0 a rule for action or behaviour, especially obtained from moral thought:
1 a rule for action or behavior, esp. one based on moral consideration:
Some have formulated models of internalization, proposing historical actors who adopted such precepts wholeheartedly.
This paradigm continues to dominate, implicitly or explicitly, the thinking of the democracy community, so pervasive have its precepts become.
Its police acknowledge democratic precepts : they are a service focused on forming strategic partnerships with the public in the fight against crime.
Hence, his reliance on those precepts when tackling hard cases is not something that he is legally at liberty to eschew.
Are those precepts legal norms when they are applied by judges to the facts of hard cases for the purpose of resolving the disputes therein?
By contrast, the precepts of custom emerge and develop gradually instead of being brought into existence through discrete and authoritative acts.
Under rules, individuals are more likely to adjust their conduct to the precepts of the law.
A fundamental precept of the discipline of human factors is to involve the user in all stages of a system's design, from concept to product.
