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Example sentences for "tenets"

Lexicographically close words:
teneris; tenero; tenes; tenesmus; tenet; tenetur; tenfold; tenga; tengan; tenge
  1. The continued influence of the teaching of that early work is obvious throughout this section, and largely accounts for the form in which certain of its tenets are propounded.

  2. He substitutes the empirical for the transcendental object,[891] and in so doing propounds one of the central and most revolutionary tenets of the Critical philosophy.

  3. They summarise the total argument of the Aesthetic in regard to space as well as time, distinguish its tenets from those of Newton and of Leibniz, and draw a general conclusion.

  4. The clash of conflicting tenets which Kant is striving to reconcile could hardly find more fitting expression than in this assertion of an analytic synthesis.

  5. Critical doctrine is made to conform to the exigencies of an artificial framework, with which its own tenets are only in very imperfect harmony.

  6. But despite all inconsistencies, and notwithstanding his perverse preference for outlandish modes of expression, he succeeds in enforcing with sufficient clearness the really fundamental tenets of the Coherence view.

  7. Several of these tenets he certainly derived directly from the Critique; but they are placed by him in so entirely different a setting that their essential meaning is greatly altered.

  8. This digression has been introduced solely for the purpose of defining more precisely the central tenets of Kant's Critical teaching.

  9. The sacredness of religious tenets or monumental buildings is at once explained by this.

  10. The historical Zoroaster, the compiler of the religious tenets of the Zend people in the Zend-Avesta, lived about 589 B.

  11. Buddhistic tenets joined hands with Brahmanic conceits; Egyptian symbols were intermingled with Hebrew practical enactments, without any ideal aspirations.

  12. The tenets of Calvinism naturally warred against such a practice, while "the main influence .

  13. However, a few dispositions of the civil law which differ from the tenets of the natural law should be kept in mind by the priest or confessor in dealing with the matters.

  14. Likewise, many of its tenets are drawn from encyclical letters.

  15. They obeyed the command, though not without some murmurs from those who had not been thoroughly schooled in the stern tenets of the Chasidim.

  16. Men braver it would not have been possible to find; their courage amounted to something like recklessness; but they were enthusiasts, and held their tenets with a tenacity that sometimes made discipline almost impossible.

  17. But these questions of abstruse theory need not be pursued, since they count, after all, but relatively little among the working tenets of the movement.

  18. He qualified and improved it, very much as Mill qualified and improved the tenets of the hedonistic psychology.

  19. His polemics run against the specific tenets of the liberal school, but they run wholly on the ground afforded by the premises of that school.

  20. These two not altogether compatible lines of doctrine found their way together into the tenets of scientific[2] socialism, and gives its characteristic Marxian features to the body of socialist economics.

  21. It may hold as against certain tenets of the so-called "scientific socialism," but it is not altogether to the point as regards the Marxian system of theory.

  22. Apart from the metaphysical tenets indicated above as influencing them, there are, of course, reasons of economic history for the procedure of the early economists in so relegating the pecuniary activities to the background of economic theory.

  23. As the boor in society makes himself conspicuous, so it was one of the tenets of Pan-Germanism to let no international agreement take place without German interference.

  24. They declared their intention of repealing the three-years law and proclaimed the tenets of their faith at the Congress of Pau.

  25. Chinese missionaries make their way into England and preach ancestor‐worship and the tenets of Buddha in the East End of London.

  26. As a literary composition and as a partial exposition of the peculiar tenets of a heretical Jewish sect, the Sermon on the Mount is interesting; but as a moral code it is of little value.

  27. Hence it became usual for every thinking Roman to attach himself to the tenets of some sect, which ever best suited his own comprehension or prejudices.

  28. The Christian tenets maintain that the soul and body must appear for judgment, and why not before judgment,—if so willed by the Almighty?

  29. They had been in correspondence on the subject of the connection of the tenets of Buddhism and scientific expositions of evolutionary science in England.

  30. But now the clergyman who should attempt to preach these old Calvinistic tenets would be denounced as "an old fogy.

  31. Enlightened nations are as capable of making their own religion as their own laws; that is, of making its tenets conform to the natural outgrowth of their religious feelings as they become more expanded and enlightened.

  32. If there has been no essential change in her religion for eight thousand or nine thousand years, it is prima facie evidence that she did not borrow any of her religious tenets of the Jews.

  33. Archbishop Whitgift had striven to force on the Church of England a set of articles which embodied the tenets of an extreme Calvinism; and one of the wisest acts of Elizabeth had been to disallow them.

  34. Gospel purity will equally shun superstition and cruelty, as the mildness of Christ's tenets teaches only to comfort in this world, and to procure salvation in the next.

  35. Her mind, physically morose was under the dominion of men who possessed not the milk of human kindness, and whose principles were sanctioned and enjoined by the idolatrous tenets of the Romish pontiff.

  36. Here was a prophet, jerked by circumstances into being, trumpeting the tenets of an obscure sect with something very near to inspiration.

  37. But if Captain Kettle was keen on the conversion of the heathen to the tenets of the Tyneside chapel, he was by no means forgetful of his commercial duties.

  38. Later on, Standish was charged before Convocation with holding tenets derogatory to the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastics.

  39. In order to make the matter clear, he enumerates a great number of tenets of Lutheranism which they hold to as matters of revealed certainty.

  40. Hence no definition of philosophy can be appreciated without some knowledge of the special tenets of the various schools.

  41. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

  42. The thinker has a thousand tenets of faith where the believer gets along with few; but the former brings coherence into his tenets, and takes the coherence in turn for the scale to estimate their worth by.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.