds ratios tended to be a little smaller than those for the other exposure variables.
On the other hand, preceptors are expected to balance complex patient care with precepting of high quality [ 2].
