Ancient texts set forth the central precepts of loyalty and filial piety, which would throw aside selfishness and allow them to complete their "holy task."

The changes also represent a significant step away from central precepts of managed care by Aetna, one of the nation's largest health insurers.

In New York City, a group of arts educators is creating a "museum school" that would teach a central precept of art education: how to learn to look at an object.

It has confirmed a central precept: European monetary union (EMU), if it comes about, will take place at two (or several) speeds.

The great pleasure of "Millennium Skiva" was its distillation of a central precept of dance: that the physically impossible is achievable.

The Balrog, far more than a parasite, is a hive mind well above the human level of development, so that killing it would violate the central precept of the League of Peoples.

Shinmin no Michi injoined all Japanese to follow the central precepts of loyalty and filial piety, which would throw aside selfishness and allow them to complete their "holy task."

Mr. Dole said his main campaign focus would be on the economy, and he chastised the news media for questioning his central economic precept: that he can cut taxes and balance the budget.

The first of Buddhism's four central precepts is: suffering exists.

Making the pilgrimage, or haj, is a central precept of Islam.