(a.) Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
(n.) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
(3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(4) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) These data suggest that there are fundamental differences in the mechanisms of induction of virally and chemically induced thymic lymphomas in AKR mice.
(7) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
(8) The crystallographic parameters of four different unit cells, all of which are based on hexagonal packing arrangements, indicate that the fundamental unit of the complex is composed of six gene 5 protein dimers.
(9) Which brings us to the next fundamental question: Was it a terrorist attack?
(10) The trials have yielded much fundamental and clinical data of general relevance in the radiotherapy of malignant disease.
(11) With an increased understanding of the fundamental biologic characteristics of brain tumors, we should be able to improve the outlook for these patients.
(12) The negative inotropic effect is fundamentally related to its effects on calcium release, with additional contributions from its effects on calcium entry.
(13) Thus functional plasticity in response to early experience appears to be a fundamental aspect of cortical development.
(14) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(15) It is argued that the provision of accurate and useful probabilistic assessments of future events should be a fundamental task for biostatisticians collaborating in clinical or experimental medicine, and we explore two aspects of obtaining and evaluating such predictions.
(16) However, the most fundamental questions concerning the pathogenesis of Cushing's disease remain unanswered.
(17) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(18) This study contains the fundamentals and the technique of the intraarticular application of an MRI contrast agent in connection with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI arthrography).
(19) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(20) Our fundamental market is 75% done,” he said last weekend, “and when we sign one midfield player that crucial work will be done.” The manager did not rule out further purchases, though.
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.