Precepts in example sentence
Stephen P. Cohen, a renowned analyst of India, has argued that, since the country gained independence, its“officials have inculcated the precepts of George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796: that India, like the United States, inhabits its own geographical sphere, in India’s case between the Himalayas and the Wide Indian Ocean, and thus [it] is in a position of both dominance and detachment.