(1) Actively exercised human responsibility in all uses of animals is offered as a practical and valid alternative to the extreme of abolitionism.
(2) These positions are characterized as ethical skepticism and relativism, absolute dominionism, anthropocentric consequentialism, reverence for life, utilitarianism, and abolitionism.
(3) To many northerners, abolitionism was the key issue by the mid-1850s and the newly minted Republican Party’s (which had also formed in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act) 1856 candidate was the relatively untested explorer John C Frémont.
(4) Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one.
Tenet
Definition:
(n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tenet was investigated by examining the Na(+)-H+ antiport in serially passed skin fibroblasts from blacks and whites.
(2) Waste reduction and resource efficiency are both key tenets of the circular economy, which advocates an end to “take, make, use, dispose” models of production in favour of “closed loop” approaches that see raw materials continually recycled and reused.
(3) He wondered why Tenet, the giant Texas-based hospital chain that owned Memorial, had not yet sent any means of rescue.
(4) No one in the United States has absolute power or an absolute right to do anything that violates the constitution This is American law for dummies, but Trump gives no indication of knowing its basic tenets.
(5) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(6) This article discusses the theoretical tenets of Kolb's learning style theory and applies this theory to patient education.
(7) Their use reflects basic assumptions that both the instrument and the underlying tenets of the theory are valid.
(8) BCG treatment increased the rate of recovery from tumour-induced immunosuppression, but within the BCG group immunocompetence improved most rapidly in the patients who relapsed-a finding that appears to contradict the tenet retionalising the use of immunological adjuvants as treatment.
(9) Since then, she has set about unravelling key aspects of Osborne’s economic policy and overturning central tenets of Cameron’s premiership, such as his opposition to bringing back grammar schools.
(10) The regiospecific formation of oligomers from unblocked monomers in aqueous solution is one of the central tenets in research on the origins of life on earth.
(11) Many Muslim scholars say that yoga is against the fundamental tenets of Islam – to pray to the sun, for example,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, a Muslim member of parliament.
(12) The tenets of root-canal treatment are the preparation, cleaning, and sealing of the root canals.
(13) A political solution founded on the tenets of the final communiqué of the Action Group for Syria (the Geneva communiqué) is the only path to peace.
(14) Economic development is not something Kim can much influence without abandoning the Marxist-Leninist tenets of centralised control and direction dating back to North Korea’s post-1945 beginnings as a Soviet satellite.
(15) The big question looming over Congress as Mr Tenet walked into his closed-door session yesterday was whether this shadow intelligence operation would survive national scrutiny and who would pay the price for allowing it to help steer the country into war.
(16) The basic tenets of RET help people distinguish between their own rational and irrational beliefs, and their consequent appropriate and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.
(17) Some of these findings go along with the tenet that the typical proliferating histiocyte in eosinophilic granuloma is a pathologic Langerhans' cell, or a close kindred to it.
(18) The tenet of the constancy of Cockett's perforating vessels does not hold against anatomical studies.
(19) Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, questions in our newspaper today the central tenet of the government's case for fighting in Afghanistan: that it is the frontline of a war that would otherwise be conducted on British streets.
(20) After a brief discussion of the history of this technological paradigm, the author analyzes eight of the dilemmas presented by childbirth to American society, demonstrating how they have been neatly resolved by obstetrical rituals specifically designed to removed birth's conceptual threat to the technological model by making birth appear, through technological means, to confirm instead of challenge the basic tenets of that model.