Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sanctity of individual liberty, in natural rights and non-aggression are common to all libertarians. Their basic political axiom is that no man, including representatives of governments, may initiate the use of force against the person or property of another. This is centered around a crucial libertarian tenet that each person should have complete control or ownership over his own life. Every man is free to enter into any voluntary contract or agreement that he believes will benefit his life...
...knowledgeable advertiser purposely offends the sensibilities of his audience in messages laden with more juvenile sarcasm than fact. Gallo, which has been preparing its anti-UFW ads without the aid or expertise of a professional agency, has done this twice. The company is apparently unaware of a basic tenet of advertising that holds that sarcasm alienates more readers than it convinces...
...course, to any basketball devotee over the past 15 years, that this should be Sanders's principal tenet should come as no surprise...
...best suited to the needs of a given community. It is this right which was voted on in 1969. I, for one, refuse to believe that 251 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted for a program of Black studies out of "fear." This vicious rumor, a tenet of conservative faith, must be laid to rest. I believe, instead, that they voted out of an analysis of the importance of Afro-American Studies and an understanding of how best to secure a serious pursuit of that objective. This understanding has been conspicuously absent from the present discussions--perhaps...
...lawyers and political scientists who viewed the pardoning of Nixon as an arbitrary assault, however unintended, on basic principles of justice. By a vote of 347 to 169, the California State Bar Association denounced the pardon as violating the tenet "that all persons stand equal before the law" and claimed that it threatened to "undermine" the "American system of justice." Leaders of the City Bar Association of New York charged that Ford had acted "prematurely and unwisely" and bluntly urged him to "permit the administration of justice to proceed without further hindrance...