Sentence examples for contrary doctrine from inspiring English sources

Which brings me to the third reason the deficit scolds have lost influence: the contrary doctrine, the claim that we need to practice fiscal austerity even in a depressed economy, has failed decisively in practice.

The government is arguing that despite longstanding doctrine to the contrary — doctrine reflected in the Uniform Code of Military Justice — American courts should not consider international law to be the exclusive basis for defining a war crime and thus for limiting the jurisdiction of a military commission.

It must be remembered that most fourteenth-century philosophers were nominalists in this sense because they associated the contrary doctrine with Plato, with whom they were familiar only secondarily as one of the authors whose views are thoroughly discredited by Aristotle in Book I of the Metaphysics.[37] But medieval nominalism involved much more than rejecting Platonic universals.

But traditionalists and conservative evangelicals oppose the historic change, claiming the concept of women bishops runs contrary to doctrine.

One idea that has emerged at the synod is that of "graduality"; that certain behaviors, although contrary to doctrine, can nonetheless lead people on the right path.

Contrary to doctrine, it was not affiliated with a particular APA.

The dissenters argued that the history of U.S. citizenship law had broken with English common law tradition after independence citing as an example the embracing in the U.S. of the right of expatriation (giving up of one's native citizenship) and the rejection of the contrary British doctrine of perpetual allegiance.

The absence of parliamentary authorisation for the executive to override primary legislation... will be contrary to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty and therefore it will be acting unlawfully".

Taking these principles as their basis, the Old Catholics deny that they teach anything which is contrary to the doctrine and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.

Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, the Army officer who in February investigated abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison, criticized the practice of allowing ghost detainees there and at other detention centers as "deceptive, contrary to Army doctrine, and in violation of international law".

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport and the New York-based Careolic Leagupsete upsethatat Catholics for a Free Choice, which supports several causes contrary to church doctrine, is one of the groups eligible for money from the organization, the Connecticut State Employees Campaign for Charitable Givingg.