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The word "tenets" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a principle or belief that guides the behavior of a person or group. You can use it whenever you want to refer to such a principle or belief. For example: "The main tenets of the company are respect, honesty, and integrity."
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This new, profligate – almost punk — kind of business model trashed the tenets of an older generation brought up with rationing and restriction.
In challenging the label, CAT and the court became tangled in a debate – at times leaning on the philosophical – about the hopelessly broad tenets that lie at the centre of the law: over what constitutes "state policy" and "political activity", terms which have been applied in damaging trials against NGOs on a case-by-case basis.
The key tenets of this cross-party accord were and still remain: Northern Ireland's constitutional position within the UK will not change without the consent of the majority; a power-sharing settlement involving nationalists and unionists in a mandatory coalition; fairness in employment, culture and other civil rights and close cooperation with the Republic of Ireland.
As a wishy-washy liberal who holds fast to the two great central political tenets of our time, as expressed by David Mitchell of this paper – "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that" and "it just goes to show you can't be too careful" – I am used to being on the side of … well, hopefully, kindness, doing the right thing and everybody getting along.
Or, believing that the party does not belong to Tony Blair, we could rise up against the coup d'etat which overthrew the legitimate philosophy.' Hattersley says he is supported by 'thousands of like-minded members of the party' who believe Blair's obsession with 'meritocracy' goes against the central tenets of traditional Labour beliefs.
Over time it became obvious that political success rested upon managing the balance between those two identities, between the institutional tenets of Scottish identity – religion, education and law – and a broader British state that derived its strength from empire, protestantism and defence.
But the tenets of investing say it's irresponsible for an endowment to put all of its money into such a strategy.
A New Declaration of Independence were arguing that "monopoly capitalism is morally ugly as well as economically unsound," that in America "the large majority should be able – in accordance with the tenets of the 'American dream' … to count on living in an atmosphere of equality, in a world which puts relatively few barriers between man and man".
These are the tenets of our unhealthy academic culture.
One of the tenets of Participatory Forest Management is gender balance - women must make up at least one-third of all committees and groups.
The PVV sees Islam as a totalitarian danger around the world; the FN frets not over the religion's basic tenets but only about the "Islamification" of France.Elsewhere some on the populist right Belgium's Vlaams Belang, Italy's Northern League want regional autonomy within the EU while others UKIP and the Finns Party reject EU membership outright.
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