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tenet | American Dictionary

tenet
noun[ C ]
us/ˈten·ɪt/
a principle that is an accepted belief of a particular group:
A major tenet of the women’s movement has been that society needs their talents.

Examples of tenet

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But it found considerable resonance in many of the basic tenets of folk attitudes and created a strong bond between village and nation.
Instead, politics turns faith into dogma and results in deviance from the noble tenets of "original" faith and, finally, fails to universalize ethics.
A key tenet of local biology is that the body is inextricably linked with place.
The comparative national framework reveals that for the local level, the central tenets of liberalism in ideology and practice were striking in their similarity.
This is because of the well-tested tenet that fixed-income investment returns cannot be expected to match equity returns based on historical evidence.
They faced ancient and distinguished cultures, many of whose tenets were diametrically opposed to those they advocated.
It does not take a great deal of reasoning to see why these tenets are at the very least indifferent to the practice of puja.
Interestingly, both positions are in keeping with cognitive linguistic tenets.
But was 'de-commodification' ever a key social democratic tenet?
Our work on cross-modal processing has employed such methods, obtaining results both in keeping with and at odds with the authors' basic tenets.
Specifically, it supports tenets (2*) and (3*), that non-personal objects have no intrinsic value, and that by loving such objects we mix ourselves with them.
The safety of survivors of domestic violence is the central tenet of this research project.
There are a number of other tenets associated with the cognitive linguistic enterprise which inform the present study.
Ironically, however, the increasingly powerful science used in patient care may undermine adherence to this tenet.
One of the central tenets used to describe welfare economics-consumer sovereignty-is that consumers are the best judges of their own welfare (4;17).
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Collocations withtenet

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basic tenet
The model is built on the basictenet of binomial dichotomy.
central tenet
The safety of survivors of domestic violence is the centraltenet of this research project.
core tenet
It is argued that as a coretenet of the practice experience it is timely and appropriate to review perceptions of risk and uncertainty.
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