One of my coaching tenets is that a team can and should attack without the ball, as well as with it.
The obvious point that we are fallible, we are imperfect, because we are mortal took some time to sink into my teenage brain, but that simply stated truth eventually became one of my guiding tenets over the intervening 55 years and remains so today.
But it had to have, since it's given me one of my only uncompromising tenets.
"I cannot deny the tenets of my faith," Mr. Hagee wrote.
(Perhaps having anticipated the question, however, Mr. Gibson supplied his own answer, saying, "It goes against the tenets of my faith to be racist in any form").
I am a member of the clergy (I will not identify the denomination), and I no longer believe in the tenets of my faith; indeed, I am an atheist.
After all, that is one of the tenets of my alma mater, Wellesley College.
I cannot deny the tenets of my faith.
But it had to have, since it's given me one of my my only uncompromising tenets.
