Sentence examples for doctrine in which the from inspiring English sources

Of course the new Bush doctrine, in which the United States will seek "regime change" in nations that we judge might be future threats, is driven by high moral purpose.

But the second Bush administration has modified that equation in favor of innovative tactics that quickly exploit enemy weaknesses with ruthless bombardment from the air under a doctrine in which the use of force is unrestrained by borders or allies.

The sexual-assault plea was entered under the so-called Alford doctrine, in which the defendant does not agree to the facts but concedes that the state has enough evidence to get a conviction.

From the outset it was less critical, precisely because it was more systematic, aiming at a self-sufficient doctrine in which the science of knowledge and ethics were intimately united.

Pico equates this secret interpretation of the law with the Cabala, an esoteric doctrine in which the words and numbers of Hebrew scripture are interpreted according to a mystical system (1965, 30; see also Heptaplus 1965, 68).

The United States will continue to stand by these principles, because of the conviction of the American people that unless the doctrine in which these principles are inherent once again governs the relations between nations, the rule of reason, of justice and of law – in other words, the basis of modern civilization itself – cannot be preserved.

He strongly opposed the new defence doctrine NSC-68, in which the National Security Council defined containment as "a policy of calculated and gradual coercion".

In September 1968, during a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers Partyy one month after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Brezhnev outlined the Brezhnev Doctrine, in which he claimed the right to violate the sovereignty of any country attempting to replace Marxism Leninism with capitalism.

Publication in Moscow the week before of a new military doctrine for the decade, in which the possibility of NATO's expanding its membership eastward was held up as an existential threat to Russian security, certified the opposite.

An opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by three liberal Justices, was concerned with a particular kind of discrimination known in free speech doctrine as viewpoint discrimination, in which the government singles out some speech for disfavor based on disapproval of the views expressed — and which is unconstitutional.

When he became president a year later he introduced a military doctrine of "de-escalation", in which the threat of a limited nuclear strike, probably though not necessarily against a military target, could be used to force an opponent back to the status quo ante.