Sentence examples for doctrine laid from inspiring English sources

He lost, but lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. saw his case as a way to attack the "separate but equal" doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, which was used to justify public school segregation.

If the statute now under review can be sustained as valid, it must be in virtue of the doctrine laid down in the third paragraph, and it will aid in the effort to reach a correct conclusion in that respect if we shall first consider the principal decisions of this court where that doctrine has been applied.

The ruling overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine laid down by the court in 1896.

Finally, the Regular Army itself would be reformed by the development of a new operational and training doctrine, laid down in Douglas Haig's new Field Service Pocket Book.

Other faulty assumptions lie behind the failure of the population-centric COIN doctrine laid out by Petraeus in both Afghanistan and Iraq, said retired Marine Col. T.X.

There is no doctrine laid out in 3 John, which is strictly a personal letter, but the overall theme is the importance of hospitality, especially when it comes to men who were working to spread the gospel.

The Jain doctrine lays a strong emphasis on samyaktva, that is, rationality and logic.

Much of his speech is familiar invocation of the just war doctrine: laying out the brutality of Isis, as if the eight British jets we're sending could put an end to it; asking "what message would [not acting] send?", as if the self-image of the British state were worth a single innocent life.

Rep. 778, and accords with the fundamental doctrines laid down by Mr. Sedgwick, (1 Sedg. Dam.

Rep. 747, has given its sanction to the broad doctrines laid down in the Heaton-Peninsular Case, supra.

In the longer treatise entitled Tongshu ("Explanatory Text"), Zhou's restatement and reinterpretation of Confucian doctrines laid the basis for the ethics of later Neo-Confucianism.