What is "tenets"

Usage examples of "tenets".

You see, it dealt in part with a cult whose members were furious at scientists for rationalizing the mystic tenets of the believers.

He embodies those tenets that his people hold most dear, and they will gladly defend Bruenor with their very lives, singing a song to him even with their dying breaths.

Certain companies are throwing secret amounts of money to Linda Daschle to line her pocketbook, violating all tenets of decency.

He strongly held all those wise tenets, which are so well inculcated in that Politico-Peripatetic school of Exchange-alley.

There is nothing in the twenty tenets that will tell us how to resolve an Oedipus complex, or why pride can be wounded, or what honor means, or whether life is worth living.

So the twenty tenets are the backbone of our system, holding true for holons anywhere, or so I maintain.

Nonetheless, the twenty tenets do capture certain fundamentals in all four quadrants.

Bellah presents a standard version of some of the twenty tenets, and of course I agree with him on those points.

Catholics, and enlightened ones, at that, but can you honestly say that, at sometime or other, the tenets of the Catholic faith have not scared you stiff?