When Richard H. Immerman — a historian at Temple University who, as a former Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence, has a top-secret security clearance — heard about the project's potential for un-redaction, he started to worry about the mosaic theory, a precept that the intelligence community often invokes in the alleged and legally tenuous interest of national security.
The theory undermined significant precepts of the study of evolution, underscoring the idea that evolution began at the level of micro-organisms long before it would be visible at the level of species.
Various philosophies and theories have eroded precepts of right and wrong that govern personal behavior.
You can follow the precepts of theory or just go on your nerve.
Instead of breathing heavily and shouting the implications of his theory, he follows the precept of his subtitle and explores the little things that make a big difference.
Once such factors are incorporated into the study of immunity, we appreciate that the current precepts of immune theory relying on the immune self, placed within more narrow considerations, must be re-conceptualized.
In a time and place where Calvinism and Pietism still questioned the value of the fine arts, it may have been necessary for him to emphasize the value of art for enlivening our moral precepts over his theory that morality itself aims at a kind of happiness in which the pleasures of the fine arts play a direct and major rôle.
The theory is based on the precept that there must be a convergence of three independent streams of problems, policy, and politics for an issue to reach a policy agenda.
Mr. Arlacchi visited Afghanistan three years ago and secured assurances of cooperation from the Taliban, which considers drug use contrary to Islamic precepts, at least in theory.
Rasso (2015) tests whether providing auditors with documentation instructions "based on the precepts of construal-level theory (CLT)" improves auditor effectiveness and skepticism when auditing these types of estimates.
