Sentence examples for whose tenets from inspiring English sources

After all, what was being enforced went far beyond sharia or Saudi Wahhabism, so many of whose tenets are similar to those of Isis.

After all, there are hundreds of religious groups in America today, some of whose tenets or practices are far more distant from the mainstream.

Wolfe called it "an architecture whose tenets prohibit every manifestation of exuberance, power, empire, grandeur or even high spirits and playfulness".

A gentler strand in Islāmic eschatology produced, over the centuries, a series of reinterpretations or adaptations of the original doctrine, some of whose tenets were even claimed to have been only metaphorical.

They also believe in a mission -- in this case, celebrating Jewish life and abiding by Jewish law, one of whose tenets discourages "lashon hara," or malicious gossip, even if the gossip is true.

For a movement whose tenets are supposedly drawn from the religious norms of the 7th century CE, Isis has a very modern and manipulative approach to dominating the news agenda by means of attention-grabbing PR stunts in which merciless violence plays a central role.

They espouse a philosophy whose main tenets are a belief in "nature" and the sanctity of childhood.

Since fragmentation is a subversive notion in classical art, Racine may have abandoned a genre to whose classical tenets he could no longer subscribe.

Read it to remember that "liberal" is a label with a proud, patriotic history and one whose primary tenets are shared by supermajorities of the American people.

In her more than eighty movies, she played flappers, working girls, adulteresses, matrons, and, most notably, the anguished heroines of melodrama — women embracing the reality principle whose iron tenets are that life is hard, satisfaction elusive, and happiness never without cost.

And I suppose that my friends and I sought it out among Christian preachers rather than among ecstatic Hasidim precisely because of the sharp doctrinal difference: as Jews, we might have seen ourselves as part of a continuum with Hasidic believers whose basic tenets were as distant from us as pastrami on white with mayo.