Sentence examples for adopt the doctrine of from inspiring English sources

The recent recapture of the strategic town of Qusair by forces loyal to the government of Bashar al-Assad and the White House's public acknowledgment that chemical weapons have been employed by the Syrian regime — thereby crossing a "red line" — persuaded Mr. Obama to adopt the doctrine of intervention and provide arms to the rebels.

It is not clear when Maclean became aware of it, but by the time he wrote of his experiences in the Levant (in 1817) he had absorbed Manningham's argument and was further asserting that there was a "despotic" Catholic tendency whereby Catholic nations were obliged to adopt the doctrine of contagion as an "article of faith".

NATO adopted the doctrine of mutual assured destruction, according to which even conventional Soviet attacks would be answered by an all-out nuclear strike.

Sir Frank Newsam had advised the Home Secretary: "It would be a bad day for this country if we adopted the doctrine of crime passionel.

Under Mr Chávez, Venezuela's armed forces have adopted the doctrine of "asymmetric warfare", which explicitly endorses acts of terrorism in the event of an American attack.But there is little reason to believe that Mr Chávez would risk international isolation by allowing Iran to launch attacks against American targets from Venezuela.

Peirce created a novel and productive analogy in representation between chemistry and the logic of relation by adopting the doctrine of valency as the key element for the analogy, as shown in the above two diagrams.

At the beginning of this section, a word about terminology is necessary: "Fundamentalism" in its original sense refers to conservative Christian Protestants who adopted the doctrine of biblical inerrancy in the early twentieth century as a defense of traditional core Christian doctrines such as virgin birth and resurrection of Jesus.

And in 2005, a summit of world leaders adopted the doctrine of the "responsibility to protect," which obliged the international community to step in when civilians are under attack and their governments fail to protect them.

The British forces in East Africa adopted the doctrine of "mobile defence" that was already being used in the Western Desert in North Africa—units embarked on long, constant patrols to guard wells and deny water supplies to the Italians.

Himmler adopted the doctrine of Auftragstaktik ("mission command"), whereby orders were given as broad directives, with authority delegated downward to the appropriate level to carry them out in a timely and efficient manner.

Parliament dissolved, and six years elapsed before Hume returned to the House; during that time he adopted the doctrines of James Mill and the philosophical radicals.