Sentence examples for precept to from inspiring English sources

For a precept to be fair, it must apply no matter who transgresses.

This came after almost all councils added the government's optional 2% social care precept to council tax bills.

Former chancellor George Osborne introduced a 2% precept to pay for care for the elderly and disabled.

In the spending review, the chancellor gave councils the power to levy a 2% precept to pay for social care.

The conservatives, heavily concentrated in the South, applied a strict construction to Scripture; this required a specific New Testament precept to authorize any practice.

Last year George Osborne, then chancellor, gave councils the power to increase council tax by 2% – a so-called "precept" – to help fund care homes and social care.

Eschewing irony, Mamet prefers his precepts to be literal and traditional.

Last year, Hud issued a series of precepts to ensure equity in its core housing programmes.

I have never before heard Ophelia so audible when Polonius delivers his precepts to her brother.

Oxford's Jonathan Glover sought to apply moral precepts to everyday life in his excellent book, Causing Death and Saving Lives.

He has now used the movement's precepts to make an entirely self-enclosed, willfully artificial and curiously stylized picture.