Sentence examples for precepts and practice from inspiring English sources

A White House spokesman said the corpse was prepared for burial "in conformance with Islamic precepts and practice", then placed in a weighted bag and dropped into the water from the vessel's deck.

The process was done "in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices," Brennan later told reporters.

"The disposal of — the burial of Bin Laden's remains was done in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices," said John O. Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, who added that the administration had consulted with Islamic experts.

AFTER Osama bin Laden's corpse was slipped into the North Arabian Sea, the White House's chief counterterrorism adviser declared that the United States had buried him "in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices".

According to Bozdogan (2010), Lean comes closest to providing a holistic view of company management systems by embodying a tightly knit set of mutually supportive precepts and practices driving its central value creating operations (Sunjka and Murphy 2014).

Of the many theories proffered for the steady rise of spirituality without borders, one factor should rank at or near the top of the list, yet is seldom mentioned: access to the precepts and practices we associate with Hinduism and Buddhism.

In particular, he derived from early Islamic precept and practice the idea of a representative assembly that could check the unbridled power of the sultan and his ministers.

He sets up examples for students with both precept and practice.

Discussions within the field of public health have addressed how to incorporate ethical precepts into practice and research and recognition of the need for increased dialogue such as represented by this CEHN project (Callahan and Jennings 2002).

The population was registered; a land tax (based on the nature of the crops and the amount of arable land) was instituted and revised triennially; new penal and civil codes were drawn up utilizing Confucian moral precepts; and, following the practices of the Chinese Ming dynasty (1368 1644), hortatory works of Confucian moral precepts were periodically read in every village in the country.

This tract led to Steele's being accused of hypocrisy and mocked for the contrast between his austere precepts and his genially convivial practice.