Word: precept
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...Organization have largely operated on the assumption that, in any major clash of wills, the Soviet Union would behave rationally rather than rashly. That comfortable outlook has been severely jarred by the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, as the NATO Council conceded in Brussels last week. NATO's guiding precept from now on, concluded the Council in a position paper, must be the unpredictability of Soviet behavior...
Appeal for a Mandate. For nearly three weeks, as revolt spread throughout France, De Gaulle said nothing in public, true to his precept that "nothing enhances authority better than silence." Then he went on television, his image preceded and followed only by a test pattern, since the employees at the state-owned television studios had gone out on strike too. His sparse hair carefully combed over his pate, he looked rested and relaxed, a paragon of composure. "Everyone understands," he said, "the significance of the present events?in our universities and then in the social fields...
...first principle, a definition of competence, postulates that the academic, by virtue of long study, has superior insight into the problems falling within his field, and consequently, deserves a large say in their solution. Well accepted in suburbia, the precept has protected urban school professionals from mayors and and communities for generations...
Violating His Own Precepts. Such explicit counsel would seem to run counter to Giap's oft-expressed public warning that North Viet Nam is ready to fight for 5, 10, 15 or 20 years to defeat the U.S. in Viet Nam. And there is also much in Giap's new strategy that flies in the face of his own guerrilla doctrine of warfare. One of his maxims is to fight only when the odds are overwhelmingly in his favor and success is certain, a precept that his troops violated nearly everywhere they struck in the course of his general offensive...
Critics were quick to accuse the Government of overreacting, and some even charged that the Administration had attempted to stifle the protest in advance by publicizing the capital's no-nonsense preparations. It was clear, nonetheless, that Lyndon Johnson was adhering to the precept set forth in a 1965 Supreme Court decision rendered by U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, then an Associate Justice. "The rights of free speech and assembly," wrote Goldberg in a majority opinion, "while fundamental in our democratic society, still do: not mean that everyone with opinions; or beliefs may address a group at any public place...