Sentence examples for doctrine outlined from inspiring English sources

The so-called one-per-cent doctrine, outlined by former Vice-President Dick Cheney, in 2001, holds that if a terrorist threat has a one-per-cent chance of being real, we should act as though the risk were a hundred per cent.

Given that the atmosphere is a community asset which serves all of us, we need to use the public trust doctrine (outlined by Mary Wood in her book Nature's Trust Environmental Laww for a New Ecological Age) to assert ownership through a public trust.

MPs have been assured by successive governments that their communications are not being intercepted by UK spies under the so-called Wilson doctrine outlined by former prime minister Harold Wilson, but the investigatory powers tribunal ruled last week that it has never had any legal force.

In this regard, Mr. Clinton is following a doctrine outlined in the 1980's by Caspar W. Weinberger, the Defense Secretary at the time, and followed by Gen. Colin L. Powell, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1991 Persian Gulf war: Military action requires clear and achievable objectives backed by strong public support.

The Russian Orthodox church, continuing its recovery from 70 years of atheist Soviet rule, established a detailed social doctrine outlining the church's position on issues such as abortion, bioethics, homosexuality and private property.

Numenius argues that Plato appropriated Pythagoras' doctrine and outlined it in his own work (fr. 24.56 62).

Marquette University, responding to questions from a reporter, issued a statement saying that the university "agrees with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Doctrine that the views outlined by Daniel Maguire in pamphlets he circulated to the hierarchy earlier this year do not represent the teachings of the Catholic Church".

During the British operations in Kosovo, Blair delivered a speech in Chicago, in which he outlined his "Doctrine of the International Community".

As outlined in the doctrine, counterinsurgency was to be a rigorously nuanced sort of warfare.

Philosophy, heavily influenced by rhetoric and ethics, was represented under Domitian and Trajan by Dio (or Chrysostom) of Prusa, who outlined the stoical doctrine of the ideal sovereign.

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.