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Example sentences for: precept

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The British court, reports the WP , supported Pinochet via the ancient British common law precept that a sovereign is immune from prosecution, and held that the Nuremberg principles did not apply because there is no international tribunal handling charges that Pinochet ordered mass murders and torture.
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At the time, the name was much mocked, violating as it did the precept that you don't choose words ending in the sound "iss " because people associate it with disease.
“Every studious man, in the course of a long and thoughtful life, has had occasion to experience the special value of some axiom or precept.