Sentence examples for a core doctrine from inspiring English sources

The Democratic Party platform is expected to include a sentence declaring that the "doctrine of unilateral pre-emption has driven away our allies," and Mr. Kerry argued in the interview that while he would reserve the right to act pre-emptively, he would never make it a core doctrine of American foreign policy.

She was heavily sedated at the time of the verdict.The Jehovah's Witnesses propagate (in every corner of the earth) a millennarian variant of Christianity, insisting that the end of the present world era is imminent and denying the Trinity God in three persons which for most Christians is a core doctrine.

A core doctrine of liberalism holds that all individuals share a capacity for reason and self-government.

The Pure Land teachings are often regarded as popularized, devotional extensions of a more philosophically demanding contemplative tradition based on a core doctrine of emptiness or voidness.

So while quite a few people look to him as a spiritual leader, his own faith is based not on a denomination's core doctrine so much as on inner voices and convictions.

Al-Ashʿarī develops a rival position on human action, whose core doctrine is divine creation of the power by which a human being performs each of its actions (Frank 1966).

But the idea evolved rapidly as a core Air Force doctrine during the 1990's, when the Pentagon sharply cut its forces and bases deployed overseas.

At the synods, many bishops insisted that giving communion to divorced Catholics would undermine a core church doctrine that marriage is indissoluble.

The Chinese military is already highly suspicious of America's recent enhancement of its military power in areas surrounding China, its increased military contacts with and arms sales to Taiwan, and its adoption of pre-emption as a core strategic doctrine.

Philosophers such as Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi reinvigorated Confucianism with new commentary, infused with Buddhist ideals, and emphasized a new organization of classic texts that brought out the core doctrine of Neo-Confucianism.

The strategic bombing concept, however, was a major factor in the eventual victory and became the first core doctrine of the independent United States Air Force.