Sentence examples for doctrine upon from inspiring English sources

The sect bases its philosophical doctrine upon the Shribhashya ("Beautiful Commentary") of Ramanuja, an exposition of the Vedanta-sutras.

To teach with authority means that the teacher is able to impose his doctrine upon the learner under a religious and moral obligation.

The doctrine upon which the group is based is not dependent upon leaders, like Bin Laden or Mr. Awlaki, for its reproduction.

The doctrine upon which the cases rest was this,—that imports, in the constitutional sense, embrace only goods brought from a foreign country, and consequently do not include merchandise shipped from one state to another.

The English courts, from which our doctrine upon this subject is derived, necessarily take judicial notice of acts of parliament, yet there a departure is made, and a new cause of action is asserted, when a party who has at first relied upon the common law afterwards rests his claim to recovery upon a statute.

The relentless work eventually shattered Houston's health; he resigned from the NAACP in 1949, shortly before the first in a series of heart attacks that killed him at 54. Marshall took his place, guiding the campaign to its greatest victory, the monumental 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that toppled the "separate but equal" doctrine upon which Jim Crow had come to depend.

Such a venture would carry the advantage of leaving intact the parental right to educate children in their faith tradition, but would also go some way towards recognising the potentially damaging impact of certain religious doctrines upon developing minds.

Conservatives had imposed a set of doctrines upon the denomination in 1910, declaring that the Christian faith required belief in the inerrant inspiration of the Bible, Christ's Virgin Birth, and his Atonement, Resurrection, and miracle-working power.

This is as conclusively foreclosed by the decisions of this court as is the doctrine resting upon the decision in Brown v. Maryland.

For almost half a century, without ever being stopped by the ills of old age, Anna Louis Strong dedicated hersolf pas— sionately to glorifying China— her mountains, deserts and revolutions, and especially the Marxist doctrine imposed upon the country.

And, in the passage above, he carefully avoids saying that the operation of any patterned doctrine infringes upon one's self-ownership by way of appropriating one's labor.