Sentence examples for precepts on from inspiring English sources

That was why the West embraced the concept of a separation of church and state to begin with, because every attempt by one religion or ideology to dictate its precepts on others led to only greater problems.

While this stance may have endeared the country to the rest of the African Union – where it seeks to be a significant player – it reveals a troubling contradiction: signatory to the Statute on the one hand, while flirting with those who seek to defy its precepts on the other.

Comment on the Dale Carnegie Game, a thing of pawns, dice and chips, which proceeds along the liner of the Master's precepts on the subject.

Even without such media trolling, which must hugely delight the drinks industry, the chief medical officer's exhortations conflict with earlier Tory precepts on reforming unhealthy lifestyles.

The story of Muslim modernisation has sometimes been depicted as the efforts of a few potentates to enforce alien precepts on resistant populations.

Physical and medical problems are discussed in "Precepts on Health," "On the Face of the Moon's Disk," and "On Primary Cold" (which argues that cold is something real, not the mere absence of warmth).

Dr. Durkee and scores of other volunteers and staff members from the museum and elsewhere crowded into a meeting room to hear advice from the museum director, Warren D. Allmon, on ways to deal with visitors who reject settled precepts of science on religious grounds.

The segment begins (on p. 43b in the standard Vilnius edition) with a very early but somewhat extra-canonical rabbinic teaching, saying: "All are obligated in the commandment of the fringes [the tassels worn, by biblical precept, on the corners of one's garment] - Priests, Levites, and Israelites in general, converts, women, and bondmen...".

But the bishops are also wrestling with a troublesome problem that has no parallel in the civil system: how much can a church founded on precepts of forgiveness be seen as foreclosing the possibility of redemption?

That leaves potential buyers to rely on legal precepts of fair use in portraying them, or on their assurances that they will not seek to interfere with a movie.

Osborne said the new "social care precept" on council tax could see £2bn more go into the system.