Even the Communist Party could be said to have basically embraced its tenets.

It violates the tenets of every religion, and it conflicts with common sense.

And that brings me to my first major of two tenets of Half the Sky.

If you don t accept this, maybe it's time for you to review the basic tenets of democracy.

We must not abandon the core tenets of European civilization, including the obligation to shelter refugees from evil.

Uruguay s government, too, has not deviated from the basic tenets of the policies of the conservative government that preceded it.

Indeed, it is thanks to a few thinkers and activists that states have gradually moved away from age old tenets.

China and other emerging market countries pursued an economic strategy that defied the standard tenets of growth and development theory.

Obviously, many of its members and leaders do subscribe to these tenets, and disapprove in private of López Obrador s rabble rousing antics.

We felt one of the tenets of this field was to make absolutely certain we could distinguish synthetic DNA from natural DNA.

The president s domestic agenda is bold and revolutionary, but it clashes frontally with the most fundamental tenets of America s liberal and individualistic ethos.

Huntington sees something sinister at work within Islam that Islam's social outcomes reflect, not its level of modernity, but the tenets of its faith.

Fundamental tenets of a democratic society, such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press are increasingly coming under pressure.

This is not to say that journalists should not check their own facts (or that priests should not observe the tenets of their own religion).

Not everyone subscribed to this theory, but it was the West's strongest political force for several decades. Christian Democrats, and even conservative parties, adopted its tenets.

Excessive reliance on debt finance has undermined basic tenets of democracy, with government finance increasingly determined not by electoral cycles and political deliberation, but by repayment schedules.

Finally, and interestingly (if unpersuasive to many), all of Iran s leaders continue to insist that weapons of mass destruction are incompatible with the basic tenets of Islam.

Confucianism s tenets still provide an inner compass to most East Asians in a post Confucian age, just as Biblical admonitions remain standards for the West in a post religious age.

But after years of preaching and practicing one of Zionism s main tenets, will the removal of settlements continue in the West Bank, or will this be a one time exception?

Its tenets were highly appropriate to the settled, sophisticated agrarian civilizations of pre nineteenth century East Asia, for they knitted together society and polity in a manner calculated to promote stability and harmony.

NEW YORK The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund s effort to distance itself from its own long standing tenets on capital controls and labor market flexibility.

Indeed, the Jasmine Revolution embodies all the tenets of the liberal political order that the West has been advocating since the Atlantic Charter of 1941 a yearning for freedom, opportunity, and the rule of law.

Putin s defiant foreign policy is a response mediated by an authoritarian political tradition, the reactionary tenets of Orthodox Christianity, and pride in Russia s vast geography and natural wealth to the humiliating loss of an empire.

If the neo liberal Washington Consensus has been forgotten, perhaps it wasn t because its tenets were misguided, but because the world offered an opportunity to realize the most important of them without having to suffer the humiliation of a shrinking economy.

Fourth, it wants to avoid the further economic pain that universally applied sanctions would cause. Finally, and interestingly (if unpersuasive to many), all of Iran s leaders continue to insist that weapons of mass destruction are incompatible with the basic tenets of Islam.