Sentence examples for strict tenets from inspiring English sources

Of more importance was the religious instruction he received from his parents according to the strict tenets of Dutch Calvinism.

The new laws, for instance, would not ban education of females or impose other strict tenets espoused by the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Key concerns for Miské are the future of multiculturalism (as contentious an issue in France as it is in this country) and implacable religious belief that allows no dissent from its strict tenets.

But as the Indonesian state has become increasingly unable to look after basic needs -- the unemployment rate is about 20percentt -- growing numbers of Indonesians are finding some of the stricter tenets of Saudi Arabia's Islam more attractive.

The staunch Calvinists endeavoured to hold the Reformed Church to the strict orthodoxy expounded by Franciscus Gomarus, a Leiden professor of theology, against the broader, less rigorous tenets upheld by his colleague Jacobus Arminius.

The militants have kept a stranglehold on the area for months, killing local police officers and officials and punishing residents who do not adhere to strict Islamic tenets.

The principal Islamist militia, known as Ansar Dine, or Defenders of the Faith, has imposed harsh Shariah law based on strict Islamic tenets and enforced it with public killings, stonings and amputations.

She did know that the Hutterite communities were insular, highly patriarchal and guided by strict religious tenets.

"Veneration of the Imperial House is a strict religious tenet of Japan and, however much it offends nations which espouse other tenets, it commands the deep loyalty of the Japanese," she wrote.

While the ideals of fiscal conservatism like lowering taxes and smaller government are timeless tenets, strict social conservatism is troglodytic because it desperately clings to outmoded mores and rigid restrictions.

The group was popular among fundamentalist Saudis who saw in them an echo of their own strict adherence to the tenets of Sunni Islam.