main tenet

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk
/meɪn/us
/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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tenet
noun[C]
uk
/ˈten.ɪt/us
/ˈten.ɪt/
one of the principles on which a belief or theory ...
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According to themaintenetof the 'demarcation' approach, specific features such as intangibility and co-determination confer uniqueness to services.
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Abstinence from alcohol was amaintenetof church teaching.
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Themaintenetof the junta ideology (and mythology) was gone and so was the collective.
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Amaintenetwas the establishment of communal life for the clergy in the cathedral chapter.
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Freire defined this as amaintenetof critical pedagogy.
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Themaintenetof its business plan was the goal of providing a business class service on a coach fare structure.
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Anothermaintenetis enjoying leisure time in the company of others, especially loved ones, and shunning self-absorption because it resists the normality of individualism and isolation of post-modern society.
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The old romance is what we would consider pre-novel prose amaintenetof such writings is their fantastic nature.
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Themaintenetof contextualist epistemology, no matter what account of knowledge it is wedded to, is that knowledge attributions are context-sensitive.
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This developed the concept of target derived regulation which became themaintenetin the neurotrophic theory.
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Figure 1 compares the main tenets of the three theories.
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The main tenets of this theoretical framework are that at each stage of life there are main social fields in which individuals are faced with social task demands.
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The purpose of this section is both to outline the main tenets of this approach, and to indicate how it will be developed to account for the abstract noun time.
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Nonetheless, a general summary of the main tenets of this method could capture this pluralism while usefully introducing the reader to it.
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If there really were a single religion possessed of very good evidence for the truth of its main tenets, then the problem of diversity would be greatly mitigated.
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Ar istotle's theory of the common sense formed the foundations of late medieval scholastic faculty psychology, and some of its main tenets were not rejected by his seventeenth-centur y critics.
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We might do worse than to reconsider one of the main tenets of the 1981 reforms, and one which, for dyslexics, has had a less than wholly benign influence.
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One of the main tenets of the community charge legislation was that people should pay for the services that they use.
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It has two main tenets: one is that prison works; the other is that prison will work better if it is made much more disagreeable for prisoners.
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The foundations main tenets are ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, and self-determination and justice.
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