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.
David also founded the Abbey of Holyrood and created several royal burghs (towns with special trading privileges), including Edinburgh and Canongate; the latter was under the jurisdiction of the monks, or “canons,” of Holyrood.
Long before the Information Age, man struggled to digest the mounds of words contained in his religious, cultural, and legal canons.
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.
[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.]