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. »
« 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. »
« 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. »

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