And yet it owes a good part of its recent success to ignoring the tenet of nationalism that says a nation deserves to be independent if its population can muster a strong, shared sense of identity.
In Vietnam, the Tet offensive was widely considered a Western defeat (a mistaken judgment, in Mr. Hanson's view), partly because American planners "completely ignored the tenets of the entire Western military heritage"; the Western tradition of dissent, he suggests, also overwhelmed that heritage.
A major change in recent years, as more parties to conflict deliberately ignore the tenets of international humanitarian law.
If you just can't give up cow's milk, at the very least don't ignore the tenet of food combining.
Reinventing the wheel isn't about ignoring the defining tenets of what makes a wheel a wheel, it simply means building on what you've learned and making it better.
We are being slaughtered by those claiming to be Muslim but ignoring the most basic tenets of our faith, those forgetting the meaning of the words with which we begin every single prayer--calling on a most "compassionate" and "merciful" God.
From my perspective, however, being an environmentalist does not equal being a misanthrope, and Craighead's argument ignores the fundamental tenets of environmentalism.
When FDR ignored the Keynesian tenet that cutting spending in a downturn spells disaster, he paid dearly.
Such countries have ignored the fundamental tenet of justice inherent in Shariah Law, and have instead used Shariah as an excuse to gain power and sanction religious extremism.
When we only try to understand and affect what happens at work, we ignore the most basic tenet of person-organization fit: employees bring their whole selves to work.
