Sentence examples for precept of his from inspiring English sources

I would have ten kids," he beams, and that is a precept of his religious faith.

Instead of breathing heavily and shouting the implications of his theory, he follows the precept of his subtitle and explores the little things that make a big difference.

Ken Kesey, the author of that great American novel of mental illness "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," once cited with approval a precept of his father's: "Good writing ain't necessarily good reading".

In the field he stressed to his generals the precepts of his mentors the importance and effectiveness of clemency toward the conquered.

They had never published anything like what Baehrel had in mind — a coffee-table book outlining the precepts of his Native Harvest cuisine — but they thought, Why not try?

While not following the precepts of his great predecessors, Robert Louis Stevenson and Conan Doyle, who set some of their most memorable books in London with English protagonists, there is never any sense of parochialism about his novels featuring his bloody-minded copper Jack Rebus, who rarely moves out of his stamping ground in Edinburgh.

This is honorable but infuriating, and so is his refusal to take a public stand on the war in Iraq while our soldiers are deployed there, though precepts of his that emerge in "The Fog of War" take clear issue with the Bush Administration's planning and prosecution of our latest might of arms.

Following the precepts of his mentor, Calvin S. Hall — a psychologist who published a popular book, "The Meaning of Dreams," in 1953 — Domhoff believes that researchers, rather than analyzing individual dreams, should evaluate a person's dreams over time, and quantify how often certain themes, characters, and emotions appear in them.

The grounding precepts of his faith were undermined from the perspective of a different orbit. .

The specific beliefs and precepts of his faith were reduced to a mockery from the perspective of a different orbit.

To his students Ho seemed to embody these qualities, and the teaching of his precepts later became a distinguishing feature of the Vietnamese revolution.