Sentence examples for doctrine of a from inspiring English sources

The Pythagorean doctrine of a cyclic universe may also be derived from India, but the Indian theory of cosmic cycles is not attested in the 6th century bce.

So also in the present case there is a doctrine of a suffering Messiah in the scrolls, but not (so I believe) where Dupont-Sommer found it.

I am aware that the USA has been arguing for recognition of a broad doctrine of a right to use force to pre-empt danger in the future.

Like the religious wars of the 17th century, war becomes part of "grand designs," such as the rising of the proletariat in communist eschatology or the Nazi doctrine of a master race.

Such ideals need to be invoked boldly and quickly; that may be the strongest argument for a new doctrine of a responsibility to protect democracy, with a protocol for military or other forms of firm coercion when diplomacy fails.

It may have been an attempted joke at the then chancellor's closeness to the Chinese but the overriding image was McDonnell waving the doctrine of a famous Communist leader.

Many of those commentators who argued for the doctrine of a United States-enforced world order, including Rush Limbaugh, William Kristol and Andrew Sullivan, said Iraqis would welcome allied troops as liberators.

Evidently, its advocacy of common morality appealed to the traditional Roman sense of decorum and duty, and its doctrine of a world directed by an all-embracing providence struck a responsive chord in the 2nd-century emperors, though they deeply disapproved of its extremist offshoots, the cynics: Marcus Aurelius, as noted, was himself a stoic.