precepts in English

noun
1
a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought.
moral precepts
2
a writ or warrant.
the Commissioner issued precepts requiring the companies to provide information

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1. ADDITIONAL PRECEPTS THAT PROMOTE SUCCESS

2. 10 This policy goes against common precepts of decency.

3. Heedlessness for the precepts of proper behavior; licentiousness.

4. "Moreover, His Majesty never maintained himself in the five precepts.

5. And even for the prevailing types most precepts prove transitory.

6. The Brahmanas are ritualistic texts that include precepts and religious duties

7. So it re-shows the brain makes predictions and fundamentally changes the precepts.

8. Synonyms for Apothegms include rules, principles, precepts, standards, axioms, criteria, fundamentals, maxims, tenets and essence

9. Controlled escalation, if required, and dominance over the threat, if necessary, were the guiding precepts.

10. Accordingly, Jehovah’s Witnesses strive to adhere strictly to the precepts established by the first Christians.

11. The precepts prohibit killing, stealing , harmful language , sexual misbehavior , and the use of intoxicants.

12. They do not preach learning precepts , they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

13. Basilian rule definition is - a series of ascetic precepts for cenobites of either sex written by St

14. The Sharia includes difficult - to - implement precepts pertaining to taxation , the judicial system , and warfare .

15. Dole has proved, despite his age, that he remains a man of vigor who stands by traditional Republican precepts.

16. Ten Commandments definition, the precepts spoken by God to Israel, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai; the Decalogue

17. He erected religious monuments, convened councils, and exhorted the people to live by the precepts of the Buddha.

18. Bhikkhu (plural Bhikkhus) A Buddhist monk or priest; one who follows all Buddhist precepts as a full member of the sangha.

19. 29 Aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the burial of bin Laden was done in conformance with Islamic precepts and practices.

20. Jesus' way of acting and his words, his deeds and his precepts constitute the moral rule of Christian life.

21. Running their corporation according to the ancient precepts of the Talmud, they shunned all publicity and trusted only a handful of associates.

22. Benedictions, though brief, offer words of assurance or precepts designed to bring joy, peace, comfort, and security to those who place their trust in God.

23. (Matthew 6:1-6) They also tried to demonstrate their righteousness by adhering to countless laws and precepts—many of which were of their own making.

24. Often in the West, the community belongs to a religious order and the life of the Cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts.

25. Recall that Absolutists are low on relativism (thus subscribing to universal moral precepts) and high on idealism (thus having acute concern about a given behavior's impact on others)

26. Astroarchaeology is a field methodology, often operating without cul tural precepts, for retrieving astronomical information from the study of alignments associated with ancient architecture and the landscape

27. Often in the West, the community belongs to a religious order and the life of the Cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts.

28. Often in the West, the community belongs to a religious order and the life of the Cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts.

29. Often in the West the community belongs to a religious order, and the life of the Cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts

30. Ten Commandments, list of religious precepts that, according to various passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and were engraved on two tablets of stone

31. The Conservative Buddhists of America believe that we can regain a positive societal foundation by following the five simple, natural and morally conservative Buddhist principles known as the “Five Precepts”: 1

32. Another of these philosophers, Onesicritus, a Cynic, is said by Strabo to have learnt in India the following precepts: "That nothing that happens to a man is bad or good, opinions being merely dreams. ...

33. Philo used allegorical interpretation to analyze the creation account, the record of Cain murdering Abel, the Flood of Noah’s day, the confusion of languages at Babel, and many precepts of the Mosaic Law.

34. Under this method, which follows the precepts of full accrual accounting, after-service health insurance benefits accrue during the active service life of staff members and are considered a form of deferred compensation

35. Under this method, which follows the precepts of full accrual accounting, after-service health insurance benefits accrue during the active service life of staff members and are considered a form of deferred compensation.

36. "But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed" (Jn 7:49), was how the Pharisees judged those whom Jesus had helped even beyond the limits established by their precepts.

37. Apostolic, Latin Apostolicus, plural Apostolici, member of any of the various Christian sects that sought to reestablish the life and discipline of the primitive church by a literal observance of the precepts of continence and poverty.

38. Today, many Catholics fast and Abstain only on Ash Wednesday and Friday of the Lord's Passion and Abstain from flesh meat on other Fridays of Lent, which is the minimum required by the precepts of the Church

39. ISIS, which was born from the explosive crossing of violent Salafism and Iraqi Baathism, is an unprecedented project that aims to give Iraq and Syria's Sunni Arabs an alternative country, ruled by the sole precepts of Islam in its most rigorist form

40. The Antitheses (matthew 5:21-48) in the sermon on the mount: moral precepts revealed in scripture and binding on all people a dissertation submitted to the faculty of calvin theological seminary in candidacy for the degree of doctor of philosophy by amos winarto oei

41. Once he has acquired a bowl, a set of three robes and a belt, the future Bhikkhu takes the ten precepts of the sāmaṇera (if he has not done so already), because only a sāmaṇera can be incorporated into the saṃgha.Once this step is accomplished, the procedure of

42. Not only are individual buildings such as the Assembly Rooms and Pump Room of great distinction, they are part of the larger overall city landscape that evolved over a century in a harmonious and logical way, drawing together public and private buildings and spaces in a way that reflects the precepts of Palladio tempered with picturesque aestheticism.

43. We must be in the fear of the Lord as in our employment, exercising ourselves in holy Adorings of God, in subjection to his precepts, submission to his providences, and a constant care to please him; we must be in it as in our element, taking a pleasure in contemplating God’s glory and complying with his will.

44. We must be in the fear of the Lord as in our employment, exercising ourselves in holy Adorings of God, in subjection to his precepts, submission to his providences, and a constant care to please him; we must be in it as in our element, taking a pleasure in contemplating God’s glory and complying with his will.

45. The European Bourgeoisie presents faces so different that common traits can be discerned only at the simplest level: the possession of property with the desire and means to increase it, emancipation from past precepts about investment, a readiness to work for a living, and a sense of being superior to town workers or peasants

46. The report is thus manifestly short on objectivity, adopting highly Contestable legal analyses (for example regarding the characterisation of letters of intent and the scope of a unilateral commitment in civil and commercial law) and making an unjustified application to the facts at issue of certain irrelevant legal precepts (this is the case, for example, with the application of the theory of

47. Concerning this record, the Prophet Joseph Smith, who translated it by the gift and power of God, said, “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book” (see the introduction at the front of the Book of Mormon).