Sentence examples for principal tenet from inspiring English sources

The principal tenet of the proposed reforms was the concept of dyarchy essentially, dual government.

Long after he had finished writing his novels, he fell under the influence of primitive (prechurch) Christianity, the principal tenet of which was the brotherhood of all humans.

Today, a principal tenet of geology is that a vast majority of the world's oil arose not from lumbering beasts on land but tiny organisms at sea.

The principal tenet of Germany's economic system is the way in which capital, labour and the state have organised their relationship.

DRT's principal tenet is that it should be the starting point for semantic theory, too.

A principal tenet of the Coulomb hypothesis is that stress increases promote, and decreases inhibit fault failure.

"One of our principal tenets is to capture all the movements of the face," Mr. Wood said.

An obituary on May 7 about Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement, misstated or misinterpreted some of its principal tenets.

One of Rastafari's principal tenets is the smoking of marijuana, which it names "herb", endowing it with Biblical sanction, as in Psalm 104: "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man".

In short, the fear is taking root that the financial crisis will undermine the principal tenets of western-style global liberalism and encourage a retrenchment in US and European diplomacy.

"One of the principal tenets of the administration and of ourselves is we have got to do this fast," Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, said Wednesday.