But it helped to define the tenets of Eastern Orthodoxy, and it had an effect on the character of Byzantine society for the future.
Movements need defining tenets to unite around.
"While I'm glad Mrs. DeVos clarified that she is no longer confused about whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a federal law and was able to define the basic tenets of this law, her letter does nothing to reassure me that she will enforce the IDEA or honor our commitment to ensuring that all students receive a free and appropriate public education.
GRC members have already done a lot of work on defining research integrity, noted Matthias Kleiner, head of the German Research Foundation, so it should be "easier to define what are the basic tenets".
Empirical scientific research has become the most valued and highly rewarded activity for nurse academics to pursue, and the tenets and standards of research have come to define the entire academic project of nursing.
At least two of its defining tenets had been shown to be without merit.
Since then, the economy has been chronically mismanaged; the three defining tenets have been corruption, greed, and revenge, under the rubric of "indigenization".
Since then, the economy has been chronically mismanaged; the three defining tenets have been corruption, greed, and revenge, under the rubric of "indigenization". Zimbabwe witnessed ethnic cleansing against opposition tribes in the eighties.
He questioned two of the defining tenets of Wahhabism: "loyalty and dissociation," or loving Muslims just like you and holding hatred in your heart for Jews, Christians and Muslims not like you; and takfir, the practice of accusing fellow Sunnis of apostasy, which is a crime punishable by death.
Reinventing the wheel isn't about ignoring the defining tenets of what makes a wheel a wheel, it simply means building on what you've learned and making it better.
But, over-all, Roth's young epikores airs an intellectually skeptical and gleefully ribald objection to a defining Jewish tenet in order to show up the dullness, blandness, and incuriosity of the elders.
