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  • The tenets of Pashtun men.  (source)
    tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
  • Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.  (source)
    tenet = important belief
  • The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century.  (source)
    tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
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  • The week before he came, we'd had a famous theologian whose words sent the students scurrying to their rooms to hassle half the night. But Caleb was like a cool wind from the north... No great theological problems. No debatable tenets. He spoke simply of...  (source)
    tenets = important beliefs that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
  • This had been a tenet of her beliefs since she was a child.  (source)
    tenet = an important belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
  • Pea had been faithful to his tenets, whereas he had not.†  (source)
    tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
  • The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc.  (source)
    tenet = belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
  • One of the tenets of his breakthrough-H = R/E, or happiness equals reality divided by expectation-was based on the universal truth that you always had some expectation for what was to come.†  (source)
    tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
  • 'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.†  (source)
  • Over the course of his life, Wesley traveled ceaselessly among these groups, covering as much as four thousand miles a year by horseback, reinforcing the tenets of Methodist belief.†  (source)
  • One such central tenet was that Jesus was both God and man.†  (source)
  • They thought the loss of democratic freedoms would be temporary and that it was possible to go without individual or collective rights for a while so long as the regime respected the tenets of free enterprise.†  (source)
  • "The secret hides within" was the core tenet of the mysteries, urging man kind to seek God not in the heavens above ....but rather within himself.†  (source)
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