Words similar to canons

Example sentences for: canons

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Analyzed in light of these canons of interpretation, the Corporation's appropriations act requires that an alien must be "present in the United States" in order to be eligible for legal assistance.
However, I am not so ignorant of the canons of journalism (and of common sense) that I would take a plausible fellow like Brian Arthur at face value without checking up on him.
(As the quotation above indicates, the 1102 Canons were in Latin, thus not valid citation fodder for the OED .)
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses "a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure."
[Many words which have now fallen out of use will be reborn, and many now prominent will disappear, if usage, which owns the right to decide, and the law, and the canons of speech, so choose.]