Sentence examples for doctrinal lines from inspiring English sources

Doctrinal lines hardened; the fight over nuclear power became a fight between doves and hawks as much as between greens and scorners of tree-hugging.

He may feel that because we live in an age when acts of religious accommodation are possible and, for the sake of world peace, necessary it is more important than ever to draw doctrinal lines in the sand.

Both my companions are Sunni, and both speak of discrimination against Sunnis in the country at large, but the shop manager says that taxi drivers are beginning only to pick up passengers from their own religious affiliation; the city itself, he says, is beginning to fragment along doctrinal lines.

I talked about Barack as a person who did not draw doctrinal lines in the sand nor consign other people to hell if they did not believe what he believed.

When Priestley became its minister, Mill Hill Chapel was one of the oldest and most respected Dissenting congregations in England; however, during the early 18th century the congregation had fractured along doctrinal lines, and was losing members to the charismatic Methodist movement.

Leaders of an emerging United States fell into doctrinal line, with tragic consequences for the First Americans.

Scalia frequently cites his commitment to the First Amendment as proof that he does not hew to a doctrinal line.

May 2014: Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, head of the CDF, delivers what he calls a "blunt" talk at the Vatican to the LCWR leaders, telling them they have been thumbing their nose at Rome's demands to toe the doctrinal line and they need to obey or face serious consequences.

It does not, however, distinguish logical empiricism from logical positivism, and it is doubtful that any principled such boundary can be drawn along doctrinal or sociological lines.

Surprisingly, American opinions on the war sometimes crossed traditional party lines and doctrinal affiliation, with many to the right of the avowedly conservative Bush seeing the war as an act of reckless internationalism and some to the political left appalled by the Baʿthist regime's brutal human rights violations and its consistent aggression giving grudging support to military action.

When George W. Bush was campaigning for President, he and the people around him didn't seem to be proposing a great doctrinal shift, along the lines of the policy of containment of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence which the United States maintained during the Cold War.