| 单词 | precept |
| 例句 | I just sent you my precept in the mail: “Sometimes it’s good to start over.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Remember Mr. Browne’s November precept: “Have no friends not equal to yourself!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z As I wrote down Mr. Browne’s September precept, I suddenly realized that I was going to like school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah!” he answered, “people really do that. I’ve had students send me new precepts years after they’ve graduated from this school, actually. It’s pretty amazing.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The various accounts that survive, though sketchy, broadly agree that Corax was the first person to set down precepts for the art of persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I wrote this precept because I’m going to a new school in September. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Browne’s December precept was: Fortune favors the bold. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z So, along with a group of other friends, Abu founded a new mosque in East Orange, New Jersey, where traditional Islamic precepts would be observed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He too epitomized Chief Luthuli’s precept: “Let your courage rise with danger.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He also tries to console him with religious precepts, reminding him that every life has its “trials and tribulations.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Since we were just about to start studying ancient Egypt in history, Mr. Browne thought this was a good choice for a precept. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “I’ll sit over here with Nell, and if you come across any particularly edifying moral precepts you think would do me good, read them aloud.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Oh look, a Mr. Browne precept!” she said, pointing to a cutout of Mr. Browne’s September precept. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It is among the most fundamental precepts in attention science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Accept these precepts from thy devoted father, who in humbleness of spirit has made this book. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z So, one afternoon, while Grandmère was sleeping, I started thinking about sending him a precept from Paris. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z And I do not think it useless to discuss them, since I would not know of any better precepts to give to a new prince than the example of his deeds. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Answer: First, let me commend you on your interest in following Islamic precepts in your life. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Our homework assignment was to write a paragraph about what we thought the precept meant or how we felt about it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z If men were all good, this precept would not be good. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It is an interesting precept on which to found a ministry: The First Evangelical Baptist Church of the Twin-Prone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She now commenced to practise her husband’s precepts. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, taste is conditioned solely by culture, which is so varied that it is impossible to reduce art to any one set of precepts. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of the year, Mr. Browne had told all of us that he wanted us to send him one of our own precepts over the summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But I wanted Mr. Browne to know enough so that he would understand my precept. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z King Louis lost Lombardy, therefore, by not following any of the precepts observed by others who seized territories and wished to retain them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z As we did what he told us to do, he said: “Okay, so who can tell me what a precept is? Does anyone know?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Quotes from the Bible and religious precepts have been creeping into his letters to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This is what I wrote: This precept means that we should be remembered for the things we do. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Here, you could argue, is the very justification of the novel itself – the education of our imaginations not by precept but through the inconsequent palpability of art, what Henry James called its "irresponsible plasticity". Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z As “Enlightenment beings” that challenged the epistemological precepts of the Enlightenment, vampires were unsolved riddles. Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z They subvert precepts of genre, story, and technique. A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z It would be easy to say he violated journalistic precepts of full disclosure. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Nagl went on to write a book, “Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife,” which took its title and many precepts from Lawrence of Arabia’s lessons about desert fighting. Books of The Times: ‘The Insurgents,’ About David Petraeus, by Fred Kaplan 2012-12-26T23:24:35Z It also touches on moral precepts, the importance of religion in shaping values and the place of the Russian language in uniting a country of more than 140 million people and diverse ethnicities. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z To do so, they published numerous online messages exposing their religious life of following Orthodox Judaism precepts while also highlighting their careers. Netflix’s "My Unorthodox Life" urged ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The technical pen of a lawyer, limited as it is to legal precepts and sterile facts, can’t tell the story that is Palestine. Both sides of the knife: When we speak about Palestinian violence, we ought to do so in the context of “the ongoing and daily oppression faced by some 4 million people” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Kraftwerk, the German band whose music predicted pop’s electronic future back in the 1970s, hasn’t forgotten an old-fashioned precept: A concert is a physical, spatial event. Music Review: Kraftwerk in Concert at the United Palace Theater 2014-04-02T21:23:44Z This precept applies equally, he argues, to machines and to men. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z And then watching in the public sphere your own precepts and thoughts around it — you’re reduced to this charade, this two-dimensional caricature. Kehinde Wiley explains his ‘An Economy of Grace’ paintings focusing on black women Although religion preaches many moral precepts, it by no means holds a monopoly on them. The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn't destroy society or moral order 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The idea of a government eye in the sky doesn’t always play so well in the United States, where personal liberty is a founding precept taken very seriously in many regions. The Drones Were Ready for This Moment 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z When it's questioned, western women respond very defensively because they think their precepts and critical evaluations of FGC are not connected to their race. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In “The Second Detail” Mr. Forsythe offers a rigorous and playful exploration of ballet’s precepts: verticality, equilibrium, effort, control and classical line. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z It’s startling to recall how revolutionary the original vision was, and how rigid its strictest precepts were. Movie Review: ?Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment,? a Documentary 2012-04-25T03:03:02Z There are strong theological precepts against the creation of likenesses of living things, and above all of religious figures, especially Muhammad. Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam by Jamal J Elias - review 2012-12-27T07:00:01Z Indeed, his book, a rewarding read, is at its most fascinating when describing how in China the laws of nature seem to have embedded in them a moral precept. Water, water, everywhere 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z At Luda’s Dumplings, where he is the chef, Eugene pledged to follow his mother’s precepts — always use the freshest ingredients; mix everything by hand — if not exactly her recipe. Modern Russian Dumplings That Nod to the Past 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Under former artistic director Bill Rauch, the repertory company made huge strides toward shifting its gaze, with casting and slates of offerings that sought to follow the precepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. Perspective | In wake of George Floyd’s death, black theater leaders want more than sympathetic words 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z He was, in other words, not someone who experimented with Fascism but someone who supported it because he believed its precepts. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Under the lesser-known precept of Jude’s Law, there is a good chance that, if a man keeps having unprotected sex with young women, a number of them will get pregnant. Sophie Heawood: Jude Law and the accidental babies 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z For this reason, the proper home for it is indeed in an academic institution, which can shelter it as a strand of civilisation, an intellectual precept. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z This goes back to the “content” portion of the two major precepts. How To Get Your Hashtag Trending #hashtag 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Harris, too, believed that God dwelled within him, and his precepts included shared property, celibate marriages, and economies anchored by the production of wine. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The 2001 album “The Rainbow Children,” which dealt with his religion and its precepts, was condemned by some critics for lyrics that were perceived as sexist and even anti-Semitic. Reckoning with My Love for Prince 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z One of Mike’s tasks is to offer, by precept and example, an alternative way of being a man. ‘Cry Macho’ Review: The Good, the Bad and the Poultry 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It's a culture-clash film, and it deals in stereotypes, and prejudice, and hypocrisy, and zealotry – all the stuff that surrounds religion – but it hardly touches on religion, as in the actual precepts of either faith. David Baddiel on South Park 2010-04-22T12:01:00Z Dutch Composer and Pupils Mix Styles During the Classical period composers hewed to certain common precepts and rules; the fledgling , however bold, initially adhered to a Haydn-inspired model. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z At the same time, the show stayed faithful to the fundamental precept of the original series: Here was a documentary film crew shooting wage slaves at their workplace. 'The Office': shutting down on NBC after 8 years 2013-05-14T14:26:08Z One can’t fault UnREAL for forgoing any lectures on the basic precepts of contract law, of course, and it’s meant to be a one-hour drama, not an investigative documentary. UnREAL takes aim at reality TV – but the truth is even more brutal 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z However foundational it may be as a medical precept, “First, do no harm” is disastrous as a musical one. Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Apter is one of many writers drawn to that new country, busily extracting and disseminating simplified versions of its precepts. Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review 2012-08-24T21:45:04Z It is as though the moral precepts that govern much of the world’s behavior are derived from far-off and alien civilizations. Book Review Podcast: Michel Faber’s ‘Book of Strange New Things’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Lula relies on the precepts and strictures of her faith to guide them, but Beulah Springs Holiness Church is tough and inflexible — proponents of faith healing, visions and eternal marriage, to name a few. Review | In Kelli Jo Ford’s remarkable ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ the maternal bond is unbreakable 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z All of these theoretical precepts about technique are sometimes true and other times not. 9 blind spots most therapists share 2014-03-17T00:00:00Z Reaching for consensus, she aligns herself broadly with the precepts of feminism. In ‘My Unorthodox Life,’ Fashion Is a Flash Point 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z This is definitely the harder part of the two major precepts. How To Get Your Hashtag Trending #hashtag 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The doggedly orthodox College of Physicians still championed the classical precepts of Galen. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z The proponents of “deep history” seek to upend the discipline’s most precious precept and method: the reliance on the written record of the past. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z It’s a precept that covers her Long Island menagerie, which includes, besides poultry and bees, three goats, a small herd of sheep and Pepe and Boris, her lumberingly overgrown pigs. Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z What makes things worse for Roderick is that before adopting the monastic precepts of straightedge hardcore music — no drugs, no booze, no fun — he used to be just like Tuffer. Review: In ‘The Jamb,’ 2 Gay Middle-Age Friends Face a Reckoning 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Let those people confuse listeners, or challenge precepts of fashion, by being themselves. Seeking Genuine Discovery on Music Streaming Services 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z By taking account of a few simple precepts, you can become a "wino" – a charmed, bon mot-slinging sophisticate with entrée into society's most exclusive clubs and factions, for whom dullness is the only impossibility. We Are Scientists present ? the rules of wine 2010-06-16T12:30:00Z Ken Kesey, the author of that great American novel of mental illness “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” once cited with approval a precept of his father’s: “Good writing ain’t necessarily good reading.” Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z “The real way of the warrior is to prevent slaughter,” goes one precept, which sounds good until you remember that without slaughter, there would be no “Walking Dead.” ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Price of Inner Peace 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Saying that “outerwear sits well with a leather goods brand,” the designer talked about two important precepts for design: freedom of spirit and of function. Fashion Review: Coach’s New Designer Puts the Emphasis on American Luxury 2014-02-16T12:23:13Z In its pursuit, the Pentagon and its increasingly militarized government partners are drawing on everything from classic precepts of colonial warfare to the latest technologies. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z To Hollywood acquaintances he once sent acrylic desktop stand-up plaques outlining Scientology’s basic behavioral precepts. Tom Cruise Specializes in Career Repair 2012-07-02T21:24:33Z If I accept the mightiness of Bellow and Nabokov, it’s partly because Amis persuaded me, both by the precepts of his criticism and the example of his fiction, which grapples with and overcomes their influence. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z But Thomas explains the reasons for these precepts clearly, with backing quotations from the greats, and shows us plenty of exceptions. Monkeys With Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas – review 2012-10-13T23:05:32Z Adhering to Tati's severe precepts, and refusing the balm of a happy ending, The Illusionist challenges two implicit laws of all animated features: that they must appeal both to the funny bone and to kids. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z The work of both men is characterized by a strong adherence to classical technique and precepts, a contrast to much European work being made for ballet companies. New York City Ballet Gambles on Unknown Choreographers 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The series, for San Antonio's Artpace, toyed with minimalist precepts as much as questions of race and power. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z According to Starr, she and fellow practitioners are simply living according to Satanic precepts. The greatest trick the satanists ever pulled: They may be truer to the words of Jesus than most Christians 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z And there’s certainly nothing too hard to follow about moral precepts in “Lionboy.” ‘Lionboy,’ a Fairy Tale Set in a Dystopian Future 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z And the form, the precepts, are yours to dispose of as you will, John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The Republican Party has been the party of selfishness and the party of punishment for decades now, trashing the basic precepts not only of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also of humanity generally. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Albers had arrived from Germany in 1933, bringing Bauhaus precepts with him: Focus on ordinary materials, what’s close at hand; consider all materials and forms of equal value, and all combinations valid. Robert Rauschenberg: It Takes a Village to Raise a Genius 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Transformation cannot be complete, she writes, unless certain Islamic precepts are “repudiated and nullified,” including “Mohammed’s semidivine and infallible status along with the literalist reading of the Quran.” Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s ‘Heretic’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z There she learned Turkish, the precepts of Islam and the amorous arts. The Woman Who Smashed a Glass Ceiling in the 16th Century 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Led by two guides per city, we padded though Buddhist and Hindu holy sites, trying to keep straight each faith’s main precepts and deities. A breathtaking Himalayan journey to ‘the rooftop of the world’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s a precept she learned as a girl on her family’s estate in Venezuela. Carolina Herrera, Then and Now 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z I didn’t follow traditional Confucian precepts in which a virtuous woman must obey her father before marriage, obey her husband when married and obey her son in widowhood. Our infertile years 2012-11-19T00:59:00Z The environmentalist precept of “reduce, reuse, recycle” is an aesthetic touchstone for the designer Emily Bode, isolating since mid-March in British Columbia. Emily Bode on How to Make a ‘Sweetheart’ T-Shirt 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Even now, the humanist precepts espoused by the early Modernists tend to inform daily life in a place where until not long ago bathers seldom bothered with clothes. The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Being turned away from the synagogue felt like an appropriate punishment for violating my precepts. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z Neither Judge Wackner nor the 9 ¾ Judicial Circuit appear at all in this week's episode, this season's fifth, but its precepts echo through the main storyline concerning unequal healthcare apportioning during the height of pandemic. "The Good Fight" makes the Kafka-esque dream of a People's Court a reality 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The first precept of duende was “irrationality,” which Mr. Calderon appears to have interpreted as “making sense is optional.” Review: ‘Master of the Crossroads’ Embraces Irrationality 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Those are some of the downtown precepts that haven’t taken as easily. 30 Years Later, Three Bands From New York’s Downtown Scene Unite for One Night 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z I’ve learned that I always create a club or a family around me, because I understand so well the precept that many hands make light work. The Founder’s Nick Offerman: ‘Being American means that I have to stand up and march’ 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z And some of Sax’s precepts, novel under our shared duress, now seem obvious or under-interrogated. Keep Baking That Sourdough, and Change the World 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z They conform to the precept that governed clothes and fittings made for the original luxury goods consumers, members of the carriage trade. Fashion Review: Fashion Review: The Italian Men’s Wear Shows 2013-01-16T21:30:06Z In its simultaneous celebration of collectivity and compositional vision, it represents an extension of precepts espoused by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Nicole Mitchell to Lead Jazz Program at University of Pittsburgh 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The truth which this book lays down, and the precepts it offers, are as simple as the copybook and as universal as humanity. Review: ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ by Dale Carnegie 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But in court documents, CorePower’s lawyers dismissed karma as a meaningless “metaphysical precept,” on par with words like “authentic,” “World Class Yoga Experience” and, yes, “soul-rocking.” Psst. Kid. Wanna Teach Some Yoga? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The first precept may be to go with an open mind — and ears. Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It outlines the Buddhist precepts that sustain most of its people. Movie Review: ‘They Call It Myanmar,’ by Robert H. Lieberman 2012-09-20T22:40:51Z It was an exhibition that applied high-art precepts to the detritus of an uprising. Noah Purifoy, an artist forged by fire 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The title of the series alludes to Schoenberg’s precept; “re:sonance,” so punctuated, implies both history and sound. Music Review: Re:sonance at the Austrian Cultural Forum - Review 2012-01-13T23:37:14Z With Washington, who, in popular myth at least, declared, as a moral precept, “I cannot tell a lie.” Presidential Portraits: Staring History in the Face 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z He will have a monthlong residency in Chicago starting in July, during which he’ll collaborate with the artist and social activist Theaster Gates, whose work combines the precepts of installation art and urban revitalization. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The pairing of Mr. Hirst and Mr. Gagosian was a kind of apotheosis of Andy Warhol’s famous precept that good business is the best art. At Frieze Art Fair, the Well-to-Do Meet the Truly Wealthy 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But the weird thing is, how can you do a comic turn without betraying the precepts of group therapy? Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z They say that above-inflation increase in the police precept is at a level forecast by the Office of Budget Responsibility. Spending review's hidden pain (and gain) 2010-10-20T16:20:00Z He-said–she-said is fine for books, but movies play with the cinematic precept that seeing is believing: we show, you swallow. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Walt notes that while this may sound like a radical idea, it once was the guiding precept for American foreign policy. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z If you believe that Lester Bangs’s precept applies equally to musicals — and it’s true that many fine ones are gloriously and righteously dumb — you might not mind that. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The original “Real World” kids all held down jobs, on the precept that they had to do more than sit around. Perspective | Here’s to the class-conflicted, workplace-inappropriate ‘Below Deck’ — TV’s ideal mental vacation 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Anderson derides Ike as “an intensely ambitious creature, one willing to compromise on the most basic precepts of personal honor if it might play to his political advantage.” When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But as complicated as that book was, it nonetheless observed some basic precepts of storytelling. ‘Arcadia’ by Iain Pears: A plot built for an app. In fact there is one. 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z For all who respect free and uncensored discourse, as well as those who create movies anchored by that precept, a great deal of trust is required. We view movies through the lens of our times; case in point, 'Selma' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z In the end, eugenicists’ objections to interracial marriage produced the desired effect: new antimiscegenation laws were passed and old ones rewritten according to eugenic precepts. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z It was George Wickham who, in Darcy's youth, by personal example and precept largely helped to keep him out of trouble. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z The techniques and methods may differ, but the core precepts are the same. On the Runway: Caesar Stovall, Army Medic Turned Givenchy Model 2011-07-29T21:58:48Z When the two precepts collide, the authoritarian reflex prevails. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z Besides, the precepts Evans offers are both edifying and entertaining. The Value and Virtue of Good Writing (Rule No. 7: Don’t Be a Bore) 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z For The Times, Charles Arrowsmith wrote that the self-help book “is a raw deal, a hollow PR exercise filled with precepts and quips but devoid of self-awareness or humility.” Arnold Schwarzenegger wants 'young blood' in 2024 election since he can't run for president 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Circuit Court, said in court papers Friday that Trump is likely to succeed in his challenge to the gag order because it is “unsupported by evidence and violates the First Amendment’s most basic precepts.” Trump asks judge to lift gag order in 2020 election case while he pursues appeal 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z In the ambulance they used to move bodies, we met volunteers from an organisation called Zaka - that recovers Jewish dead so they can be buried according to their religion's precepts. Missing peace activist Vivian Silver - son awaits news, good or bad 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Permit me to save you the trouble of finding out for yourself: “Be Useful” is a raw deal, a hollow PR exercise filled with precepts and quips but devoid of self-awareness or humility. Sensei Schwarzenegger? The Governator attempts a reboot with a pallid self-help book 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “I’m not going to preview what the consequences would be of violating those precepts, but it’s absolutely imperative that the world stand together now and stress the inviolability of those principles,” she said. Amid fury over Nagorno-Karabakh, could Armenia's government fall next? 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The precept that shelter should be a short step — usually 60 to 120 days — on the way to permanent housing is interpreted loosely. Can licensed tent villages ease California's homelessness epidemic? This nonprofit thinks so 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z "Venerate the housewife" was one of their early precepts, and the organisation limits membership to "biological males". Proud Boys: From storming the Capitol for Trump to protesting drag shows 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Now some of Trump's true believers are eager to adapt the violent precepts of perpetual war to American politics. Trump fans are ready for political violence. Why are the backers of endless war so shocked? 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z But Roth argued that unlike legal ethics, which have generally agreed upon precepts for training curriculums, religious liberty means different things under different faiths. Complaint filed over US judge's 'strange' Southwest religious liberty training order 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z One can grasp that the three precepts dovetail together in that they all rely on dogmatic assertion, denial of a scientific or empirical basis of reality and reactionary nostalgia. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Those precepts had limitations, however, especially when it came to securing the territory against the increased power of the seminomadic steppe peoples, who were now adopting the technology and lifestyle of their more settled neighbors. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, when I meditate on this painting, I try to apply Master Yunmen’s precept. Perspective | She painted the stillness, even with a house on fire When Professor Kahn left Ithaca for government posts, he became renowned for those precepts, attacking “the artificial and hyper-legal language that is sometimes known as bureaucratese or gobbledygook.” U.S. Economy May Be Heading to a Place That Must Not Be Named 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The term ESG has been around for almost two decades, but the far-right assault on companies that adopt its precepts goes back only about three years. MAGA tinpot legislators: Their one-party rule will be ruinous for the earth 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Because they're uniquely vulnerable as land-based strategic weapons, with the military precept of "use them or lose them," ICBMs are set to launch on warning. The Ukraine war and ICBMs: An accidental launch that could end the world is closer than ever 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Before Islam’s appearance in China, the Tang dynasty, like its predecessor the Sui, had been influenced by the Indian tradition of Buddhism; the Sui emperor and his Tang cousins adhered to many Buddhist precepts. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “Biden and the White House seemingly have violated every precept — speed, transparency, contrition — of crisis communications,” wrote former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod last week. Questioned on Biden documents, his press secretary has only one answer 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Its struggle is also a crucible for Europe and an assault against the most basic precept on which the Western system rests: the impermissibility of unprovoked wars of aggression. Opinion | Germany is refusing to send tanks to Ukraine. Biden cannot let this stand. 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Each believes that ideological precepts authorize him to dictate how his people live, in granular detail. Opinion | Uprisings in China and Iran show the limits of government harassment 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Htavara, a monk who led Saffron Revolution protests and now lives in exile in Norway, said monks who participated in the violence against the junta's opponents were violating the first precept of their religion. Monk militia: The Buddhist clergy backing Myanmar's junta 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Around the same time, leaders of the movement have felt obligated to state outright that the precept of earning to give “in no way justifies fraud,” as MacAskill tweeted. Column: How Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the 'effective altruism' fad to get rich and con the world 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z It was to be the start of a disciplined way of life where he must follow 227 rules - also called precepts. I dream of watching Manchester United but know I never will 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Affirmation of this precept is urgently needed by a nation saturated with the racial obsessions that identity politics encourage, especially on campuses. Opinion | Colleges will racially discriminate no matter how the Supreme Court rules 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Writing under a pseudonym, “X,” State Department official George F. Kennan analyzed the Soviet Union’s foreign policy in terms of not only communist ideology but also geopolitical “precepts” inherited from Russian imperial history. Opinion | Putin is in Ukraine for the long haul. We must be, too. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Children also absorb Mr. Xi’s precepts each National Security Education Day on April 15, which commemorates the first meeting of the National Security Commission in 2014. In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z The impulse to specify this obvious precept suggests the vacuousness at the heart of effective altruism. Column: How Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the 'effective altruism' fad to get rich and con the world 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Billingsley developed a methodical approach to diving, an athletic form that Sports Illustrated described in 1966 as “an ascetic, artistic pursuit that is ridden with classical precepts and fixed ideas.” Hobie Billingsley, celebrated diving coach, dies at 95 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The precept can block today’s expanding racial spoils system, which is perpetrated in the name of “equity.” Opinion | Colleges will racially discriminate no matter how the Supreme Court rules 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Rather, writer Roger Angell noted, the stout and bearded Mr. Josephson “assaults a variety of hallowed precepts and revered institutions … orders a bagel from a nearby delicatessen, and when it arrives, eats it, audibly.” Larry Josephson, freeform radio pioneer, dies at 83 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a fundamental precept of American law and election procedure that elections are primarily entrusted to the states and the locality. And that’s true both for administration questions and for enforcement ones.” On the Docket: Atlanta v. Trumpworld 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z At issue are possible redactions to the committee’s letters referring to Mr. Bannon’s claim of executive privilege, a legal precept that shields from disclosure the deliberative process at the White House. Evidence dispute prompts Steve Bannon’s defense team to request a delay in his contempt trial 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Despite a failing grade on his college physics exam, Mr. Billingsley sought to replace those “classical precepts” with Newton’s laws of motion. Hobie Billingsley, celebrated diving coach, dies at 95 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Judged by any of the methodological precepts professed by the conservative legal movement, West Virginia v. Perspective | There is no conservative legal movement 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Gallup noted 29% of those surveyed said the Bible is comprised of “fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.” Poll finds American doubts about Bible at all-time high 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z He railed against its “toxic precepts,” likening the instruction to “child abuse.” Opinion | Cranky is in the eye of the beholder 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Given such religious precepts, social stigma and a mishmash of laws that in most African nations only allow abortions in extreme situations, backstreet operations remain rife. U.S. Supreme Court leak stirs abortion passions in Africa 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Koontz’s demand that the preservationist precept dominate other cultural practices is culture war. Fish and Wildlife mandate: ‘Culture war’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z For all their mutual hostility, the Kremlin and the White House are willing to rely on similar precepts: Might makes right. Russia's war is an inexcusable crime — but the U.S. is not a credible force for peace 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z And on the Chinese internet, some users have robustly questioned how China’s position on the Ukraine war squares with its longstanding precept that countries should steer their own fates. ‘Abrupt Changes’: China Caught in a Bind Over Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z In Korean dramas, love conquers all and the characters always take the moral high road — reassuring at a moment when the real world can throw those precepts into doubt. Why the swoon-worthy romances of Korean TV are winning over American viewers 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z He writes that in rehearsals today, Stanislavski’s original precepts remain the building blocks for actors. Review: Can acting change the world? Isaac Butler argues that it already has 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Barrett argued that the inclusion of the son was necessary to protect her source and that she was “acting in accordance with the law and ethical precepts of the profession of journalism.” Freelance Writer Accuses The Atlantic of Defamation 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Barrett said in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in D.C. that the Atlantic “unlawfully smeared” her “for acting in accordance with the law and ethical precepts of the profession of journalism.” Ruth Shalit Barrett sues Atlantic for $1 million over retraction of viral article, allegations of inaccuracies 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters to rally support for the most basic precepts of the American system. Biden condemns Trump and his allies as a danger to democracy on the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z “He was not allowed to bless them, and he followed the precepts of the church at their marriage,” Dr. Ramphele said. Even in Retirement, Desmond Tutu Remained South Africa’s Moral Compass 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z The women live simple lifestyles and are governed by 311 precepts, including celibacy. In Buddhism, women blaze a path but strive for gender equity 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Below the schedule were a series of notes to herself that Holmes said were Balwani’s precepts: “I do everything I say, word for word” and “I show no excitement… calm, direct, pointed.” Elizabeth Holmes says Theranos’ former president abused her 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z That momentous juncture poses a character test for all Republicans, which turns on this question: Will they stand against the assault on democracy’s most basic precept, or will they tolerate it? Opinion | Glenn Youngkin has failed the test of character 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Well, imparting an “understanding of moral precepts and social norms” and getting a machine to “perceive real-world situations visually or by reading natural language descriptions.” The AI oracle of Delphi uses the wisdom of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z "Councils are particularly alarmed that the government's solution for tackling social care's core existing pressures appears to be solely through the use of council tax, and the social care precept." Council tax bills could rise by £220, IFS warns 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z This isn’t the only way in which basic precepts underlying economic policy are shifting beneath economists’ feet. Nobody Really Knows How the Economy Works. A Fed Paper Is the Latest Sign. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Cries of “rules should be relaxed,” she said, were “only made by those who are not faithful or proud of the religion they are born in, or else feel a deficit in its precepts.” They Helped Build Modern India but Are Shrinking as a Race 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Will nonetheless rejects what he sees as progressive ideological efforts, such as in the 1619 Project, to deprive the American story of “the moral majesty” of its Enlightenment precepts. Review | Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But elsewhere states: “We acknowledge that encapsulating ethical judgments based on some universal set of moral precepts is neither reasonable nor tenable.” The AI oracle of Delphi uses the wisdom of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Zen Buddhist precepts guide the meditations on our relationships with objects, and at times the narrative threatens to buckle under the weight of its conceptual burdens. Review: Objects and ideas come to life in Ruth Ozeki's mad, floating literary world 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Among those, according to testimony in Mr. Raniere’s trial, were precepts that portrayed woman as inferior and categorized anyone who questioned the group’s structure as destructive. Sex Cult Leader’s Top Deputy Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The government says it will publish details on the precept in the Spending Review next month. Will people already paying for care get extra help? And other questions 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z We need to begin with the fundamental precept that not all crimes are created equal. Laurence Tribe: If Garland doesn't prosecute Trump, the rule of law is "out the window" 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Whether planning for war or setting up his studio for a jazz recording, Mr. Sprey followed the same precept: “The whole essence of this is to judge everything by outcomes.” Pierre Sprey, Pentagon analyst who battled brass to produce A-10 warplane, dies at 83 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z This category also forbids content that threatens “the constitutional, social and economic precepts of the State, incite mobilizations or other acts that alter public order.” Opinion | Banning speech that harms Cuba’s ‘prestige’ is the government’s latest attempt to silence its critics 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Millions of Americans have explicitly rejected the scientific motivations of public health and the basic precepts of epidemiology. Perspective | Enforcing vaccine mandates is a new job for bouncers, not the police 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Your portfolio precepts will change over time and should be reviewed and adjusted every few years as part of regular maintenance. Adding more controls to your investment process 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z “That is certainly contrary to any of the most basic inspector general precepts and to the law that established my office,” he said. Whistle-blower advocates call for a top aide on the Jan. 6 panel to be removed. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z "What I try to do is demonstrate by precept and example how we are to proceed as a party," he said. The empire strikes back: Mainstream Dems try to crush the left in Buffalo and Cleveland 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Its first precept was “Learn to say, ‘I don’t know.’ Donald H. Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z “What I try to do is demonstrate by precept and example how we are to proceed as a party,” Mr. Clyburn said in an interview. No. 3 House Democrat Steps Into Ohio Race to Head Off a Sanders Acolyte 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The law imposes a fine or prison sentence on "anyone who offends the Prophet or denigrates the dogmatic precepts of Islam, whether it be by writings, drawings, a statement or another means". Algerian author Said Djabelkhir sentenced to jail for offending Islam 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z This time the reaction to the tape sparked global protests against police brutality, following the precepts of the already established Black Lives Matter movement. Derek Chauvin verdict: How the crack in the blue wall of silence should be exploited 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z At this pivotal moment, the core precepts of our democracy are once again at risk. Review | Seeing a threat to democracy in a conservative Supreme Court 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z One reportedly unaddressed concern mentioned in the lawsuit is the lack of policy exceptions for those who “maintain orthodox religious precepts about the distinct and complementary nature of male and female.” Northam’s office blasts lawsuits against Virginia schools’ transgender policy 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Even if we accept the contemporary parenting precept that every family is a dysfunctional family, the thought of being fully cut off from one's own blood is still appalling. Psychologist Joshua Coleman: How to contend with estranged family members 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z You'll notice an additional charge on your bill, known as the social care precept. Covid: What is council tax and should it go up in the pandemic? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z That reaction was criticized as excessive, but it followed some key police precepts. How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a ‘monumental’ security failure 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, strategic trends, analytics precepts and history itself are not on Henry’s side. Enjoy Derrick Henry’s High-Mileage Fun. History Shows It’s Unsustainable. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z In Maryland, the problem is even more complicated: Lawmakers are under heavy pressure from the state’s most powerful special interest group — the teachers unions and bureaucrats who dominate public education — to violate Keynes’s precepts. Opinion | Will Maryland Democrats ‘tax into the wind’? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The associations had argued that the decree did not allow believers to properly practice their religion because it prevented them from obtaining meat from animals slaughtered in accordance with their religious precepts. EU states can require stunning before ritual slaughter 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z If one of the precepts of sustainability is wasting as little as possible, few animals have been honored so completely, and for so long, as the reindeer. In the Arctic, Reindeer Are Sustenance and a Sacred Presence 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z And loyalty was a key Kappa Alpha precept. Fraternity That Reveres Robert E. Lee Faces Revolt Over Racism 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The danger is an America that forgets this nation was built upon God, by the precepts of a Creator in heaven. Anthony Fauci, the great ‘humanist,’ sets U.S. sailing on globalist, anti-freedom course 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Then a government-controlled religious council defrocked the monk for having violated Buddhist precepts of celibacy. Threatened by Facebook Disinformation, a Monk Flees Cambodia 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z The voting criteria for the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year is one who leads by precept and example and in this country’s darkest moment, Jordan, unprompted, personally rallied club captains to establish #PlayersTogether.” Henderson voted player of year in England by soccer writers 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z One of the precepts of “All of Us” is to share the results of its studies with participants as well as involve them in study designs. NIH delves into COVID-19 racial disparities with 'All of Us' 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “To try and run in the general on the primary’s precepts I think would be missing this immense moment in American history,” Biden’s vision comes into view, and it’s much more liberal than it was 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z That precept applies to crown princes, past and present. Opinion | The dazzling rise and tragic fall of Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Nayef 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Anyone in today’s China who openly challenges this precept will end up in jail or worse. Q&A: Inspired by Reagan to come to America, Miles Yu now helps form China policy 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “Different people figure out ways to live out the Beatitudes,” Daloisio says, referring to the precepts outlined in the Sermon on the Mount. 'One of the gentlest people I know:' 75-year-old shoved by police a peace activist, not a provocateur 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z That prompted a follow up from Kagan: “But it’s also true and, indeed, a fundamental precept of our constitutional order that a president isn’t above the law.” Supreme Court debate over Trump’s tax returns, business records points to a mixed outcome 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Or, even worse, that I had in my head a set of precepts, positions and even a theory, if not several, that I could trot out to order. Confessions of an art critic: 'I have been known to go about on all fours' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Now, for their part, the ayatollahs of Iran and their henchmen in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards use the precepts of their religion in order to pseudo-legitimize their brutal and oppressive rule. The Ayatollah in the White House 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet before the precepts of Western medicine were normalized, humans relied on the natural world to heal themselves, and in most cases took a preventative approach to medicine. No longer foes, science and herbalism find common cause 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z It bears recalling that France is by now almost onto its sixth Republic, while the United States teeters along with the political structures and precepts formulated at the time of the passage of the U.S. When Brezhnev comes to America: gerontocracy in action 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “The faithful are consequently exempt from their obligation to fulfil the festive precept,” a statement from Cardinal Angelo De Donatis said. Coronavirus latest: at a glance 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Rachel Friedman, 16, raised a blue plastic pack of Oreos: These, she said, are kosher, meaning the cookies were prepared in accordance with Jewish culinary precepts. ‘Like Judaism 101’: To fight anti-Semitism, program sends Jewish teens into classrooms 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z In the two decades since Mr. Welch left G.E., many of the management precepts he personified have fallen out of favor. Jack Welch, G.E. Chief Who Became a Business Superstar, Dies at 84 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z "My conclusion about Mr. Trump's unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics," she wrote in an op-ed at the time. Susan Collins dodges questions about whether she voted for President Trump in Maine's GOP primary 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But the changes — some of which lean on the precepts of Andrew S. Grove, the former Intel chief executive who coined the credo “Only the paranoid survive” — are Intel’s biggest attitude adjustment in decades. Intel’s Culture Needed Fixing. Its C.E.O. Is Shaking Things Up. 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z All but two of these are proposing to include a 2% social care precept, ring fenced for care services, it said. Households in England 'to face council tax rises' 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z For now, the Politburo will surely support Xi, following the precept of authoritarian states that leaders must hang together or they will each hang separately. Opinion | How the coronavirus threatens Xi’s ‘Chinese dream’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z “Dr. Calkins treats word recognition as a reasoning problem — like solving a puzzle. She is dedicated to the educational precept that children learn best by discovering how systems work rather than being told.” Perspective | Read all about it: The ‘reading wars’ are back in America’s education salons 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z He is known as an unusually outspoken bishop, willing to harshly criticize Catholics he believed were violating precepts of the religion and refuse Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion or euthanasia. Pope Francis appoints a new archbishop of Philadelphia, replacing a prominent conservative prelate 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Neman said he was inspired by Patagonia, the clothing company that promotes recycling and other environmental precepts. In a Burger World, Can Sweetgreen Scale Up? 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z The Foundry was in a continual quest to discover its purpose, but it was guided by precepts. What the Foundry's Melanie Joseph and Playwrights Horizons' Tim Sanford mean to theater 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The time that produced Mr. Trump has proved to be another one, a moment when the unthinkable has become routine and precepts that once seemed inviolable have been tested. A President Impeached, and a Nation Convulsed 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z One of the precepts of the AC4P program is a piece that acquaints and fosters kindness in young children. Elementary school adopts national kindness initiative 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The American conservative establishment initially balked at Donald Trump, too, before creeping to his defense — jettisoning, along the way, every moral precept held within their movement. Abandoning Everything You Ever Believed, for Brexit. (Or Trump.) 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The group positioned itself as a champion of the disenfranchised – willing to reclaim lost glories and restore Islamic precepts. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death comes as new order takes shape in Middle East 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Tinsley said that, although eviction was a legal reality, it’s also largely irrelevant because the monks’ Buddhist precepts prohibit them from owning personal property; in any situation, they must rely on donations. Monks' eviction from Long Beach Cambodian Buddhist temple riles congregation 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z If one of your precepts is to “stay away from contentious persons,” you should be able to oblige your spouse and remain true to yourself as well. Can I Quit Trying to Teach Ethics to Ill-Behaved Children? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Mono-ha may be ancient history to Lee, but his installations still appear to follow its central precept. ‘Lee Ufan: Open Dimension’ transforms the Hirshhorn’s outdoor plaza, subtly 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The concept is not a settled legal precept, since it has been open to varying interpretations, and it remains a controversial, litigated part of government business. What is ‘executive privilege’? A source of controversy in every recent administration 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The precept that society should be based on reason, facts and universal truths has been a guiding theme of modern times. How science has shifted our sense of identity 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s a cop-out on one level, but on another his words underscore a precept of responsible identity politicking: Check your privilege, the exhortation-turned-cliché goes. Opinion | Justin Trudeau says his privilege made him do it 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z It is based on the precepts of nonviolence and non-possessiveness, he wrote. In Montgomery County’s Cloverly area, room to breathe and places to pray 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z "The basic precept of science is, don't tell me. Show me. Prove it," he said. Tucker challenges Dems' climate change rhetoric: 'They're hypocrites and liars' 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z That moral equation has always been a fundamental precept of our national character. Opinion | America, please look beyond your self interest and do your duty 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The researchers isolated 119 “sensory precepts,” or perceptions, from their subject. A Robot Hand Helps Amputees "Feel" Again 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z That statement, which I issued last week, citing this basic precept of election law, drew a surprising amount of attention. Opinion | Foreign spending in our elections is a threat to our national sovereignty 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z She added parish precepts were "relatively small" in cash terms, and may represent one off costs, such as village hall repairs. Parish tax bills rise to 'save services' 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Since independence the sultan has pushed Brunei towards an ever-stricter observance of Islamic precepts. Inside the silent nation of Brunei 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Reporting abuse and coverups to church authorities was “formerly left up to individual consciences, it now becomes a universally established legal precept,” said Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Vatican's communications department. Pope Francis issues law requiring priests and nuns to report sex abuse and coverup 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “I returned to my basic precept … the safety of the people is the supreme law. I was determined to keep the peace and avoid bloodshed.” Ex-US Sen Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings of South Carolina dead 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z In their time under Islamic State, the children crowding Al Hol’s dust-swept tents were given a syllabus suffused with the militant group’s ideology, a toxic interpretation of Sunni Islamic precepts. Students in Syria are a textbook case for post-Islamic State reeducation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The figure we're talking about is the "police precept" - the portion of your council tax that goes to the local police force. Why am I paying more tax to the police? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Kansas, No. 18-6135, lawyers for Mr. Kahler wrote that the state’s approach “defies a fundamental, centuries-old precept of our legal system: People cannot be punished for crimes for which they are not morally culpable.” Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Lee Malvo, the D.C. Sniper 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The younger Bullard thought that the precepts of Sigmund Freud were the keys to treating patients. Perspective | Paging Dr. Freud: Remembering Rockville’s Chestnut Lodge 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z He was one of those who defied the usual precept—that, despite all the power talk, the only people who could really make anything happen were the seven or twelve bankable stars. “The Starlet Apartments” 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The bot project is an example of how Seattle University is combining innovative approaches with the university’s mission and Jesuit values, specifically the precept of cura personalis, or “care of the whole person.” Can bots help build a better world? | Provided by Seattle University School for New and Continuing Studies 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The precept naturists hold the most sacred is body acceptance — to “not judge anyone by their body shape or other war wounds” and to ignore the nakedness of others. Letter of Recommendation: Naturism 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The Islamic State’s territory was a beacon for would-be Islamist militants from around the world who wanted to wage war and live according to ultraconservative Islamic precepts. France to take back ISIS fighters, reversing policy in wake of U.S. withdrawal from Syria 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Aside from deviating from the “one man one vote” precept of voter equality, the Electoral College distorts presidential campaigns in other ways. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The House speaker is fond of three precepts; spend time with her and you’ll hear them all. Nancy Pelosi is winning in her battle with Trump. Here's why 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Abandon that precept, and you undermine the moral basis of our common American citizenship. Can I Cut Off a Relative With Hateful Views? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z As this generation enters its final years, the precept that life is precious irrespective of one’s medical condition is being called into question as never before. Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z So, I would look for legislation that is true to that general precept. Q&A | Gov. Jay Inslee on wins and losses in Olympia and the arc of the moral universe 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z But as its true precepts have taken root in reformers, Christian faith has also been a powerful source of criticism of those practices. Opinion | Evangelicals have hired their own Goliath 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Pelosi’s real goal is to establish a new balance of power for the next two years — reflecting her fourth precept: “Congress is a co-equal branch of government.” Nancy Pelosi is winning in her battle with Trump. Here's why 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z That old-style political world wasn’t pretty, nor was it unduly constrained by fastidious legal or ethical precepts. Opinion | Trump doesn’t seem to value anything — except himself 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But it has been a governing precept for our civilization since long before they started taking legacies at Andover. George Bush, exceptionalist 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Some Republicans, in response, labelled basic constitutional rights and fundamental precepts of American identity as radical and dangerous, and smeared those who seek to uphold them. Want proof that voting matters? Trump and his forces don’t want you to do it 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “I think we all followed that precept, of not thinking that we were bureaucrats in Washington telling the people, ‘We don’t really value this; why’d you send this up here?’ William J. Murtagh, ‘pied piper’ of American historic preservation, dies at 95 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Accomplishing that requires a new IT mindset, applying the precepts of agile not just in software development or operations but to the larger organization. Developing your agile mindset | Provided by Virginia Tech 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z His campaign would effectively be an effort to reshape it, and there is clear recent precedent for electoral success by a billionaire who starts a campaign distant from his party’s precepts. As his newly adopted party hugs the left, Michael Bloomberg aims for the center 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z He added that some aspects of democracy run up against elements of Bhutanese culture, which is deeply influenced by Buddhist precepts. In tiny Bhutan, known for its pursuit of happiness, democracy brings discontent 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z They appealed to religious precepts; most of the farmers practice Sikhism, whose sacred text emphasizes the holiness of nature. India is trying to prevent apocalyptic air pollution. Step 1: Stop farmers from burning their fields. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “It is worth noting, though, that this structure can at times conflict with the precept that all men are created equal,” he wrote. Kavanaugh coping mechanisms: 5 wild Dem schemes to counter Trump's SCOTUS win 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z We often praise hypocrisy in these columns since it tends to reinforce valuable precepts. FBI report on Kavanaugh could arrive today 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z When she was 21, Anat Hazan told Ms. Pulwer, she shaved her “mischievous light brown curls” in accordance with the religious precept that a married woman’s hair should be only for her husband. A Glimpse Inside the Hidden World of Hasidic Women 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Democracy is compromised when the media, in an abundance of caution and for purposes of political correctness, ignore these fundamental precepts. Opinion | The media is late to the party on calling out the president’s lies 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z As potentially the final word on his recorded legacy, Simon overrules that precept on “In the Blue Light.” Paul Simon, in home stretch of farewell tour, talks of unique journey through his past for 'In the Blue Light' album 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “Duty, honor, country. It is hard in politics to abide by its precepts, but life is never more difficult for me than when I have strayed from those precepts.” Inside the Beltway: Liberals are hard-wired to protest says Gallup poll 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The State Religious Affairs Administration said Xuecheng also faces censure from the government-backed Buddhist Association on suspicion of "violating Buddhist precepts." World Digest: Aug. 23, 2018 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z As she learned more, Ms. Pulwer became intrigued by the community’s adherence to biblical precepts that strictly delimit the roles of men and women. A Glimpse Inside the Hidden World of Hasidic Women 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Local councils get their money from a share of council tax, which is paid to them by higher tier authorities in the form of a precept. Where have all the public toilets gone? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z These are good questions, and they reflect a precept I learned years ago: Substantive fiscal policy work is essential, but all the good policy thinking in the world won’t matter unless the politics works. Opinion | America’s debt has exploded. Why does no one care? 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Buddhism’s ethical precepts—right speech, right action and so on—are intended to keep liberated practitioners from becoming fearless, nihilistic jerks. Buddhism, the Good and the Bad 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z When he listed the four or six or whatever precepts or pillars of Dzogchen, he invariably forgot one, perhaps to let us know we shouldn’t worry too much about doctrine. A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Emma Green of the Atlantic praised the pope's decision, noting that it was consistent with his larger effort to modernize Catholic teachings while connecting them with the church's ancient philosophical precepts: Pope Francis declares death penalty unacceptable: New effort to refocus scandal-plagued church? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z He took a mish-mash of Buddhist and Hindu precepts, stirred in a bit of Nostradamus, added a huge dollop of reverence for himself and charged acolytes their life’s savings for devotional tapes, books and guidance. On the hanging of Shoko Asahara, Japan’s nerve-gas guru 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But they are united against a precept that defined Silicon Valley for decades: that technological progress is by definition good for society. The New Tech Avengers 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z But his Syrian strategy evokes the subtler Chinese precept of subduing the enemy without fighting. Opinion | Is Trump handing Putin a victory in Syria? 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z From free trade to the virtues of negotiating with dictators, Trump has made a series of dramatic moves in recent weeks that have alienated longtime allies and bucked decades-old, core precepts of the Republican Party. “There’s No Stopping Him”: Trump Insists on a Russia Summit 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Warner said he had been heartened by recent moves by Facebook and Twitter to endorse the Honest Ads Act, and to adopt some of its precepts voluntarily. Congress roasted Facebook on TV, but won’t hear any bills to regulate it 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Rather, we are in the world of norms, precepts essential to the functioning of a constitutional democracy. Trump's disgraceful assault on the DOJ is an attack on the rule of law | Lawrence Douglas 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Just like the IFA mess, basic transparency - or ethical precepts - were merely an annoyance. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z This raises a more fundamental question: are you a Muslim if you don’t follow religious precepts, or even hold religious beliefs? Can you be a Muslim if you're an atheist? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z He described Baker’s key precept: “Yield on process issues in order to hold the line on substantive questions.” Opinion | Trump’s war cabinet is now complete 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z What’s more, critics said, some of these new clinical trials ended in death — violating one of medicine’s fundamental precepts, to “first do no harm.” James F. Holland, physician who helped show chemotherapy could treat cancer, dies at 92 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z A precept from the 1970s, said originally about television, is applicable to technology and media: If you are not paying for a product, then YOU are the product. Before you #DeleteFacebook, try taking control of your account 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Though influenced by U.K. systems thinking, the approach was decidedly eastern, its precepts inspired by the emphasis on social relationships in Chinese culture. A revered rocket scientist set in motion China's mass surveillance of its citizens 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z These aims might seem unrealistic, but they are core precepts of the North’s ideology. The Trump-Kim Summit 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “Do you disagree with anything, the precepts you told me about?” she said, referencing Traditionalist Worker Party doctrine. ‘I don’t know how you got this way’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Attempting to burn the calories these elite athletes do to sustain their equilibrium would be injurious to most people who are ignorant of the mechanical and psychological precepts of extreme exercise. Olympic Cross-Country Skiers Eat 8,000 Calories a Day. It’s Exhausting. 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Whether they will also be happy to hear its precepts repeated, over and over, in an ever more sermonesque style is another matter, and that is one more area where the film falters. Review | ‘Bilal’ review: Ancient story of a real-life Muslim hero is pretty but feels like theology class 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Sound symbolism and letter structure are his company’s key precepts. How Car Companies Decide You’ll Ride a Mustang or Catch a Tiguan 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Several of his early decisions, initially seen as controversial, broadened basic precepts of international criminal law. Yugoslavia Tribunal Leaves Rich Legacy, but ‘Immense’ Challenges Remain 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The mayor's share of council tax is split into money which goes to the Met, called the policing precept, and funds for other services, known as the non-policing precept. Sadiq Khan proposes council tax rise 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Amid concerns about the growing cost of social care, ministers gave councils powers in 2015 to charge a 2% precept for each of the next three years to pay specifically for care of the elderly. Council tax bills may rise by up to 5.99% 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Conversely, many religions are on Santa’s side, preaching the idea that individuals who follow ethical precepts will be richly rewarded. Perspective | Being naughty or nice is a question for science as well as for Santa 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It amazes me how cavalierly those who promote this travesty pick and choose legal precepts solely for their benefit, creating an inhumane and comically unjust situation. The 11.26.17 Issue 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But we should be wary of stretching the precept to situations where it doesn’t naturally apply. Opinion | We’re misunderstanding due process 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Police and crime commissioners as well as mayors - including Mr Khan - will now be able to raise the policing precept by £12 per household annually. Sadiq Khan proposes council tax rise 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Combined with the 3% "precept" for those councils funding social care, it means some bills could rise by up to 5.99% without voters having a say. Council tax bills may rise by up to 5.99% 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It is wrong to describe Trump as any kind of nationalist if he fails to grasp the most fundamental of nationalistic precepts: We leave none of our own on the battlefield. Opinion | Abandoning Puerto Rico would be an impeachable offense 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z We live in a country which was founded on the precept that individual liberty is more important than the collective good – “give me liberty or give me death”, “live free or die”. 'I seriously doubt the laws will change': Guardian readers' views on gun control 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Certainly slavery was contrary to America’s stated democratic precepts, conceded Morgan, but in fact, it was slavery that allowed American democracy to exist in the first place. We should have seen Trump coming | Ta-Nehisi Coates 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The mayor's share of council tax is split into money which goes to the Met, called the policing precept, and funds for other services, known as the non-policing precept. Sadiq Khan proposes council tax rise 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z "It is a moral precept upon which this country was founded," Moore told him. 6 of the Most Extreme Things GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore Has Said 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z And two years ago, while upholding gay marriages, Kennedy said the “1st Amendment ensures … proper protection” for people “with the utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned.” Colorado cake maker asks Supreme Court to provide a religious liberty right to refuse gay couple 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Wright alludes to the moral teachings of Buddhism, but he does not show how these precepts resolve the sorts of ethical and social questions that confront humans as political animals endowed with reason. Review | Meditation can make us happy, but can it also make us good? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Nor does Eisinger address the precept that guided me, as a public-corruption federal prosecutor in the 1990s, to decline many more cases than I pursued. Review | Why federal prosecutors often wimp out in going after financial malfeasance 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The increased precept threshold will contribute to an overall injection of £450m into policing, which Mr Hurd described as "comprehensive" and allows local police forces to be "more effective". Sadiq Khan proposes council tax rise 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The precepts are so broad as to be meaningless—and wide open to abuse. Who will fill the void left by Pakistan’s sacked prime minister? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It is a precept of natural law, a theory of universal legal principles that Neil Gorsuch, Mr Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, generally finds persuasive. Can Donald Trump pardon himself? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Monks are these days often used more as deliverers of semi-religious rituals - like blessing new cars or houses for good luck - than practitioners of the 227 precepts. Thailand monks: Wirapol Sukphol case highlights country's Buddhism crisis - BBC News 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The Chinese precept, concluded the American researchers, was “do not engage on controversial issues.” Opinion | How China tames dissent on the Internet 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Small and free is also the concept behind the wildly popular tiny house movement, whose precept of living in 300 sq ft or less challenges the McMansions that dominate US suburbs. In Thoreau's footsteps: my journey to Walden for the bicentennial of the original de-clutterer 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z There is another, related precept, relevant to climate change: the classic understanding of the relationship between government and industry. Is a car maker about to save the planet? | Zoe Williams 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Halpern would never recommend such a protocol, however, because it would violate precepts of the Native American Church. Tripping on Peyote in Navajo Nation 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z In yet another rebuke from outside Congress, the A.M.A., the nation’s largest physicians organization, declared, “Medicine has long operated under the precept of primum non nocere, or ‘first, do no harm.’ Senate Republicans Revise Health Bill to Penalize Uninsured 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z What happens when we ignore this precept and attack our political adversaries head-on? Opinion | How China tames dissent on the Internet 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z An Iranian government institution promoting sports and a healthy lifestyle effectively banned Zumba classes for being contrary to Islamic precepts. Precision and Attack: Benjamin Millepied’s ‘In Silence We Speak’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The decision was made "in conformity with Islamic precepts that call for solidarity and mutual aid between Muslim people, notably during this holy month of Ramadan", according to a foreign ministry statement. Turkey's Erdogan decries Qatar's 'inhumane' isolation - BBC News 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The actor, who goes by Michael, had arrived wearing an outfit that seemed to embody this precept: black suit, white sneakers, tomato-red T-shirt, Ninja Turtle-green backpack. From John Hughes to Michael Flynn 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The prepared remarks do indeed show Trump saying “Islamist extremism,” which is the correct term when referring to the political movements that attempt to create governments based around Islamic theological precepts. Donald Trump is “exhausted,” his staffers say, and that’s why he’s committing some gffes 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z If the charges against Mr. Little are true, then he violated a basic precept of the legal profession by misusing the confidential information of a client. Why People Persist in Risky Trading 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Recent actions by the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University, he argues, betray this legal precept. Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z More than just a retroactive critique of policy, Simon’s transparency in planning “An Occupation of Loss” grounds its more unknowable precepts. A Virtual Tour of a Larger-Than-Life Art Installation 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Funds involved in Islamic finance are sometimes classified as "Sharia-compliant," or adhering to religious precepts such as avoiding investments in alcoholic beverage companies and businesses making or receiving interest payments. In the Trump era, one U.S. Muslim investor tries a louder voice 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z After explaining that she had picked up the precepts of medieval palmistry decades ago, from an art-historian neighbor whose specialty was Hieronymus Bosch, Atwood spent several disconcerting minutes poring over my hands. Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z And he agreed with Adams that “moral precepts, innate in man,” bolstered by the general principles laid down by religion, helped avert a human-produced hell. Listen to John Adams and reclaim liberty from conservatives: The GOP is not at all in the business of expanding liberty as the founders envisioned 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z We pass on a few precepts about the universe but leave the brain to figure out the rest. A.I. Versus M.D. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Each of us should be judged by how we respond at this moment when the most fundamental precept of our democracy has been violated. Perspective | The Clinton campaign warned you about Russia. But nobody listened to us. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z It is not an easy question to answer, since it violates all precepts of basic decency. Has the Trump budget blown Republican’s cover? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z There was a time when I wondered bleakly if Donald Trump may be exempt from this philosophical precept. In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, hints of reality are dawning | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But we know also that the rites and the precepts of the Gospels and Epistles both are to be found on every other page of the literature of the sect. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Hence the nation’s foundational precepts need to be carefully studied, robustly debated and thoughtfully celebrated. Opinion | The intellectual diversity we need 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Toski was and is a brilliant and independent thinker whose teaching precepts crept into the methods of every teacher who followed. In a new Bob Toski biography, the 'Mouse' roars again - Golf Digest 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z For every cynical Machiavellian precept, I found two or three others that clashed with it. Have we got Machiavelli all wrong? 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z The American people, and indeed American democracy, require a thorough and independent investigation into what transpired and whether any criminal laws or constitutional precepts were violated. Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Jeff Sessions must recuse himself from the Flynn investigation 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Rules, like taxes, are the cost of civilization - one of the precepts of American greatness. Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z One of the policies was the social care precept. Reality Check: What's the deal with council tax increases? - BBC News 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z From around 2007, Yarvin, a computer scientist, started producing a body of work which rejected liberal precepts of equality, progress and democratic government. Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Francis made the reference during his weekly Wednesday catechism lesson, dedicated to the general Christian precepts of hope and forgiveness in forging peace. Pope repeats 'bridges not walls' after Trump travel ban 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Psychology aside, this is an odd book in many ways, especially for its unorthodox approach to the precepts of organised religion. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 53 – The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902) 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Hatemongering against immigrants, minorities and various designated “others” has gone mainstream universally – even in Germany, whose post-Nazi politics and culture were founded on the precept “Never Again”. The Divided States: Trump's inauguration and how democracy has failed 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z So a rise of exactly 5%, including the social care precept, would trigger a referendum. Reality Check: What's the deal with council tax increases? - BBC News 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s about the use of a different lens to examine the challenges and precepts of an entire politics, economy and society. The Canada experiment: is this the world's first 'postnational' country? 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “If social care is part of the prime minister’s promise of a more equal country that works for everyone, then the precept is a poor policy instrument to achieve it,” says Mr Humphries. Taxes will rise to fund care for Britain’s elderly 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the announcement, expected on Thursday, was likely to anger councils who say the social care precept is already inadequate. Councils' social care cash to be 'brought forward' - BBC News 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z His Rule of St. Benedict, a series of teachings for monks, formed the basic precepts for thousands of monasteries in Europe. Italian Monastery Seeks Salvation in Beer After Devastating Quake 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z A further complicating factor is that the 3% precept doesn't apply to the whole of your council tax bill. Reality Check: What's the deal with council tax increases? - BBC News 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z “They are all unjust acts by a traditional society, far more restrictive than what is lawfully allowed by the precepts of religion.” Saudi prince calls for end to country’s 'unjust' ban on women driving 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Last year the government allowed them to levy an additional 2% “precept”, hypothecated to social care, every year for four years, a move that 95% of councils adopted in the first year. Taxes will rise to fund care for Britain’s elderly 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z But it would be perverse to apply that precept only to Cuba. Fidel Castro’s demise can’t guarantee freedom for the people of Cuba 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z And good monikers are still defined by Young’s precept that a name should somehow evoke the fundamental qualities that you hope to advertise. What’s in a Brand Name? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Then, in the aftermath of the Cold War, both parties embraced the precepts of globalization along with a militarized approach to exercising global leadership. Donald Trump’s election reveals that we are two nations 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess‘ heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one.” 'The Crown' and the True History of Princess Margaret's Doomed Romance 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A major tenet of official Saudi Islamic teaching is obedience to rulers — hardly a precept that encourages terrorism intended to break nations. Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Though I cherished them both, I found myself wondering — as students inevitably do — whether I agreed with their precepts. Lessons on Dying From David Bowie and My Friends 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z This year’s Republican platform proclaims that the Declaration “sets forth the fundamental precepts of American Government.” What the Founding Fathers Would Have Thought of Donald Trump 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Cargo-cult scientists, like the islanders, do everything right, Feynman said: They “follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.” Hostage to a Bull Market 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z They had never published anything like what Baehrel had in mind—a coffee-table book outlining the precepts of his Native Harvest cuisine—but they thought, Why not try? The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The narrative fits a commonsense precept among education reformers: that higher expectations lead to better outcomes. Crash course in credit recovery yields best-ever graduation rate of 75% for L.A. schools 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z “My conclusion about Mr. Trump’s unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics,” Ms. Collins wrote. Susan Collins of Maine Says She Will Not Vote for Donald Trump 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z My conclusion about Mr. Trump’s unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics. GOP senator Susan Collins: Why I cannot support Trump 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The main precept here is a sort of D.I.Y. bed: mattresses and pillows are made from zippered pockets stuffed with plant materials you can add to or remove. The Pillow Cure 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Everything is judged according to sacred precepts—“harmony,” “impulsion,” “self-carriage,” “submission”—that have come down intact from the ancien régime. The Duo That Dominates Dressage 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Even if the law disappeared tomorrow, the legal precepts and ethical norms that long preceded it would remain in place — as would many of the frustrations cited by HIPAA’s most ardent detractors. Five myths about patient privacy 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It doesn't come with any sort of "pressure to conform to its precepts", and it most certainly does not have to be expensive. The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The upshot of Carnegie’s philosophy—some would call it a series of nostrums—is something any good mother teaches her children, and a precept Roman poet Publilius Syrus voiced in 85 B.C.: Still Winning Friends and Influencing People 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “And we don’t accept this and in fact the precepts of Islam have nothing to do with this act.” The Latest: American student confirmed among Nice dead 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Osteen and Trump share the same core prosperity precepts, holding that God pushes them and their discerning followers undeviatingly upward to greater success. How the prosperity gospel explains Donald Trump’s popularity with Christian voters 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Accordingly, the North Korea government said it would handle all matters with the United States – including the treatment of American prisoners – under the precepts of wartime law. North Korea Fully Severs Communication with U.S. 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Today’s minimalism, by contrast, is visually oppressive; it comes with an inherent pressure to conform to its precepts. The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Even President Obama described the idea that each generation should be wealthier than the one before as a “founding precept” of the American Dream. Five myths about class in America 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z But the second-generation killers pose a different issue: how to keep children of immigrants from abandoning the precepts of their adopted home. American-born children of immigrants proving fruitful recruiting ground for jihad in U.S. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The App Store’s basic precept of buying and owning apps is at odds with these new ways of developing and distributing software. App subscriptions were always inevitable 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z “To not engage with a state because it is flawed is not a wise precept,” he said. A retired general was tapped for leadership at Northwestern, but opponents derailed the appointment 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “Are we going to follow God in all of his precepts?” Pastors congregate in D.C. to discuss politics, religion 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Far from killing the Republican Party, Trump is restoring it to its old precepts: nationalism, economic protectionism, and nativism. History lesson for Paul Ryan: The Republicans have always been Donald Trump’s party 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z SATs are inconsistent with the Common Core precepts, which emphasizes persistence for math and science. Rethinking College Admissions 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z But disregarding its precepts in the midst of crisis is a recipe for future instability. A recipe for instability in Brazil 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Liberal Democrat Caroline Pidgeon committed to retaining the Olympic precept in order to invest in council housing, telling the audience: "I'm going to put money into this - I'm not just talking the talk." London mayoral election: Candidates clash over 'nonsense' housing claims - BBC News 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z He advocated church leaders consult local schools about whether they will follow Mr. Obama’s precept. Pastors congregate in D.C. to discuss politics, religion 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The case implicates the Constitution’s separation of powers and the basic precepts of self-government. ‘I Am President. I Am Not King’ 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z But Tywin is also a philosopher of the subject of power, with his every precept learned first from experience and then refined by his understanding. The Raw Appeal of “Game of Thrones” 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Yet they consistently dive in one direction or the other, ignoring the precept that “sometimes the best move is no move at all.” Why the best baseball managers are often mediocre players 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The framers enshrined these precepts in our Constitution to protect our individual liberty. Government Stumps Trump 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z You can follow the precepts of theory or just go on your nerve. Critics in the Age of Opinion 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Poorly written and atrociously reasoned, Citizens United rests on three simple, absurd precepts: Money is speech; corporations are people; and corruption is OK so long as it is sanctioned. “It’s the corruption, stupid”: Hillary’s too compromised to see what Donald Trump understands 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z I am a teacher of rhetoric, not according to the magical thinking of Gorgias but rather to the precepts of Plato and Aristotle, who insisted on the place of logic and ethics in rhetorical practice. America needs reality, not ‘magic’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z "Last year we protected police budgets for the next four years, once local precept is taken into account," he added. Police forces 'sleepwalking' away from communities - BBC News 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z But it was not without controversy and the rise in the precept is being reduced again from April. Parish councils may face referendum cap over 'excessive' tax - BBC News 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Those who dare to flee or violate Islamic State’s precepts are swiftly shot in the head. Long after most U.S. troops have left Iraq, civilians are dying in 'obscene' numbers 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z That’s a precept that can be found in some variation in most of the world’s religions. What would Martin Luther King do? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Placing him in American political terms, Francis comes across as the executive-order pontiff, accomplishing what he can under his own authority rather than devoting himself to the battle to transform laws and precepts. Pope Francis wants to hear your confession 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Whereas some forces increased their precepts by just a few percent each year, others went for broke: in North Yorkshire the police more than trebled the amount raised from local taxation in 2000-10. Counting up the coppers 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z At first glance, the largest percentage rise in parish council tax precepts is an eye-watering one at almost 1,200%. Parish councils may face referendum cap over 'excessive' tax - BBC News 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z As the years pass, and his health declines, Stellman finds it harder to impart his precepts. Pool is Racine Hall of Famer’s true passion 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z He argues that the government is an institution of God and therefore its purpose is ‘to promote righteousness’ and to apply ‘God’s principles and precepts.’ Cruz continues to lock up far-right support 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z This raised the question of whether physicians are altering abortion techniques to accommodate research requests, violating a widely held precept of research ethics. The truth about fetal tissue research 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The shift began in 1995, when forces gained the ability to raise money by adding a supplementary “precept” to council tax, a local property levy. Counting up the coppers 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z "You see many of the people in the film accepting more or less unquestioningly the precepts of the Germans and the Japanese," says Somin. 'The Man in the High Castle': Powerful Questions About Terror and Freedom 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z He lifted educational standards, created academic majors and introduced the small-group classes, often led by professors, known as precepts. At Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, a Heralded Alum, Is Recast as an Intolerant One 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z “The House language violates the basic precept that ‘ignorance of the law is no defense,’” Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, told the Huffington Post. The Kochs, loathsome to the end: The real reason they’re interested in criminal justice reform 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He argues that the government is an institution of God and therefore its purpose is ‘to promote righteousness’ and to apply ‘God’s principles and precepts.’ This Week in God, 11.21.15 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z “There is no black or white, a simple yes or no” when it comes to couples not living according to the church’s precepts, he said. Voice Is Sought at the Vatican on Remarriage 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The candidate later said he was only talking about Muslims who did not reject sharia law and other precepts he considered anti-constitutional. Ben Carson's healing hands and bedside manner have GOP donors dreaming 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z “He’s following the original precepts of the church: Love one another.” Pope Departs, After Showing a Deft Touch 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z According to the Confucian precept, those who want to rule have to first think small. Calls For More Autonomy, Or Independence, Grow in Hong Kong 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The pope touched on political issues — including immigration, climate change and the sanctity of life — but his core message was the simplest precept of tolerance and faith: the “Golden Rule.” The paradox of Pope Francis’s power 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Currently, each police force's budget is made up of central government grants plus an additional "precept" that is collected as part of council tax bills. Police cuts not fully understood - MPs - BBC News 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But now I hear it for what it is: a great song that adapted rap’s precepts to suit Blondie’s own style. Blondie – 10 of the best 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The vision of Amazon's office culture set up in the New York Times article really is no deviation from the classic precepts of managerial capitalism. Viewpoint: Are Amazon's feedback tactics unusual? - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Like many self-identified American Christians, I grew up calling myself such while adhering to few of the precepts and never going to church. I was betrayed by Republican religion: What my years as a Christian fundamentalist taught be about right-wing faith 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Moses is named in its verses more than any other person, and its doctrine of prophecy derives ultimately from the Hebrew Bible, but its precepts are much more forceful and potent than biblical ones. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet three precepts are always worth bearing in mind. The enemy within 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z “If we do not struggle with the arrogant power we are not following the precepts of the holy Quran. America is the quintessential arrogant power. Be ready for struggle with the arrogant power.” Iran Nuclear Talks Still Face ‘Difficult Issues,’ Kerry Says 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet others appeared to be speaking more from their hearts as they likened Coke’s switcheroo to a blasphemous assault on their most cherished icons and precepts. What Coca-Cola’s Marketing Blunder Can Teach Us About America 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The most important precept, after all, is the universal truth of suffering. Enlightenment on Your iPhone 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z He said First Amendment protections are in place for religious objectors, who “may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned.” Religious liberty is rallying cry after gay marriage ruling 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z He said First Amendment protections are in place for religious objectors, who "may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned." Religious liberty is rallying cry after gay marriage ruling 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Some religious leaders took similar heart in Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s words that religious people “may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned.” Gay marriage: Religious leaders reject ruling as legal battles loom 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The challenged laws burden the liberty of same-sex couples, and they abridge central precepts of equality. A Supreme decision on gay marriage 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “The challenged laws burden the liberty of same-sex couples, and they abridge central precepts of equality,” the ruling, written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, declares. The Supreme Court officially catches up with America on gay marriage 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “It is now clear that the challenged laws burden the liberty of same-sex couples, and it must be further acknowledged that they abridge central precepts of equality,” they argued. Gay marriage declared legal across the US in historic supreme court ruling 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “His own success is testament to the job-creating achievements made possible when one applies the courageous and tenacious pro-private sector precepts we need to fire up the economy,” she said. Trump and Palin pizza date, round two? 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z "By no means do we want to replace mosques. The mosque's role is clearly identified in Islam's precepts," said Yosra Farrouj, another of the founders. French app hopes to link Muslim faithful with prayer sites 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z In doing so, they are distancing themselves from one of Osama bin Laden’s central precepts: That fighters should focus on the “far enemy” in the West and not get bogged down in local insurgencies. Al Qaeda Works With Local Insurgents, in Tactical Shift 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The handing down of cultural precepts across the generations is a constant anxiety for jihadis. Why Jihadists Write Poetry 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z By Confucius’s teachings, he complained, people were to abide by the sage’s ethical precepts with no method of enforcing them beyond moral persuasion, preventing proper rule of law from developing in China. Reformers want to erase Confucius’s influence in Asia. That’s a mistake. 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The peaceful precepts for which Buddhism is widely known barely figure in his words. The darker side of Buddhism - BBC News 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Islamic State controls swathes of territory in both countries, where it has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims according to strict medieval precepts. Iraq Shi'ite militia take lead in campaign to reverse Islamic State gains 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z He's taught generations of students over more than six decades, instilling legal precepts along with some pithy tenets of his own, such as "Never drop your briefcase and run." Professor marks 100th birthday at Brooklyn Law School 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z He seems to have followed that precept in his own career, even when he did not have power. An Actor Takes His Portrayal of La Guardia Far Beyond Broadway 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Democracy’s prerequisites were, however, as lacking there as they were in Iraq, where we should have learned the perils of “nation-building,” and how discordant that project is with all conservative precepts. The two issues that would bedevil Lindsey Graham’s campaign 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Part of the problem is that Mr. Joseph and others may not understand one of the precepts by which insurance companies operate. Spurned by an Insurer After Filing Small Claims 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The stoic Steve, still reeling from revelations of widespread corruption in “The Winter Soldier,” is starting to question the precepts he’s followed blindly for so long. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans set the stage for a Civil War 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Set in a current-day Texas church basement, it’s got three teens and two adults who over the course of a few days struggle with society’s expectations and religious precepts. Review: Ambitious ‘Hand to God’ mixes violence and puppets 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z With the launch of the Iraqi dictator’s Faith Campaign in 1994, strict Islamic precepts were introduced. The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein’s. 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z This is an essential precept for a flourishing civil society. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Always Wrong 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z When Deng returned to China, he began putting Lee’s precepts to work, creating special Singapore-like economic development zones along China’s coast. Lee Kuan Yew -- Why This Extraordinary Leader Will Be Missed 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z I spent a lot of my senior year in college working for the pioneering Judge Leon Higginbotham, a presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, who was writing a book about the precepts of slavery. With One New App, The Entire World's Oral History Is About To Go Viral 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Dubbing climate change one of the “precepts of science,” the author opines that climate change skepticism is “dispiriting” for anyone considered a “rationalist.” Settled Science Scam 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z To lessen the impact, 34 forces plan an increase of the precept - the part of the council tax put towards policing - over the forthcoming year. Every police force facing major cuts 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Like the current administration, Bush officials were mindful of linking terrorist ideologies too closely to the religious precepts of Islam and also used the phrase "countering violent extremism" to describe the challenge. At summit on extremism, Obama defends his semantic choices regarding Islam 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Even when we intellectually accept these precepts of science, we subconsciously cling to our intuitions — what researchers call our naive beliefs. Why science is so hard to believe 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z One precept of Catholic catechism is that “a just wage is the legitimate fruit of work.” Teachers Find Little Grace in Archdiocese’s Latest Offering 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “We must study and master the precepts that the world is unified as matter and that matter determines consciousness,” Mr. Xi said. China Warns Against 'Western Values' in Imported Textbooks 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The analysis also shows that the precept will increase in three-quarters of areas in the next financial year to offset central government cuts. Every police force facing major cuts 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Panel is being asked to sign off a 5% drop in the police precept element of council tax at its meeting, which is also being held on Friday. Decision due on police tax rise 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The training taught them how to convey to their communities the genuine precepts of Islam, as the vast majority of the world’s Muslim community, the “Ummah”, practices it. Terrorism : Lessons From The Paris Tragedy 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z They look back to the precepts of Marx, Lenin and especially Mao to try to reverse the effects of China’s free-market policies and the spread of values anathema to party tradition. Maoists in China, Given New Life, Attack Dissent 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Very original – lol – the precept is only a few thousand years old. One Very Simple Way For Management To Boost Loyalty And Productivity 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Of the 34 forces planning to increase the precept, 30 will do so by just under 2%. Every police force facing major cuts 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium. The strangely enduring power of kitsch 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z A new report from the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, an association of investors that follow social precepts, estimates that $6.6 trillion in U.S. portfolios is invested with social goals. Beyond profits: Millennials embrace investing for social good 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Florida State is such a contradiction to the precepts of institutions of higher learning, it should be shuttered TODAY. Florida State and North Carolina: Two especially embarrassing examples of academic squalor A veteran revolutionary, Rouhani dismisses any suggestion that his pragmatism represents a betrayal of the Islamic Republic's founding precepts. Iran hardliners round on Rouhani but supreme leader backs more nuclear talks 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It is an elementary precept of Keynesian economics that tax increases lead to a fall in aggregate demand and, thus, to a fall in output. Why the World Should Hope Shinzo Abe Wins 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z With all of this in mind, last night offered a powerful reminder: each of these precepts – literally, each and every one of them – was wrong. Voters reward radicalism as GOP scores big wins 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z That coach had violated one of the most basic precepts of coaching: to give positive rather than negative feedback. Be a Creator, Not a Critic: The Leadership Feedback That Really Works 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z And North Carolina is such a contradiction to the precepts of institutions of higher learning, it should be shuttered, like, YESTERDAY. Florida State and North Carolina: Two especially embarrassing examples of academic squalor By quoting and honoring Confucius, Xi is also potentially holding himself to the sage’s unobtainable moral precepts. Xi Jinping's Love of Confucius May Backfire 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Most of the precepts are evident today though there is some speculation embedded as well. Healthcare's Age of Enlightenment: What's Next 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Based on what I have observed so far, I have seen seven major precepts gleaned from healthcare’s Enlightenment thinkers that I have outlined below. Health Care's Age of Enlightenment 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Sadly, it appears that many coaches reverse this precept repeatedly. Be a Creator, Not a Critic: The Leadership Feedback That Really Works 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z As I recount in my study of Roosevelt’s presidency, Byrnes was remarkably effective heading the war mobilization office, largely because he adhered to several key administrative precepts. Ebola 'Czar' Ron Klain Must Tread Carefully in New Obama Administration Post 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Taken together those precepts – nationalism, religion – offer a bulwark against global phenomena they all identify as the enemy. Putin, ISIS, Ebola: How Globalization Is Harming Us More Than Helping Us 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “If the definition is ‘violating Catholic precepts’ then you better be consistent about it and it has to remain within the confines of federal and state law.” Backlash at Catholic high school over firing of pregnant gay teacher 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Combat made more sense when you held to those kinds of precepts, and when they felt true. Pictures from My War 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z His own style, he said, combines precepts from Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Tai Chi. Jack Ma profile - Alibaba's powerful but humble billionaire 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Inspired by the human potential movement of the 1960s, he took frequent trips to the Esalen retreat center in Northern California and tried to apply some of the movement’s precepts at work. Andrew Kay, inventor who developed the Kaypro II compact computer, dies at 95 Whatever the cause of the disparity — gerrymandering and voter apathy are usual suspects — its architects have derailed the fundamental precept of American governance: that people in a given community determine how that community functions. Editorial: Racial disparities are behind Ferguson, Mo., unrest 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Understand fully these five general precepts, embrace them, eat with them….and you’ve made a large stride towards crossing the border that separates “our way” from “theirs.” The Very Exotic Mind-Set of the Japanese Gastronome 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z These precepts are captured in the Hippocratic oath and ethics guidelines from top medical organizations. I was told to approve a lethal injection, but it violates my basic medical ethics 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The letter urged the family to follow the precepts of Salafism, an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam. India Shaken by Case of Muslim Men Missing in Iraq 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z They talked about multilevel-marketing precepts such as "Be a product of the product." Sometimes, life is like a box of cacao products At TI4 this week, Valve is introducing a round of Newcomer’s Broadcasts that will ease people in to the basic precepts of Dota 2. Can video games be sports? 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The need to concentrate all the capability and authority required to run an air campaign in one plane is a core precept of Air Force doctrine. Air Force Modernization: Future Radar Planes Need On-Board Battle Management 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Charney hired him as a personal consultant, but Greene says the CEO didn’t follow all of his precepts. Dov Charney's Sleazy Struggle for Control of American Apparel 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan of California said in 1968 at the Republican National Convention, “to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” The conservative case against Hobby Lobby 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z “Thy precept in action — self poise, self-control; Nerve answering to will, steady onward to goal; Truth, brotherhood, temperance, thy standards unfurled, Come pledge loyal service — Dunbar for the world.” No permanent victories against racism A lot of anxiety in today’s world manifests in aggressive driving behavior, and, following Buddhist precepts of being in the moment, I prefer to enjoy my drive as much as possible. Over Solicitousness Masks An Uglier Side Of Character 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “Perhaps most disturbing is that this verdict comes as part of a succession of prosecutions and verdicts that are fundamentally incompatible with the basic precepts of human rights and democratic governance,” the statement said. Egypt sentences Al Jazeera journalists to prison, drawing international condemnation The White House said the rulings were the latest in a series of prosecutions “that are fundamentally incompatible with the basic precepts of human rights and democratic governance.” Al-Jazeera Journalists' Families Rail Against Egypt Sentencing 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Defenders of Sharia courts maintain that it allows Muslims to settle civil disputes, including divorce, child custody and inheritance, in accordance with their own cultural precepts. Are British Muslim Schools Teaching Hatred? Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans who believe the Bible is “ancient fables, legends, history and precepts written by man” has risen from 17 percent to 21 percent since 2012. Dogs and cats are fine as pets, but don’t substitute them for family, warned Pope Francis during Mas 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Among the usual precepts of swarm intelligence are diversity, independence and decentralization. Crisis Leadership Lessons From Fukushima To Boston: Move Fast (Together) And Fix Things 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z On the other end of the spectrum, about 20% of Americans say the Bible is nothing more than a “ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by man.” Most Americans Say the Bible Is God's Word 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z That’s right—this vocal critic of unsavory alternative investment practices is offering to assist, not oppose, the marketing efforts of select managers who embrace fiduciary precepts. Hedge and Private Equity Managers Willing to Take "Transparency Pledge" May Win Big 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Rogers, a leading foreign policy hawk, said he was happy for Bergdahl's family but insisted that the deal violated a precept of US foreign policy. Republicans claim Bowe Bergdahl release deal encourages terrorists 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z These three fairly simple precepts, if they were implemented, would do wonders in restoring meaningful competition in this industry. Competition, Not Mergers: The Road to Sound Internet and Cable Policy 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “This is to affirm that the nation’s constant, unyielding purpose must be to transmit the Constitution so that its precepts and guarantees retain their meaning and force.” Supreme Court strikes Florida law on intellectually disabled death row inmates; Virginia law is similar Ignorant Islamic militants wrongly use misunderstood religious precepts as an excuse to keep girls uneducated and used as sex slaves without rights or, often, decent living conditions. Evil must be confronted 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Going it alone, even if someone follows his precepts, is difficult, both in terms of finding deals and having time to do the necessary research. Wealth Matters: Angel Investors Need a High Risk Tolerance, Not Billions 2014-05-02T18:02:16Z The other is Glazer’s decision to film on the fly, with natural lighting and hidden cameras, in the fashion of von Trier’s Dogme precepts. 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