He repeats after the officiating monk the Ten Precepts and vows to observe them.
The failure of senior scientists to observe the precepts of community, respect, and altruism, she believes, has deprived some young scientists of the opportunity to learn the rules and practices of ethical research and has undermined the situation of many early-career scientists in today's opportunity-starved research scene.
The more pious laymen may vow to observe the eight precepts for the duration of the uposatha.
Her opponents accused her of antinomianism the view that God's grace has freed the Christian from the need to observe established moral precepts.
In ancient Buddhism, lay persons were encouraged, but not obliged, to commit themselves to observe these Five Precepts of morality.
Laymen are to observe the first five precepts (pañca-sīla) at all times.
All public bodies are meant to observe the "Nolan rules", precepts of the committee on standards on public life, set up by John Major and now chaired by Sir Nigel Wicks.
But even among those who freely chose to worship in church, synagogue, temple or mosque where that precept is held, there is typically a lively debate over whether it is possible for all human persons regardless of orientation to observe the tri-covenantal aspect of sacramental or religious marriage.
Eschewing irony, Mamet prefers his precepts to be literal and traditional.
You just need some simple precepts to tell the good from the bad.
These include the five precepts normally observed by all Buddhists not to kill, steal, lie, take intoxicants, or commit sexual offenses, which came to entail complete sexual continence as well as injunctions against eating food after noon, attending entertainments or wearing bodily adornments, and sleeping on a luxurious bed.
