Sentence examples for precepts from from inspiring English sources

His own style, he said, combines precepts from Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Tai Chi.

Religious fanaticism can be difficult to picture if you're a Chinese believer inclined to pick and choose the most pragmatic precepts from Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Their daughters and sons were raised in accordance with precepts from another product of 1946, Benjamin Spock's parenting manual, which took a benign view of children's instinctual lives.

Mr. Nagl went on to write a book, "Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife," which took its title and many precepts from Lawrence of Arabia's lessons about desert fighting.

There was an English teacher who slipped precepts from the Tao Te Ching into his classes on the Bible and occasionally urged us to subvert standardized tests by answering every question with the word "five".

Cao Dai draws upon ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization (including a pope) from Roman Catholicism.

Rather than committing any extra exchequer funds, the chancellor announced he was giving permission to town halls to raise a social care precept from council tax to bridge the funding gap.

One such moment occurred when Eichmann claimed that in implementing the final solution, he was acting from obedience, and that he had derived this particular moral precept from his reading of Kant.

Short, middle-aged and unprepossessing, she has fought his way up from a hardscrabble childhood in provincial Peru, guided by a single precept from his dead father: "Never let anybody walk all over you, son".

Another laird, Aulay de Ardincaple, was invested on a precept from John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox, in the lands of Faslane adjoining Ardincaple in 1518.

The Golden Rule is an ethical precept from the New Testament (Matthew, Luke) counseling persons to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.