Sentence examples for precepts and principles from inspiring English sources

"This demonstrates a unified and genuine effort on behalf of Iran to change the political atmosphere while adhering to the basic precepts and principles of the Islamic Republic and the inalienable right of Iran to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes".

Well, one is to "restore the supremacy of the tenants [sic], precepts and principles contained in and established by the Ten Commandments".

Preempted offers of compromise, without an indication of what Obama will NOT COMPROMISE, is a prescription for political disaster and surrender of what should be otherwise non-negotiable political precepts and principles.

Unfortunately to justify your over the top support of Obama, you've violated your own precept and principle on when and under what conditions a late term abortion can and should be permitted.

The aristocracy embraced Buddhism as the religion for spiritual fulfillment and personal happiness and Confucianism for its political precepts and ethical principles.

He studied Stoic philosophy in his youth, and as an old man wrote down his governing precepts and ethical principles -- little reminders to himself not to be swayed by ambition, to accept fate, to shoulder manfully the burdens of public service.

It is common for many Reiki teachers and practitioners to abide by these five precepts, or principles.

As we will see, Mill thinks that much moral reasoning should be governed by secondary precepts or principles about such things as fidelity, fair play, and honesty that make no direct reference to utility but whose general observance does promote utility.

The conflicts in Plato's case and in Sartre's case arose because there is more than one moral precept (using 'precept' to designate rules and principles), more than one precept sometimes applies to the same situation, and in some of these cases the precepts demand conflicting actions.

In Judaism, progress in the knowledge of Torah is focused in the Bible and the Talmud (commentaries on the Law), guided by the twin hermeneutical (critical interpretive) principles of Halakha (the oral precepts and decisions of the rabbis) and of Haggada (instructive stories, parables, and other similar devices).

That said, a lot of people on my side are arguing from flawed principles based on political and emotional rather than rational precepts, and they should stop doing that posthaste.