Perhaps the most fundamental precept of the common law is respect for the liberty of the individual.

Fully expecting research would validate these fundamental precepts, he was surprised to find the opposite.

"The Graham amendment embodies an effort to alter fundamental precepts of our constitutional order," the letter said.

Hassan saw in Saussure important fundamental precepts about how to think about the study of language.

A fundamental precept of education is that reform must be managed from within.

"Knowing your numbers is a fundamental precept of business."

Taking all these into account, a fundamental precept emerges: we must be able to learn.

"There are just too many bankers who forgot or ignored some fundamental precepts of the business," he said.

Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance, we will then, be surely doomed.

It is simply a matter of two distinct and inviolable steps and one fundamental precept.