Sentence examples for precepts of a from inspiring English sources

His long bibliography includes a book of fictionalized stories ("Tales of Beatnik Glory") and epic-historical verse according to the precepts of a technique he calls "Investigative Poetry".

At Buena Vista he had had to fight defensively and react flexibly to emerging circumstances as opposed to following the precepts of a textbook.

The Elisabeth Badinter that most of those readers knew was the public Badinter, a woman of fierce propriety and convictions who would emerge from the archives at the first stirrings of dissension within the French feminist ranks and, armed with the precepts of a candlelit past, pronounce on what the proper republican response should be.

It is therefore ironic that until recently the U.S. military academies extensively taught the precepts of a French officer, David Galula, whose guidelines despite initial success in the 1950s in Algeria, were not followed by the French, but whom General David Petraeus, formerly Commander of the United States Central Command, called "the Clausewitz of counterinsurgency".

Having picked the least Romantic subject he could think of, he set it according to the precepts of a Russian maverick tradition that had been pioneered in the 1860's in a couple of strange works by Mussorgsky ("Marriage," after Gogol) and Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky ("The Stone Guest," after Pushkin).

Now I understand all about sanctity of contract, and I accept that it is one of the cornerstone precepts of a capitalist democracy, but this is too much.

The beautiful woman follows the precepts of an exotic, Minneapolis-based religious group.

And that's an attitude that flies in the face of the basic precepts of an egalitarian society.

The principal result – the optional social care council tax precept of a maximum 2%, taken up this month by most English councils concerned – has been welcomed, but judged barely enough to cover the costs of the "national living wage" for care workers.

The author asserted that the video metaphorically "attacked" the Church's demand for female compliance, indicted the Church's precept of a dichotomy between body and spirit, and at the same time assailed the Church's denial of female spirituality.

Nichol accomplishes a similar miracle in "frames," which neatly summarizes the basic precepts of metarealism using a series of crudely-framed primitive doodles.