Sentence examples for standard precepts from inspiring English sources

At the very least, it appears that the formation of immune memory to chlamydia infection, among those frequently exposed, may not fit the standard precepts of infection and acquired immunity.

We independently tested the reactivity of Math5 antibodies to mouse and human proteins expressed at high levels in transfected NIH3T3 cells, by Western blotting, and to retinal sections from wild-type and Math5 mutant embryos (Figure S2), following standard precepts [39], [40].

Moreover, faith in the judgment of the common voter is a standard precept of modern liberal democratic ideology that most of us imbibe from elementary school onwards.

Vaccines for EIDs thus present a unique paradigm to standard development precepts.

Meanwhile tens of thousands of U.S. and allied troops will need to provide security for Afghanistan's population, following the more standard counterinsurgency precepts of Mr. Kilcullen's model.

As one would expect from the considerations sketched in the preceding paragraph, his actual arguments about what is right and wrong, virtuous or vicious, get their premises not from analysis of the virtues at stake but rather from the principles and more specific standards, norms, precepts or rules of practical reason ableness).

The state said its action was justified "because the motion picture attractively portrays a relationship" -- adultery -- "which is contrary to the moral standards, the religious precepts and the legal code of its citizenry".

1201 - c. 1249 Freidank, (flourished 13th century) German didactic poet whose work became regarded as a standard repository of moral precepts.

But it is primarily on acts qua intended, or on the acts (e.g. of taking care) that one ought to have intended, that ethical standards (moral principles and precepts) bear.

On one hand there is the risk of assuming an exclusively western ceteris paribus stance and incurring frank ethical imperialism as western precepts and standards are enforced (or perhaps more accurately inflicted) upon other groups with dissimilar needs, values, and norms.

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.