Geoff Hunt, founder of the meditation movement New Buddha Way, told VICE News that: "The very first of many precepts for Buddhist monks is the precept against violence, of which verbal abuse is a variant".
Mr. Nagl went on to write a book, "Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife," which took its title and many precepts from Lawrence of Arabia's lessons about desert fighting.
Research in remote rural schools revealed that stakeholders were unable and unwilling to adopt many of the precepts of the new curriculum.
It is hard to imagine many of the essential precepts of the modern game: pressing, the understanding of space as the game's crucial element, the positional flexibility that enables attackers to defend and defenders to attack whenever the need arises.
It sounds trivial, but that kind of elegant experience and low price fundamentally undoes many of the basic precepts of the old way of looking at things.
These rules have never even passed the sniff test of legitimacy because they violate many of the basic precepts of due process.
Back then, and even today, the elementary task of properly serving draft beer seemed beyond many bars, which seem oblivious to the precepts of maintaining cleanliness and freshness.
I wonder how so many smart Americans can embrace the disconnected random precepts of either party.
The viewpoint underlying this assertion that the scope of human rights in any given society should be determined fundamentally by local, national, or regional customs and traditions may seem problematic, especially when one considers that the idea of human rights and many of its precepts are found in all the great philosophical and religious traditions.
Members of several small Christian sects who try to follow literally the precepts of Jesus have refused to participate in military service in many countries and have been willing to suffer the criminal or civil penalties that followed.
