Sentence examples for which tenets from inspiring English sources

The implication, Haggis said, was that he could "pick and choose" which tenets of Scientology to believe.

Pope John Paul II deplored such thinking, and criticized those he called "smorgasbord Catholics" for picking and choosing which tenets of the Church they wished to follow.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said: "The president's health care law empowers bureaucrats here in Washington to decide which tenets religious institutions can and cannot adhere to.

Collins explained that day that he revered Leyland because he preached a baseball philosophy in which basic tenets could be synthesized into one simple recipe.

The most important fundamentalist text, Cyrus I. Scofield's 1909 Reference Bible, in which the tenets of dispensation are outlined in the margins, sold in the millions, and remains in wide circulation today.

And an old-fashioned atheist, the sort who just doesn't believe in God and who provides an environment for his progeny in which the tenets of religious observation have no cachet.

Plato and Aristotle can in many ways be seen as defending some fundamental tenets of Greek ethics (such as the value of justice), but doing so by means of advancing revisionist philosophical doctrines and distancing themselves from the ways in which those tenets were interpreted by the democratic institutions of their day.

The review contained some elements which questioned tenets of the Consensus, and some which added to it.

The theoretical base of the ACHIEVE Trial fits well within the psychiatric rehabilitation framework which emphasizes tenets of intrinsic skills building and environmental supports [ 37, 38].

We juxtaposed key tenets of best ethical practice in key selected guidelines (such as 'best interests', consent requirements, age to assent/consent, etc. described in Table  3) against the themes from 18 studies using a constant comparison technique [ 15] in order to see the extent to which these tenets are legally or socially enforced.

Several Republicans observed that the key test could be the degree to which Mr. Tenet can forge a rapport with Mr. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.