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Using a site such as Brainy Quote, collect 10 precepts you would consider adding to Mr. Browne's collection, or create some of your own precepts to submit via the Choose Kind Tumblr page.
Here are a set of precepts every investor should remember.
The United States government needs to build on these precepts.
Besides, the precepts Evans offers are both edifying and entertaining.
True to Aristotelian precepts, the opera's climax occurs in Act III.
After the Occupy demonstrations, Obama turned against the precepts of market liberalism.
There she learned Turkish, the precepts of Islam and the amorous arts.
Those are some of the downtown precepts that haven't taken as easily.
"They in no way contravene Islamic precepts, but embody an enlightened reading of these precepts, which put them in step with the evolution of society," said Abdelmajid Charfi, a university professor who is one of the report&aposs authors.
Even as a subliminal suggestion, filmmakers are playing with these possible philosophical precepts.
They're Tex-Mex-ish, by way of the precepts of the American casserole.
By continuing to apply the same precepts, Trump simply continues to be unpopular.
Sceptics should allow that welcoming migrants does not violate the precepts of patriotism.
You can follow the precepts of theory or just go on your nerve.
One of our precepts is that we drink wine, we don't taste it.
The way he has defended the founding precepts of the United States while also arguing that those precepts have to be broadened to achieve a new inclusiveness has been especially striking, as have his remarks delivered at moments of national tragedy.
The precepts are so broad as to be meaningless—and wide open to abuse.
By setting a goal — a quota — The Times has abandoned all precepts of fairness.
Q: Since these money precepts are so simple, where do most people go off-track?
American law and jurisprudence also make explicit provision for killing animals according to religious precepts.
We've also exposed agencies and high-ranking officials who violated fundamental precepts of public service.
By the precepts of clan rivalry, Giuseppina Pesce and Maria Concetta Cacciola were unlikely friends.
"I don't think it's a series of precepts, like a Bible or something," says Kang.
Following their precepts will make you socially adept, which in turn will make you successful.
First, I would like people to know about our focus on meditation and guiding precepts.
So why do many conservatives hate a program so in line with key conservative precepts?
It's strange that one of the basic precepts of intercourse—penetration—is never told to you.
All of those precepts sent Google's workforce into full tilt after the travel ban was announced.
Those two precepts have consistently seemed to animate Mr. Trump's campaign, which has sustained various plotlines.
According to Canova, the court regularly contradicted itself, and numerous rulings went against basic legal precepts.
Partners and even foes know that US troops will generally act in accordance with those precepts.
Several of his early decisions, initially seen as controversial, broadened basic precepts of international criminal law.
He of course included traditional commencement admonitions to follow precepts and principles and to provide future leadership.
We do not punish people according to the Christian precepts of our faith -- so there's a difference.
We do not punish people according to the Christian precepts of our faith — so there's a difference.
Another of the Brotherhood's institutions, the Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research, is rewriting orthodox precepts.
The good news is that you do live up to many of the precepts of modern business theory.
But not all the Americans who call themselves Buddhist really know about these precepts, let alone practise them.
We pass on a few precepts about the universe but leave the brain to figure out the rest.
Mr. Neman said he was inspired by Patagonia, the clothing company that promotes recycling and other environmental precepts.
In the 13th century, the Japanese Buddhist philosopher Dogen wrote a famous series of precepts called the Genjo-Koan.
Until he left for New York, Mosset seemed comfortable with Clement Greenberg's formalist precepts of flatness and self-referentiality.
The argument is it's an anti-slavery document and we're not living up to the precepts of that document.
Confucius, whom Mao reviled, is much more Mr Xi's fellow, with his precepts of order, hierarchy, loyalty and uprightness.
Buddhists follow the Five Precepts: an order to abstain from harming living things, stealing, sexual misconduct, intoxication, and lying.
Though I cherished them both, I found myself wondering — as students inevitably do — whether I agreed with their precepts.
Why did they think it would, when all of the truly Christian precepts are represented by Democrats, not Republicans?
We Americans are, so to speak, children of the Enlightenment, steeped in the precepts of our highly globalized era.
He repeatedly, publicly and unapologetically violates nearly all the moral precepts fundamental to every religious community in our country.
His presence on the podium was also a valedictory for an exceptional man and president who will be remembered for eloquently defending the founding precepts of the country — even as he used those precepts to expand the mandate of inclusiveness and broaden the definition of what it means to be an American.
Too many people today claim they plan according to Jacobs' precepts while embracing Robert Moses' pursuit of big, bold visions.
His mother-in-law and one of his best friends were devout Zen Buddhists who hooked him onto its precepts.
The judgment resets South African democracy to the precepts established by the 1996 Constitution during the presidency of Nelson Mandela.
Those foundational precepts look more and more fanciful as acute conditions of economic inequality and democratic deficit continue to deepen.
King Mohammed VI also condemned what he called an "odious criminal act, contrary to all human values and religious precepts".
Black Mirror watchers presumably recognize the precepts being used—certainly the episode expects us to be familiar with social media.
How the current suryong interprets juche, and the ways he explains its precepts to his people, is actually quite significant.
Cage and Cunningham were incorporating Zen precepts into their work; mindfulness itself (noticing the sandwich, the flowers) is the lesson.
Wright admitted him, but he stayed only long enough to absorb some of Wright's precepts, not to become an acolyte.
But Mr. Trump's executive order violates the fundamental precepts of the great religions: to provide sanctuary and care for strangers.
The precepts of Social Christianity were simple: Individuals could be sinful, but so could systems — especially capitalism and white supremacy.
A growing number of the inhabitants of this forested, sparsely populated land subscribe to the nature-loving precepts of neo-paganism.
Women who challenged such precepts would often be met with shouting and jostling, and have been blocked by custodians and police.
When you read to your child, when you introduce discipline and certain kind of moral precepts, you&aposre designing a child.
If we can just turn back the clock following the letter of its 1787 precepts, change can be held at bay.
Reeves catalogs students who have followed D.A.R.E.'s precepts, for example, unaware that to do so would tear their families apart.
What they couldn't believe, given fundamentalist precepts about the nature of sex and women, was that she was an innocent party.
The language itself is levelled here—Xie's gift for striking imagery withheld—in order to give her precepts heft and authority.
His Rule of St. Benedict, a series of teachings for monks, formed the basic precepts for thousands of monasteries in Europe.
Britain's empirical tradition and messy state, they argue, sit awkwardly in a club founded on Napoleonic legal precepts and Kantian utopianism.
Raúl discarded some of the precepts that Fidel had considered sacred, chipping away at the Communist scaffold his brother had built.
The culture celebrated nakedness as an icon of purity and the attainment of bliss as per the precepts of the Kama Sutra.
"Prosecutors and judges are free to criminalize any act in accordance with their own interpretation of precepts of Islamic law," notes HRW.
Although it seems to have been conceived with Minimalist precepts in mind, the effect is a paradoxical sensation of austere, shimmering lushness.
One of the (many) things I admired and enjoyed about [ Charles   Krauthammer ] was that he  challenged my precepts and changed my opinions.
Democrats were weak, indecisive, and vaguely foreign — losers, as Trump would say — not insufficiently committed to the precepts of Burke or Hayek.
In response, the services are asked to evaluate their most fundamental missions and organizational precepts to determine what activities align or not.
Every time someone violates the Five Precepts, Suttarchai explains, he loses 20% of his soul, becoming less human and more animal-like.
That was fed to me with all of its biblical precepts and theological justifications, and I simply accepted it and parroted it back.
Its precepts have been suggested by American visionaries such as Daniel Graham, Pete Worden, and more recently by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Ryan Holiday Stoic philosophy is different from most philosophies in that it's not a set of precepts or systemic explanations of the universe.
"The state must protect citizens from behavior that is contrary to the supreme precepts of God," said politician Nasir Djamil, according to CNN.
But there are angels within the Republican Party, and those with a clear-eyed understanding of the moral precepts of conservatism resist this trend.
John Jota Leaños answers Argote's clarion call, having created an animation that reexamines many of the precepts of Manifest Destiny and the American West.
We urge that Congress adopt these key precepts to give our space forces, from the beginning, all the tools they will need to succeed.
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.
We've spent literally thousands of years devising rules of human conduct — the basic precepts that allow us (ideally) to get along and prosper together.
"Prosecutors and judges are free to criminalize any act in accordance with their own interpretation of precepts of Islamic law," notes Human Rights Watch.
The question is: How can we respect the precepts of private enterprise for its inarguable benefits without subordinating our pressing social and human needs?
Generations of legal scholars and jurists have wrestled with how to apply its antiquated precepts to the mores and technologies of each subsequent era.
Jesus preached to the "family of man," anticipating the humane and cosmopolitan precepts of the enlightened age that Jefferson was convinced would inevitably arrive.
But he was confident that enlightened republicans and conscientious Christians could, and must, agree on the fundamental ethical precepts he gleaned from the Bible.
Most worrying of all for the SPD is that the NRW campaign tested several of the precepts on which Mr Schulz's national strategy is based.
Now, some of the revolutionary precepts which de Tocqueville celebrated are on the block of counter revolution, and with them parts of the administrative class.
Cruz offers a more thoughtful response, but it flies in the face of his other precepts that include a smaller government and less government spending.
"They are all unjust acts by a traditional society, far more restrictive than what is lawfully allowed by the precepts of religion," Prince Alwaleed said.
We are a long way from that better world, in part because so many seemingly well-intentioned people buy into the precepts of rape culture.
While "progressivism" is a broad conviction about social development that can be linked with almost any political ideology, "socialism" has very specific precepts and goals.
The election emphasizes a split between those favoring overhauls and those who want to stick to the ideological precepts of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
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.
"One of the precepts of 'Mad Money' is to know how to invest in an individual stock if you are going to do so," Cramer said.
Malcolm's adult daughter Andrea (Lucy Boynton) also seems like a troublemaker who doesn't fully hold with the island's precepts and has an immediate interest in Thomas.
Treasury's deeper reason for championing U.S. multinationals here relates not to the empathy they elicit, but to how state aid precepts intersect with corporate tax law.
"European law courts are becoming a trans-national laboratory combining religious precepts, legal mechanisms, private interests and public policies in ever-more innovative ways," he says.
Still, the share of the overall population that questions capitalism's core precepts is around the highest in at least 80 years of polling on the topic.
"The precepts of my faith require that I take responsibility for this error, and that was my ultimate deciding factor in doing this plea," Reed said.
A Palestinian state created by ethnically cleansing Jews from their ancestral lands would contravene the precepts of the 2007 U.N. Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
I had to become thoughtful about disentangling those things, to treat the precepts of my faith as primary and let our politics flow out of that.
But as Randall Fuller shows in "The Book That Changed America," this was not the only way Darwinian precepts were assimilated into American life and thought.
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 swing vote on the Supreme Court is moving from Kennedy — who dramatically voted to uphold the main precepts of Roe in 1992's Planned Parenthood v.
He was defrocked amid accusations that he had sexual relations with several women — a major violation of the precepts guiding monks&apos behavior — and had impregnated one.
And part of that just goes to precepts of the rule of law, that no one is above the law, even the president of the United States.
If it turns into the wild, wild West of just do whatever you want, then that kind of runs against concepts and precepts of Outer Space Treaty.
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.
This is surely not the result contemplated by those who drafted and ratified the Fifth Amendment, and surely not the result dictated by precepts of constitutional democracy.
In countries with written Constitutions, like Germany and the United States, "you can define extremism as those opposed to the precepts of the Constitution," Mr. Neumann said.
If that view had prevailed in the past, Brown versus Board of Education would have upheld the racist precepts of "separate but equal" in Plessy versus Ferguson.
There is no question that a request for F-35s is within the letter of this law, making any sale is consistent with the precepts of U.S. policy.
"ISDS upholds the same fundamental due process and private property guarantees protected by our Constitution, and it obligates other countries to uphold these precepts as well," they wrote.
Consequently, for far too long, we allowed institutional policies regarding race to be shaped more directly by that ethos than by the principles and precepts of the Scriptures.
Reading about how an entire culture's precepts and traditions can be overthrown without anyone being able to stop it may not be heartening at this particular historical moment.
" But as Larsen convincingly responds, "If we are being originalists, why is it not the natural law precepts that the Framers and ratifiers themselves embraced that are binding?
The Netherlands has set up a system built on market precepts that outpaces most others in the world when it comes to the quality of its health care.
The monks reassured him by saying that all the Tamils killed amounted to just one-and-a-half human beings, because only those keeping Buddhist precepts were human.
It seems significant that a fringe movement has such wealthy and prominent backers, and worth exploring the philosophical and political precepts that led Musk and Thiel to transhumanism.
The issue is the religiously sanctioned killing of animals, and it also includes the supply to schools of meat that has been slaughtered according to ancient precepts of faith.
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.
Beyond that she travels light: cleaving to few ideological precepts and avoiding risk, apart from situations where she feels she has little choice and believes she can steer events.
At bottom, the Obama administration's ultimate fatal conceit is that it never grasped one of the simplest yet fundamental precepts of economics: Firms are not passive recipients of regulation.
Watchmen so thoroughly deconstructs the foundational precepts of superheroes that most subsequent writers have made do either by poorly imitating its technique or outright ignoring elements of its critique.
And you can, too, at least if you believe in the precepts of no-recipe recipes and especially if you've followed the crowds and gotten yourself an electric multicooker.
His entire staff meditates at least two hours a day, and they need to adhere to strict moral precepts, refraining from, among other things, drinking alcohol, smoking or lying.
Political and military confrontations in the Middle East have never observed Marquess of Queensberry rules, but even the few existing precepts are now likely to be out the window.
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.
" Among the principles outlined in the guidance is that certain religious organizations are entitled to hire only people whose beliefs and conduct are "consistent with their employers' religious precepts.
That said, a lot of people on my side are arguing from flawed principles based on political and emotional rather than rational precepts, and they should stop doing that posthaste.
More Americans may yearn for the 1950s than for the 1770s, but the belief that the country's precepts have been forsaken, and its greatness lost, is widespread, powerful and poisonous.
One of Mrs Cox's political precepts was that ignoring problems makes them worse—something to ponder as Britain thinks about its lawmakers, belatedly and sombrely, in a perhaps kinder light.
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.
These precepts guide Elisa Rizzi, who studied the art of pizza in her native Italy before landing in New York in 2015 with 2116-year-old starter in her suitcase.
He chastises his colleagues for blaming terrorism on economics or geopolitics when it is obvious that "many of the precepts of Islamic doctrine" are "floridly anti-humanistic," like religion in general.
The U.S. Constitution stands as a stable and steadfast charter of our liberties, but activist federal judges too often contort its clear precepts based on their own ideological and philosophical whims.
The maturity of the Turkish people resulted in Erdogan's getting what golfers call a mulligan, or a do-over, to demonstrate that he is committed to the universal precepts of democracy.
She was travelling home after a long visit with a relative, to rejoin her husband, Winthrop Brandon, a Presbyterian preacher who had made his name with a book of virtuous precepts.
In previous messages, ISIS has told its supporters they will be rewarded tenfold in paradise for carrying out attacks during Ramadan, an example of them inventing theological precepts to suit their purposes.
From talk radio to Fox News to Breitbart, alternative public spheres coalesced as echo chambers, where climate science could be regularly parried and parodied and conservative precepts about government overreach perpetually reinforced.
President Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Republicans (and even some Democrats) have called for a need to carefully balance environmental regulation with the precepts of economic growth ("alternative fact number two").
"While liberal values and principles remain fundamental, the implications of these precepts necessarily evolve from generation to generation, reflecting social changes and new norms," PEN America's Principles on Campus Free Speech says.
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.
Reacting to renewed U.S. coercion, President Xi publicly reasserted its commitment to "Made in China 2025," citing "self-reliance and innovation" as Beijing's chosen economic precepts for guiding development and trade strategies.
According to Doxa, an independent opinion research company, almost three-quarters of Italians are Catholic Christian, with 59 percent of them convinced that religious dogmas and precepts have an influence on everyday life.
KIRYAS JOEL, N.Y. — In a place where young boys spend their days hunched over volumes of Torah and Talmud, delving into timeless stories and precepts in an ancient singsong, the scene was incongruous.
It's a 1934 measure called the National Firearms Act, and it stands as a stark rebuke to the most sacred precepts of the gun lobby and provides a model we should build on.
Donald Trump has forced us to wrestle with a problem that the Founders thought they had addressed: a president who flouts constitutional precepts and commits acts that exceed his stipulated and understood powers.
While there are many reasons for this problem—most notably, insufficient money for food and housing—charter-school leaders, including those at Success, are also considering the impact of their own teaching precepts.
His friendly presence will fill the stage at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, where this musical adaptation will focus on Clifford's Big Ideas: precepts like be truthful, be kind and help others.
Mr. Orban is hollowing out his country's fragile institutions and challenging core precepts of the European Union — with the acquiescence of the European Union itself, and the passive enabling of the United States.
They found in the history of Western civilization the precepts for a community of nations buttressed not only by shared values, interests and institutions, but also by the world's most powerful military alliance.
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.
The Coke campaign was a coup; it overturned the advertising model of an army of hacks and substituted a small, Ovitz-led S.W.A.T. team ready to throw conventional ad precepts out the window.
An edict issued this month by the head of the Sports for All Federation, a government institution promoting sports and a healthy lifestyle, effectively banned Zumba classes for being contrary to Islamic precepts.
From that simple idea flows the wonderful and distinctively American idea of the melting pot, where everyone is welcome as long as they sign up to America's values and precepts: that they become Americans.
It's just as immediately obvious that he's in over his head — he's trying to infiltrate an insular group where everyone accepts the same strange religious precepts, and he has no idea what they are.
For example, most Buddhists would agree that their faith's core axioms include five moral precepts: don't harm living things, don't take what is not given, don't engage in sexual misconduct, lie or consume intoxicants.
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.
He has questioned long-held precepts of foreign policy, including the One China policy, a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the usefulness of NATO, and the importance of multilateral trade agreements.
Claire Perry, a ocean campaign leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency said that Japan's decision to continue whaling under scientific precepts wasn't the only reason why they garnered more international scrutiny than Iceland or Norway.
The election campaign emphasized a split between those favoring an overhaul of the quasi-socialist economy and expanded personal freedoms and those wanting to adhere to the ideological precepts of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Neil Gorsuch has a record of writing and opining against reproductive rights, including contraceptive coverage in employer-based health insurance, funding for Planned Parenthood, and the constitutional precepts that demand protection of the abortion right.
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.
Rich, you may think, coming from the boss of a firm accused of falling foul of all four precepts; on April 3rd it emerged that some user data had been stored on unsecured third-party servers.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has created a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism, evoking memories of a Soviet practice that once saw soldiers taught the precepts of Marxism and Leninism by political commissars.
REUTERS TV Vladimir Putin has created a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism, evoking memories of a Soviet practice that once saw soldiers taught the precepts of Marxism and Leninism by political commissars.
After he transferred to Southern University in Louisiana, he said, he joined student civil rights protests, trying to practice Dr. King's precepts of nonviolence, but a march on the state Capitol was a personal turning point.
This aspect of Peterson's work is far more sympathetic than his ill-informed and frankly nefarious politics — especially since some of his cardinal rules, like "tell the truth," are perfectly good moral precepts to live by.
The precepts of the Centre are, at this point, fairly well-known: It promises to bring the wisdom of the Kabbalah, a system of Jewish mystical thought, and the Zohar, its central text, to the masses.
On Monday, if you don't make chili or stew today, or if you're following the precepts of the meatless Monday brigade, you might try Martha Rose Shulman's recipe for spaghetti with cauliflower, almonds, tomatoes and chickpeas.
" The keyboard tones echo "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," while the extended vocal-harmony coda (singing Crowley's precepts "Do what thou wilt" and "Love is the law") hints at "I Want You (She's So Heavy).
And to a larger extent, there is the disquieting reality that even as college sports continue to grow more lucrative, athletes still only see a tiny sliver of the profits due to the outdated precepts of amateurism.
Under international law — and the precepts of basic human decency — the nearly one million Rohingya people driven out of their homeland in Myanmar and crammed into refugee camps in Bangladesh ought to be able to return home.
"One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail," Obama said.
Much of their book attempts to match the challenges of current life—a shrinking manufacturing sphere, a global labor surplus, a mire of race-inflected socioeconomic traps—with Marx's quite specific precepts about the nineteenth-century European economy.
And as messy as the episode is—at certain junctures, it feels like something that was cooked up during a pissed-off boomer book group on the Upper West Side—it manages to define the Kings' central precepts.
If the administration follows the precepts of Secretary DeVos' address—and can find a sufficient number of allies in Congress who put children ahead of the system—the Department of Education may finally have found its proper role.
Both parties have largely repudiated Greenspan's precepts, with Republicans lurching toward protectionism and a nativist hostility for globalization and Democrats lurching toward something he would surely find equally repugnant: income redistribution, ever-expanding government entitlements and identity politics.
And the form, the precepts, are yours to dispose of as you will, As the ocean makes grasses, and in doing so refurbishes a lighthouse On a distant hill, or else lets the whole picture slip into foam.
As policy is personnel, therefore, an administrative agency with little regard for the binding precepts of both the Communications Act and the Administrative Procedure Act will also have little if any regard for any new process reform legislation.
"Liability and control, solidarity and responsibility" will remain key precepts for the euro zone, Braun told lawmakers in the letter, a copy of which was viewed by Reuters, ahead of a meeting of the coalition parties on Tuesday.
After all, colleges may have the right to set the norms that they wish, but there's no cause for American taxpayers to subsidize research at institutions which are unable to commit to the fundamental precepts of scientific inquiry.
It involves not just believing certain precepts, or assenting to certain values, but possessing certain skills and cultivating certain character traits — skills and character traits that become invisible when morality is reduced to thought experiments about individual decisions.
"[T]hose who adhere to religious doctrines", he wrote, "may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned" and they are protected in this mission by the First Amendment.
In creating one, our aim was to adopt and extend these basic precepts, introducing our viewpoint and taking it somewhere new that felt relevant to our lives, without wholly severing a connection to their traditional role within Guatemalan culture.
But if Mr Johnson appears to be vindicated, then it will be harder than ever for voters to follow both his party and the precepts of the Koran, despite the politician's claim to be an interpreter of that book.
The guidelines in Britain get at some important precepts here, usually referred to as the 3Rs: replacement (substitute nonanimal alternatives where possible), reduction (minimize the number of animals used) and refinement (adjust procedures in order to minimize animal suffering).
Ryan, in his desperation to pass anything and label it a "health insurance bill," adopted the precepts of those in his party who want to make the lives of those who are not well-off more vulnerable and insecure.
"Now and forever I will fight to support the constitutional precepts of separation of church and state and equal protection under the law for all Michigan residents and all Americans," Nessel wrote on Twitter in response to the ruling.
He warned in his anniversary speech that any attempt to "challenge the power" of the central government in Beijing, or even the authority of the Basic Law, China's governing precepts for Hong Kong, "crosses a red line, and is absolutely impermissible".
We know that some of you chafe at his libertarianism, but also know how much you appreciate his faithful reading of law, devotion to Madisonian precepts and willingness to tell the truth even when it goes against his own stated interests.
In a hyper politicized country, it may not matter to a protester, convinced of the absolute evil of Yiannopoulos, that violating the very precepts that allow their campuses to function -- and to be the envy of the world -- is wrong.
Mexican consulates "have intensified their work of protecting fellow nationals, foreseeing more severe immigration measures to be implemented by the authorities of this country, and possible violations to constitutional precepts during such operations and problems with due process," the statement said.
And when we're stuck with legacy code and legacy systems, which of course is still most of the time, let's do our best to learn how make it incrementally better, by focusing on the basic precepts and foundations of programming.
But Tibetan Buddhism needs to march with the times, and at the same time as passing down and teaching its traditional precepts it needs to put more focus on teachings that "benefit social harmony and move with the times", Wu said.
My recipes are authentic insofar as they adhere to the precepts of the Spanish verb that gives the dish its name — enchilar: to season with chiles — but I doubt Diana Kennedy or any other dons of Mexican cuisine would approve.
In 1893, just three years before he proposed the idea of the Jewish state in "Der Judenstaat," his groundbreaking pamphlet laying out the precepts of Zionism, he argued that the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian empire should instead become Christians.
Though the miniature hyperrealism of the sleeping "We" (2010) and the hanging "Sans titre" (2000) comes with an inherent pressure to conform to its easy precepts, the works do, in this context, evoke less-empowered people like refugees, exploited laborers, and immigrants.
While not necessarily illegal—some of the tactics are, in fact, regular parts of complex businesses—the pattern of activity points to an attempt to evade one of the basic precepts of modern banking and anti-money-laundering efforts: Know your customer.
The unpleasant sight and overpowering stench of flesh decaying in tropical heat can impart lessons about important Buddhist precepts, like nonattachment to one's body and the impermanence of everything, said Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
By the same token, although I strongly recommend learning about the Bible — after all, familiarity with it is a prerequisite for basic cultural literacy, at least in the Western world — I also wouldn't recommend deriving all of one's ethical precepts from it.
But rather than overhauling the military's internal institutions — from doctrinal precepts to personnel management and education and training — to meet the new realities, successive administrations focused on depoliticizing the military and compensating its loss of power with arms modernization and budgetary increases.
As Mr. Modi has struggled to deliver on his promise to create enough jobs for India's young people, he has increasingly turned to his party's roots in Hindu nationalism, pledging to give the religion's precepts a greater role in government and civic life.
Yet Ms. Merkel's principled action, so different from the nativist opposition to immigrants trumpeted by European populists and Mr. Trump, also exemplifies the moral precepts, forged growing up in a Lutheran home in East Germany, that are behind Ms. Merkel's instincts and style.
"Because of the absence of a commitment to decency or truth on his part that has been amply demonstrated in his three years in public office, because of his refusal to recognize even the most basic precepts of constitutional principle," he added.
A compellingly weird recruitment video, "Ten Bullets," preaches the Sachs Studio dogma: The central precepts for success as a Sachs assistant are an ability to focus on the task and a willingness to abjure personal inspirations in service to the vision of the leader.
Beneath their punk-informed momentum and textured-chrome surface are self-realization precepts about believing in who you are and accepting your own insecurities that mean more to well-fixed postcollegiates still figuring shit out than to those all too preoccupied with earning a living.
Think of As Four's wild runway romps in the still raw Far East Village, replete with pit bulls tinted pink and clothes designed according to abstruse philosophical precepts involving the circle (and that produced a handbag immediately ripped off by a designer of international renown).
Mr. Annan had so fully internalized the United Nations' precepts, both its respect for the sovereignty of each member and the obligation to remain neutral between contending parties, that he could not break free of them when a supreme crisis demanded he do so.
The author was a strong proponent of Maria Montessori's methods and translated her works into English, and much of Betsy's school experience leads back to Montessori's precepts of progressive education and the importance of giving children a chance to engage with the real world.
Because the logic of reputation-based credibility always points toward taking military action, and because unlike most foreign policy precepts it is very intuitive and easy to understand, foreign policy elites who want some sort of military action have a strong incentive to make that argument.
Kubitschek does not hesitate to provoke in the service of his New Right cause, but he also has a talent for couching his illiberal ideology in innocuous-seeming, even liberal-sounding precepts that keep him within the bounds of acceptable discourse even as he expands them.
But what she did next violated the most important precepts she was taught at Fort Huachuca, along with the Oath of Enlistment she swore in 2007: She uploaded the contents of the discs onto the personal laptop she planned to take home to the United States.
Through a series of close readings peppered with gossip and autobiographical anecdotes, Viertel lays out the formal precepts: an early "I Want" song, in which the hero reveals his most ardent desires; a first-act climax with "a crisis that seems completely beyond redemption"; and so on.
The parents argued that even though the Quran does not require girls' bodies to be covered until puberty, "their belief commanded them to prepare their daughters for the precepts that would be applied to them from puberty" onward, according to the court's summary of the case.
Among the many things it left me thinking about was Omi Osun Joni L Jones's discussion, in the co-authored book Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic, of the precepts behind the Austin Project, a performance and social change project she founded for women of color and their allies.
The question looming before the chancellor is whether she will leave behind her a German Europe -- an EU designed according to German precepts, in the service of German interests -- or a European Germany -- a country that understands its well-being as inseparably intertwined with those of its European partners.
Where "The Daughter of Dawn" interprets Native American culture according to the precepts of 19th-century American melodrama, "The Return" simultaneously embodies the white supremacist attitudes of early 20th-century pulp fiction ("Tarzan" springs to mind) and, a particularly graphic buffalo slaughter notwithstanding, the countercultural romanticism of the 1960s.
Dr. Harvey Karp, the renowned professional behind Happiest Baby on the Block, sells products on his website that support his sleeping precepts, from tight swaddling sacks to constrain the baby's startle reflex to a $1,300 bassinet, the Snoo, that safely rocks and soothes baby for better nighttime sleep.
He and others believe that the flood of works that may be coming to institutions around the country in the next decade could broaden the definition of postmodern art, which is loosely defined as art from the mid-1970s onward that ran counter to the precepts of traditional Modernism.
Lacob was not the first venture capitalist to buy a franchise, but he is the first to operate one according to what might be called Silicon Valley precepts: nimble management, open communication, integrating the wisdom of outside advisers and continuous re-evaluation of what companies do and how they do it.
And while it does not undercut the pope's authority as directly as a starker change might have, it still carries a distinctive late-Marxist odor — a sense that the church's leadership is a little like the Soviet nomenklatura, bound to ideological precepts that they're no longer confident can really, truly work.
In fact, it says it right here if you look right there, that the rights of conscience are beyond the reach of any human power; they are given by God and cannot be encroached on by any human authority without a criminal disobedience of the precepts of natural or revealed religion.
Mexican consulates in the US "have intensified their work of protecting fellow nationals, foreseeing more severe immigration measures to be implemented by the authorities of this country, and possible violations to constitutional precepts during such operations and problems with due process," the country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
In an opinion in 2015, extending constitutional protections to same-sex marriage, Justice Kennedy wrote that "those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned," and they are protected in this mission by the First Amendment.
The neoliberal ideology that views government as an obstacle to the free market rather than as the architect of markets became so pervasive that progressives internalized some of its core precepts even as they battled the resulting policies — proposing remedies for specific "market failures" rather than a more fundamental transformation of markets.
Teachers had to teach the Five Precepts of Uncle Ho, and they had to inculcate the North Vietnamese agenda, to make sure the children understood that it was because of the American enemy that their country was divided into two, that their families were broken and that their homeland was being destroyed.
To wit, given mounting frustration over the way Wheeler has run the FCC, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has voted on multiple bills that would have dramatically altered the way the Commission conducts its business, effectively imposing a special carve-out for the FCC from the well-established precepts of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Parisians in the 1890s couldn't tell — a case of clippings here includes mocking reports from newspapers of the day — but he certainly acted the part, and the artists he invited to exhibit in the Rose+Croix salons had to obey strict precepts: no still lifes, no landscapes, only art in the service of the divine.
In other instances when Christian missionaries have plunged recklessly into hostile places like North Korea or the Taliban heartland, their frustrated governments have worked to secure their safety and release, under the legal and moral precepts that innocent people, no matter how misguided, should not be killed or jailed for attempting to spread their religious faith.
In 2013, the Boy Scouts decided to allow participation by gay children, and then it voted to end its ban on openly gay adult leaders, though the policy adopted in July 2015 gave license to church-sponsored units to choose local leaders sharing in their precepts, even if that meant restricting such positions to heterosexual men.
This "enlightened capitalism" has been replaced with a "disturbing" form of "libertarian conservatism," Bannon explains: It is a capitalism that really looks to make people commodities, and to objectify people, and to use them almost — as many of the precepts of Marx — and that is a form of capitalism, particularly to a younger generation [that] they're really finding quite attractive.
The relevant legal precepts include: The Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965, legislation that bans discrimination on the basis of race, nationality and ancestry, created by Congress to get rid of the old 'quota' system; The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits government actions that favor one religion over another and, The Due Process & Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution.
Recall that scientific precepts have been appropriated and misapplied to all sorts of things things that serve the needs of hateful, craven ghouls through the ages: Social Darwinism hiding the vampiric acts of an oligarch class in the armor of natural order; discoveries in genetics and heredity fueling the idea of "racial purity" which framed ghastly forced sterilization programs as a means of assisting natural selection.
Four days before the presidential election in 1992, the church had run ran full-page advertisements in USA Today and the Washington Times urging Christians not to vote for then-Governor Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE because his position on such issues as abortion and homosexuality violated Biblical precepts.
Paul Ryan has laid out his vision for government in dozens of bills, proposals, and white papers over the past decade, with occasional contradictions and tensions between them along the way, but two central precepts of Ryanism have remained constant: He wants to drastically cut basically everything the government does outside of defense and retirement spending, and he wants to radically restructure government safety net programs to turn over more control to states.
He utterly disregards the Jewish roots of Christianity and ignores the foundational principles of Judaism that he appropriates as if Jesus and Christianity invented them: for example, b'tzelem Elohim (the idea that each human being is created in the image of God), or the obligation to care for the widow and orphan; or the requirement to set aside the corners of one's field for the poor, all of which are fundamental Torah precepts.
It is old news that, as a candidate, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's foreign policy rhetoric departed sharply — dangerously, many would say — from decades-old precepts about the role of the United States in the world.
"The objective of the measure is to attract new investments, generating wealth for the country and employment and income for society, always based on the precepts of sustainability," the government said in a statement at the time, Opposition lawmaker Senator Randolfe Rodrigues called it the "biggest attack on the Amazon in the last 50 years" and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen was reported to have joined the campaign, accusing the government of selling off the Amazon.

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