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"observe the precepts" is a correct and usable sentence in written English
The phrase can be used when you want to say that someone should adhere to certain instructions or rules. For example, you might say: "In order to truly live a moral life, it is important to observe the precepts set forth by our religion."
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These nonprofit religious charities may still want to draw on spiritual motivation, maintain ties to fellow believers, provide a spur and a vehicle for that community's generosity and observe the precepts of their traditions.
The failure of senior scientists to observe the precepts of community, respect, and altruism, she believes, has deprived some young scientists of the opportunity to learn the rules and practices of ethical research and has undermined the situation of many early-career scientists in today's opportunity-starved research scene.
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A religious folktale and a Judaicized version of the story of the grateful dead, it relates how, a pious Jew exiled to Nineveh in Assyria, observed the precepts of Hebrew Law by giving alms and by burying the dead.
Since, however, meditation on the Torah "night and day" was a practical impossibility, the Shema became a substitute for Torah study or, more exactly, the minimum requirement for observing the precept.
The more pious laymen may vow to observe the eight precepts for the duration of the uposatha.
Laymen are to observe the first five precepts (pañca-sīla) at all times.
And it may just have found another in Paddy Campbell, not least because he has observed the chief precept for any young writer – which is to go and do something interesting first.
Occasionally, such as during the fortnightly fast day, they may observe eight precepts (aṣṭā-sīla; the first nine, with the seventh and eight combined as one).
Keep the Precepts.
They deplore that some vaccinators use the police to force them to vaccinate their children, and say that the vaccinators should leave parents free to make their own choices, observing the tenets of their faith or biblical precepts.
Her opponents accused her of antinomianism the view that God's grace has freed the Christian from the need to observe established moral precepts.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com