Sentences with 'tenet'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tenet and other words derived from it.
• « The word Islam means "submission". Its central tenet is submission to the will of God as revealed to mankind by Muhammad. »
• « The central tenet of Romanticism was the idea that there were great, sometimes terrible, and literally "awesome" forces in the universe that exceeded humanity's rational ability to understand. Instead, all a human being could do was to attempt to pay homage to those forces - nature, the spirit or soul, the spirit of a people or a culture, or even death - through art. »
• « Many elite revolutionaries recoiled in horror at the idea of majority rule - the basic tenet of democracy - fearing that it would effectively create a "mob rule" that would ruin the hard-fought struggle for independence. »