Sentence examples for western precepts from inspiring English sources
On one hand there is the risk of assuming an exclusively western ceteris paribus stance and incurring frank ethical imperialism as western precepts and standards are enforced (or perhaps more accurately inflicted) upon other groups with dissimilar needs, values, and norms.
Violent extremists wage a war on Western cultural and religious precepts and wish to see their acts fused into the identity of their own Muslim community so that they can be recognized as being representative of the larger community, especially by the media.
The murders in Paris have been directly linked – as has the bomb believed to have downed a Russian airliner, and the earlier beheadings of foreigners in the region – to the movement that calls itself "Islamic State", its medieval precepts and the indignation of its followers at Western, including now Russian, military intervention.
Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational psychology".
The pressures can mount for Muslims living in Western countries, and the Almontasers live the month with a striking mix of Islamic precepts and hectic 21st-century life in New York.
We will see in November whether that string continues or whether we will be able to say we have turned a corner and are willing to join the increasing part of the rest of the western world that accepts the diversity of the human condition and truly honors the precept, "Love your neighbor as yourself".
Western interpretations of Buddhism and Green Tibetan representations propose a more intimate relationship between religious precept and environmental concern and action than one based on egotistical fear of consequence.
We independently tested the reactivity of Math5 antibodies to mouse and human proteins expressed at high levels in transfected NIH3T3 cells, by Western blotting, and to retinal sections from wild-type and Math5 mutant embryos (Figure S2), following standard precepts [39], [40].
First, he wanted to reaffirm a certain set of "nonnegotiable moral precepts" across the Christian world, perhaps through "some sort of reconciliation between the Eastern and the Western Churches".
But violating constitutional precepts?
