The treatment of breast cancer involves multiple disciplines, and current recommendations are based on modern tenets of biology and pharmacology along with a growing body of evidence-based literature.
Freud's hesitation about treating deeply disturbed patients with analysis is a tenet modern psychiatry still embraces.
Peer review is a central tenet of modern academic science, and, according to critics, the new bill threatens to supersede it with politics.
When Trump says that Washington has failed the country, he is merely restating a central tenet of modern conservatism.
Particle physicists cried foul, saying that this violated a basic tenet of modern science and of quantum theory, that information is always preserved.
As I look back at those turbulent decades, I see a time of challenge to a basic tenet of modern society: faith in reason.
After dismissing Mr. Williams, who was one of its senior news analysts, NPR argued that he had violated the organization's belief in impartiality, a core tenet of modern American journalism.
Minchin's targets may seem like straw men, but his views stem from scientific skepticism, a modern movement whose central tenet is that the world can be explained by means of empirical data.
Like mani-pedis and bikini waxes before it, blowout service has gone from being an upper-class indulgence, or something attempted with iffy results in the privacy of one's bathroom, to an expected tenet of modern urban grooming.
Indeed, it seems to have become a tenet of modern egalitarianism that the fairest way to apportion scarce resources, whether nursery-school places or postseason tickets, is according to people's deftness in handling the speed-dial button.
