Word: precepting
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...first precept for dealing with patients: be nice to them...
...week's developments got somewhat hazier. As one witness explained, "There's no law against double-talk." Rosenbaum, blandly talking of his and Young's financial maneuverings, declared that he had been following no less an authority than Federal Judge Learned Hand by obeying the precept: "Every citizen has a duty to minimize his taxes...
...social innovator and appealer to the masses. A staunch wartime ally of Franklin Roosevelt, he still likes to say: "I am the best friend the United States ever had in Latin America." A resourceful foe of Communism. A longtime dictator who announced after his election: "This is the fundamental precept of democracy-the people elect and the elected man governs." An opportunist and master politician, the most skillful on the Latin American scene, supremely aware of the meaning of political power and how to use it, perhaps realistic and experienced enough now to refrain from abusing...
...majority, Justices E. Barrett Prettyman and James M. Proctor, conceded that Miss Bailey had been caught up in "harsh rules which run counter to every known precept of fairness to the private individual." But they decided that possible injury to her was not the central issue: "We do not think that the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution necessarily mean that a Government dedicated to those rights cannot preserve itself in the world as it is." Anyway, the Constitution was not involved, since no one has a constitutional right to a Government job. "If [the President] thinks that under present...
...people, failing to find a difference between a democratic and a totalitarian army, give up the puzzle altogether. Quoting Grace again, "The most effective method of establishing a society based on the democratic ideal is to abandon the use of the term as such, and, by practice and precept, lead the German people to accept this ideal...