Sentence examples for traditional tenets from inspiring English sources

He then listed several of the church's traditional tenets.

"When you first start, you learn the traditional tenets of taekwondo: respect, courtesy, perseverance," she said.

Many of the priests he ordained in the past decade say they were drawn to Peoria by his unwavering adherence to traditional tenets of the church.

Years ago, I was a supporter of a new literary movement, one that uprooted the traditional tenets of narrative in modern fiction: Choose Your Own Adventure.

When asked what students should gain from attending college, those surveyed emphasized job-related skills rather than the traditional tenets of the liberal arts.

Their version drew on the traditional tenets: ordinary people are capable of greatness; individuals have the power to shape their destinies; they should be given maximum freedom to do so.

Sprinkling speeches with Scripture and compromising traditional Democratic tenets is not the way to go about it.

The Christian community has sometimes exercised this religious function in collusion with tribalistic nationalisms (e.g., the "German Christians" and Nazism) by disregarding traditional church tenets.

The GAFCON statement announced plans to form a new council of archbishops to oversee Anglicans who upheld traditional theological tenets and opposed moves to ordain homosexual clergy and bless same-sex unions.

"Lang Lang's mother and father joined a generation of parents who, not surprisingly, focused on the futures of their 'little emperors' with an intensity that pushed traditional Confucian tenets of 'family education' to extremes," she writes.

As the campaign progressed, the NDP slid in the opinion polls, a consequence, according to a number of political observers, of a party platform that seemed to abandon traditional NDP tenets by insisting that new social programs be part of a balanced budget.