"Primary tenets" means the main principles or core beliefs that form the foundation or main ideas of something, such as a theory, system, or philosophy. Full definition
Primary tenets of corporate inspired «reform» include disruption, labeling a certain percentage of people failures and firing them as a warning to those left behind. (tultican.com)
they Im sure will have some moral code — formal or internal — to live well with fellow human beings and so it does nt matter because then they re following jesus» primary tenet which was only to love one another. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
When a person begins to make accommodations in their religious world view for salvation by means other than Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, they have effectively denied one of the primary tenets of their faith. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)