Sentence examples for precepts which describe from inspiring English sources

Astonishment, fluidity and changefulness are inherently resistant to precepts which describe how they come about, and these things are Montaigne's stock-in-trade.

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The Precepts of Chiron, the Astronomy, the Ornithomanteia ("Divination by Birds"), the Melampodeia, which described a contest between two seers, and the Aigimios are today little more than names.

The rise is because police and fire authority precepts which form part of the total tax demand are going up.

Perhaps Aristoxenus' most interesting work on Pythagoreanism is the Pythagorean Precepts, which is known primarily through substantial excerpts preserved by Stobaeus (Frs. 33 41 Wehrli).

The two most important systems of moral discipline in Buddhism are the Five Precepts, which apply to lay people, and the Vows of Individual Liberation (Skt. prātimokṣa) which apply to monks and nuns.

This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere.

He chose 13 virtues he would strive to practice "and annexed to each a short precept which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning".

The government has introduced both the social-care precept, which allows councils to add 2% to council tax bills to pay for social care, and the £5.3bn Better Care Fund.

We have allowed local authorities to raise a social care precept, which will be delivering another £2bn a year by the end of this parliament.

The authority decided to freeze the policing element of the council tax precept which entitled it to a government cash incentive of about £3.3m.