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basic
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Taking each in turn, their basic tenets and relative political attractions can be highlighted.
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One of the basic tenets of the campaign finance system is disclosure.
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Another basic tenet of the free market is the free flow of labour.
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Trying to force people into unwanted roles violates the most basic tenet of Western culture.
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They boiled down to three basic tenets .
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Here Whitman sets forth his basic tenets and suggests the central movement that is to follow.
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Mostly, they have failed to acknowledge one basic tenet of the high-tech world: We know too much.
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Equally, revisionist conclusions conflict with many of the central tenets of Soviet orthodoxy.
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Thus the vast age of the Earth became the central tenet of geology.
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In this respect Hirschi shared the long-standing positivist rejection of the central tenet of classicism: deterrence.
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This was a central tenet of the bureaucratic model.
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This particular view has become one of the central tenets of the present Conservative government's economic policy.
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Some of the central tenets of these belief systems are as follows: 1.
fundamental
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A fundamental tenet of Adler's theory is that human actions are motivated by feelings of inferiority of some kind.
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He had questioned a fundamental tenet of her life, that young women are more attractive than older women.
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The fundamental tenet of Democritus' physics is that all that exists is matter.
main
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In order to reveal these foundations we must therefore examine the main tenets of conservative and liberal political thought.
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One of the main tenets of behaviourism is that behaviour can be shaped through reinforcement by reward.
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The main tenet of Sobchak's philosophy is that a woman should never forget to be a woman.
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A summary of the main tenets of monetarism and the monetarist policy recommendations are summarised at the end of the next chapter.
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But it reopened after a state judge ruled this month that the cooperative could do business under the tenets of Proposition 215.
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In order to reveal these foundations we must therefore examine the main tenets of conservative and liberal political thought.
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No dissent from or criticism of Kim Il Sung, his tenets, or his decisions was permitted.
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Priscillian seems, too, to have demanded adherence to at least certain tenets of Judaic law.
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Such tenets involved the papacy in action.
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This was a central tenet of the bureaucratic model.