Sentence examples for doctrine allows for from inspiring English sources

Even though the castle doctrine allows for the use of reasonable force inside one's home, outside, an individual has a duty to retreat, if able to do so, before using force.

Douglas W. Kmiec, a conservative Catholic legal scholar at Pepperdine School of Law, said that although the formal teachings of the American Catholic bishops put primacy on the sanctity of life, including fetuses and embryos, doctrine allows for voting on other grounds, including the Iraq war, which the Vatican has opposed from the start.

The doctrine of "mutual mistake" is a well-established legal doctrine allowing for the cancellation of contracts when both parties are innocently mistaken about a crucial element.

The president also has approved a doctrine allowing for the killing of American citizens by the government without hearing of trial -- at least in the case of Americans living overseas who have become traitorous "enemy combatants".

That's because the U.S. and South Carolina are separate legal entities and the "dual sovereignty" doctrine allows prosecutions for the same offense by both governments.

A common-law doctrine allows courts to deny tax benefits for a transaction that was arranged simply to save tax.

The "alter ego doctrine" allows the disregarding of a corporate entity and imposing personal liability on shareholders for corporate obligations when the individual and corporate personalities are essentially one and observing the corporate form would promote injustice or inequity.

Because many of the pictures it will use will be from television, editors are able to rely generously on the fair-use doctrine, which allows for limited reproduction of copyrighted images.

The Romney campaign said Saturday that it had received a letter from NBC but was reluctant to take the ad off the air because it believes it falls within the provisions of the fair-use doctrine, which allows for limited use of copyrighted materials.

All of these activities have generally been protected by "fair use" -- a legal doctrine that allows for free distribution of copyrighted information under a variety of circumstances, especially for educational use.

Although the "dual sovereignty" doctrine allows New York State to charge Mr. Aleynikov with a similar crime, the state also has a statute providing that "a person may not be twice prosecuted for the same offense".