Sentence examples for doctrine advanced by from inspiring English sources

When my father was born in 1922, the world was abuzz with the self-determination doctrine advanced by President Woodrow Wilson.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954 Declared racial segregation in public schools to be an inherent violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, thereby striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine advanced by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

Near the end of the book, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of predestination, a doctrine advanced by Augustine in opposition to the teachings of Pelagius.

Despite his highly acclaimed work in many other fields of philosophy, Nozick remained best known for the libertarian doctrine advanced in Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

He strenuously rejected the doctrine of nullification, advanced by Calhoun and other South Carolinians, which asserted the rights of states to declare federal laws null and void within their borders.

Sthiramati's famous commentary on the Thirty Verses does include extensive philosophical defenses of the doctrines advanced in the verses.

Yet the cautious subtlety of Augustine's suggestions and the crucial distinction he drew between sacred and secular history make it important not to confuse his carefully qualified doctrines with the cruder positions advanced by some of his self-proclaimed successors.

Unfortunately, the internationalist agenda of tying down America's military with U.N.-backed doctrines and law has probably been advanced by this intervention.

A philosopher, no less than a statesman, may be eclectic not on principle but because he perceives the intrinsic merit of doctrines that happen to have been advanced by opposite parties.

And his attacks on certain deep ideas that he finds uncongenial — the theory of truth advanced by the great 20th-century logician Alfred Tarski, say, or the doctrine of an innate "language of thought," championed by Steven Pinker among others — have a facile hit-and-run quality.

South Carolina had advanced by beating Stetson, 8-2.