Sentence examples for precept will be from inspiring English sources

Snow said: "Even though we understand that over 90% of local authorities have opted to implement the full 2% increase in 2016/17, it remains unclear both how this additional funding will be spent and to what extent the full precept will be raised in future years.

He is pressing local MPs, who happen to include the chancellor, Philip Hammond, to call for a review of the formula for allocating government grants – to better reflect the needs of Surrey's population – and to not only confirm that the social care precept will be available next April, but to allow councils to set it as high as they choose.

In contrast, the five councils that will raise the most, if they use the precept, will be in wealthy areas such as Richmond upon Thames, south London (£14.90-a-head); City of London (£14.40); Rutland in Leicestershire (£13.80); Wokingham, Berkshire (£13.50) and West Berkshire (£13.10).

Whether or not the use of a score in a QAT is necessary for further development of PRECEPT will be one aspect to be discussed and evaluated later.

It would be possible to include these paradigm examples of moral precepts, e.g., do not kill, do not lie, and help the needy, in the normative definition of morality, but it not necessary to do so, because the proposed definition is sufficient to guarantee that these paradigm moral precepts will be part of morality.

We have allowed local authorities to raise a social care precept, which will be delivering another £2bn a year by the end of this parliament.

Jowell's team calculates that the London repayments on the Olympic Games will require just £25m before completion, meaning the Olympic precept worth £61m will be available entirely for Sure Start from 2017-18.

Send in more ground forces, verse them in the kid-glove precepts of counterinsurgency and all will be well.

Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.

Carolan thinks the upcoming document will be deeply rooted in the moral precepts of the church, including humanity's role as stewards of the environment and the teachings of Jesus to care for the poor and downtrodden.

It's about whether we will be a society based on the precepts of radical conservative social Darwinism, or a society rooted in the progressive values that have always defined the promise of America.