Tenet Sentence Examples

Yet, in striking contrast to this orthodox tenet is his vivid conception of the weakness and misery of men, the hopelessness of the struggle with evil, whether in society or in the individual.

He avers that this " metaphysic of experience " is not idealism, or the tenet that consciousness is the only reality.

Immediately after the death of Huss many priests who refused to administer communion in the two kinds - now the principal tenet of the adherents of Huss - had been expelled from their parishes.

The common tenet of the whole school is that without inference we immediately perceive the external world, at all events as a resisting something external to our organism.

The tenet of its axial movement was held by many of his followers - in an obscure form by Philolaus of Crotona after the middle of the 5th century B.C., and more explicitly by Ecphantus and Hicetas of Syracuse (4th century B.C.), and by Heraclides of Pontus.

The family unity was such an accepted tenet within our lives.

Separation from European politics - the doctrine of" America for Americans "that was embodied later in the Monroe declaration - was a tenet cherished by Jefferson as by other leaders (not, however, Hamilton) and by none cherished more firmly, for by nature he was peculiarly opposed to war, and peace was a fundamental part of his politics.

Again not only was the church doctrine itself more or less consciously influenced by the Manichaean tenet of the diabolical origin of all matter, including the human body, but churchmen were also naturally tempted to compete in asceticism with the many heretics who held this tenet, and whose abstinence brought them so much popular consideration.

At various periods in the history of the middle ages we encounter sudden outbreaks of millennarianism, sometimes as the tenet of a small sect, sometimes as a far-reaching movement.

On the one hand, soul is corporeal, else it would have no real existence, would be incapable of extension in three dimensions (and therefore of equable diffusion all over the body), incapable of holding the body together, as the Stoics contended that it does, herein presenting a sharp contrast to the Epicurean tenet that it is the body which confines and shelters the light vagrant atoms of soul.

Freedom of speech is a central and sacred tenet of any democracy.

That everyone should take care of each other 's needs is a central tenet of the philosophy.

Some sects calling themselves Spirituales or Perfecti also held that the baptized cannot sin, a very ancient tenet.

That Jesus was wholly a man is a central tenet of Christianity.

My central tenet is not to tell people what to think, he says.

The collegiality of the divine messengers is a central tenet of Islamic faith.

But one core tenet of this program is that issues of rural economy and land use cannot be explored in isolation.

The company operates on the principle business tenet of providing a ' personal service ' .

Under Kemal 's presidency, Turkey dispensed with the feudal caliphate structure and embraced secularism as a basic tenet of state policy.

This is the negative defining tenet of critical realism.

The company operates on the principle business tenet of providing a ' personal service '.

Cooperation is also a tenet of many faiths that encourage members to support one another even when there are personal differences at stake.

Honoring the dead, also known as k'vod hamet, is the most important tenet of the Jewish funeral.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly referred to as the LDS or Mormon Church, holds family history research as a basic tenet of their faith.

A core tenet of a polyamorous relationship is that love has infinite capacity.

One tenet of Tao is that of 'wu wei', which literally means 'do nothing'.

Generally in accordance with the cultural tenet of filial obedience, he draws the line at obeying a parental demand for vengeance.

Under Kemal's presidency, Turkey dispensed with the feudal caliphate structure and embraced secularism as a basic tenet of state policy.

My central tenet is not to tell people what to think, " he says.

Both Stoic and Cynic maintained, in its sharpest form, the fundamental tenet that the practical knowledge which is virtue, with the condition of soul that is inseparable from it, is alone to be accounted good.

This doctrine of the moral sense is sometimes represented as Shaftesbury's cardinal tenet; but though characteristic and important, it is not really necessary to his main argument; it is the crown rather than the keystone of his ethical structure.

Later on much evidence goes to show that (by a divergence from the orthodox standard perhaps due to Platonic influence) it was a Stoic tenet to concede a soul, though not a rational soul, throughout the animal kingdom.

To the latter belong those Rajputs who though generally in sympathy with the movement declined to adhere to the tenet of the Samaj which forbade the destruction of animal life and the consumption of animal food.

He rejected the Berzelian tenet as to the unalterability of radicals, and admitted that they exercised a considerable influence upon the compounds with which they were copulated.

This and other reasons led to his rejection of the dualistic hypothesis and the adoption, on the ground of probability, and much more from convenience, of the tenet that " acids are particular compounds of hydrogen, in which the latter can be replaced by metals "; while, on the constitution of salts, he held that " neutral salts are those compounds of the same class in which the hydrogen is replaced by its equivalent in metal.