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How to use filial piety in a sentence

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In Korean American communities, the marriage bond has in some ways become stronger than filial piety.
In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
I take the liberty of sending you this letter because of common interest and filial piety.
These values include filial piety, the bond of kinship and the raising of children.
In turn, all those present came closer and tearfully fulfilled this last duty of filial piety.
People believed that filial piety was the first of all kindnesses.
This picture was, for a long time, a model of paternal love and filial piety.
Refusal to accept heirship to a father could appear as a violation of the duty of filial piety.
Lawyer Paul Jewel argued that according to the custom of filial piety in the Chinese community, it is a son's responsibility to look after his parents in their old age.
When we say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, this tells us about his origins and shows us that everything about him relates to the Father in terms of recognition and filial piety.
The inevitable happened in 1995, when a scholar from a university in Lanzhou in north-western China claimed that, like the printing press, gunpowder, filial piety and slimming soap, golf was a Chinese invention.
He was very devoted to his father and practiced filial piety with fervor.
Confucian filial piety lives on Elizabeth Street.
The eighth king punishes those lacking in filial piety.
His son's spotted bowties were a gesture of filial piety.
Fortunately, filial piety, though fading, has not died out.
I am thinking especially of the gifts she has obtained for us during the month of May, in which we have tried to honor her with true filial piety, and specifically the closeness to Jesus she invites us to foster.
And if the character of Electra has inspired such authors as Sophocles to Eugene O'Neill, it is that what it incarnates, filial piety and vengeful hate, finds its echo in all times and boarders.
Many codes of ethics consider the bond of kinship as creating obligations between the related persons stronger than those between strangers, as in Confucian filial piety.
Owing to Confucian notions of filial piety, Chinese and Japanese emperors were sometimes able to 'retire' but continue to exert great influence over state policy.
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Some one remarked that this was a reward for the filial piety of the parents.
Is filial piety to be called into existence by the mere announcement of relationship?
On such an occasion as this no servant, no friend, no Mr startup, was allowed to interfere with her filial piety.
If a woman be married, it is good that she should treat her parents-in-law with filial piety, and her husband with reverence.
Nevertheless her filial piety was at that moment a touching sight.
Her filial piety gives her dreadful faith in a father's curses.
People said this was a reward for filial piety and brotherly love.
The root of all benevolent actions is filial piety and fraternal love.
A striking illustration, had the others understood it, of filial piety.
And what is the root of all goodness but filial piety and fraternal love?
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