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How to use the word Tenets in a Sentence?

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One of the tenets of genomics and genomics testing is the importance of maintaining people’s autonomy to make Vaccines People own decisions, vaccines People’ve been quite cautious.

Richard Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

seeing is believing they say and if boundaries are limitless are we? or is existence twofold and doomed before the sights are set and if so does God really weep for humanity and must we continue to seek sustenance through escapism and do sporting events in all their microcosmic glory refute the tenets of nihilism or should we simply accept and wallow in our ignorance unbearable lightness of being creatures who feelwhat -- I don’t know

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

In the church, we have a saying, keep your hand on the plow, you're plowing hard ground, the roots of racism and inequity are deep … more reason to hold on tight and keep at it for the sake of truth, humanity and unity. The debate over critical race theory is in schools and government, but now it's starting to infiltrate and divide the Christian church. ( iStock) Critical race theory has begun to cause fissures in evangelical circles. In 2019 the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most conservative Christian denominations, adopted Resolution 9, which accepted some of the tenets of CRT as a.

Ryan Price

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A recent article targets two Roosevelt University faculty members for teaching social justice concepts, since our founding in 1945, social justice and inclusion have been core tenets of the Roosevelt University mission. Our faculty members often incorporate social justice values into their course work while respecting different perspectives and experiences.

Marketing Nicole Barron

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is fantastic because it's not just about countering disinformation, it is about countering stigma and prejudice, this is not rocket science. These are basic tenets of health and risk communications [ in order to ] establish trust.

Heidi Tworek

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One of the basic tenets of this class is to teach critical thinking, for instance, when we talk about Occupy Central, do you think this is right or wrong? We talk about how it impacts society.

Tin Fong Chak

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is against the basic tenets of Islam, and I would like to convey my heartfelt apologies for this misunderstanding.

Zakir Naik

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was never my intention to upset any individual or community, it is against the basic tenets of Islam, and I would like to convey my heartfelt apologies for this misunderstanding.

Zakir Naik

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

True to Washington's fears, Americans have allowed government officials, under assertions of expediency and party unity, to ignore the most basic tenets of our constitutional order : separation of powers, federalism and the rule of law, the result has been the consolidation of political power and the near disintegration of representative democracy.

Justin Amash

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We shouldnt live in fear of messing up, that doesnt align with the teachings of the church. One of the biggest tenets is that we are capable of repentance and forgiveness.

Riley Mabry

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

White supremacy still reigns, and the person who does blackface may not subscribe to all the tenets of it, but they are operating under that general idea.

Wornie Reed

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You can make anything absolutely secure, you can stop any tourists from coming into the US, you can stop any travel, but what's the cost of that ? that can also destroy your economy in the process or violate the basic laws and tenets on which your nation has been built.

Bob Carey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is a wrong precedent. It was a wrong judgment. It was not legal and it was based wrongly on the tenets of the constitution.

Colin Gonsalves

Found on CNN
5 years ago

None of them implemented socialism in way that actually adhered to tenets because, in general, leaders become corrupt by power, venezuela is not socialist ; it’s a dictatorship.

Jason Marczak

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

( Fox News) What keeps the government from overreaching ? what keeps them from going the next step ? And it really is only another step or two, to a national ID where they know everything about you. One of the very first tenets is no national ID, Grassi said of the work NIST is doing. And the mobile driver's license would be no different. Each individual state will still be in control of driver's license information, as they are now, he said. Diane Johanssen manages the driver's license office in Lakewood, Colorado, which took part in field testing Gemalto's product. Everyone wants it right now and I think that the digital license is the wave of the future, personally and professionally, Diane Johanssen said. Diane Johanssen said one of the biggest advantages to going digital would be the ability to update license information remotely. It would basically keep them out of the office, and for all those people with special needs, that are in nursing homes that have an issue to just get to a driver's license office.

Dan Recht

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenets of their faith.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Peace will require strict adherence by both sides to the tenets of international humanitarian law. This includes Israeli ending disproportionate responses to being attacked, even though any attack on Israel is unacceptable.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's hurtful to think that those who are seeking the highest offices in the land are ignoring the basic tenets of the Constitution and suddenly concluding that Muslims have a predisposition for violence, it feels like we're a punching bag.

Hamid Khan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith, and it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that.

President George W. Bush

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The unlimited amounts of money flooding our political system from a narrow and immensely wealthy slice of American society is the most pernicious internal peril threatening the fundamental tenets of economic, political, moral and social justice and, not least, the fairness and vibrancy of our representative democracy.

Paul Kirk

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As a general principle, people can do whatever they want on their private property -- that's one of the basic tenets of freedom in America, i am not opposed to anybody doing whatever they want to do on their private property.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What we should be talking about is Islam and the tenets of Islam and where do they come from? They come from Sharia. They come the Koran. They come from, you know, the life works and examples of Mohammed. They come from the fatwas, which is the writings of scholars, you know, and if you go back and you look at -- what I would like for somebody to show me is an improved Islamic text that opposes Sharia. Let me see -- if you can show me that, I will begin to alter my thinking on this.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our Constitution above their religion... I would then be quite willing to support them.

Sean Hannity

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But at the same time, if I’m president of the United States, no church, synagogue or mosque is going to lose its tax-exempt status because the tenets of their faith do not allow them to perform a same-sex marriage. there is nothing under our law that compels a rabbi, minister or pastor of any kind to perform a marriage that that person doesn’t want to perform.

Robert Schapiro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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