Sentence examples for doctrine would be from inspiring English sources

It seems to me that cutting the military budget in the willy-nilly fashion you prescribe without articulating a national security doctrine would be like remodeling a New York skyscraper without an architectural plan.

Desires may arise from natural selection or from cultural tradition or from random walks or from a combination of them all — but Buddhist doctrine would be unaffected by any of these "whys".

I said I would want to know if a candidate's faith guided his or her views on the issues, if religious doctrine would be a justification for excluding some categories of citizen (gays, for example) from the rights and protections the country promises, or if religious narrative overshadowed a candidate's respect for serious science and verifiable history.

At the other extreme, Doug Lewis, executive director of the Election Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization in Houston that specializes in election administration, said all that states would have to do to comply with the equal-protection doctrine would be to enact a clear definition of what constitutes a vote (a fully perforated chad, say) and precise rules for recounts.

"But, in view of the continuity between the most normal and the most abnormal cases of seeing, such a doctrine would be utterly implausible and could be defended only by the most desperate special pleading" (1952a, p. 9).

This doctrine would be revived during the Texas annexation controversy.

In a more humane society where Banham's doctrines would be measured against the subdividers' rape of the land and the lead particles in little kids' lungs, the author might be stood up against a wall and shot".

He comments that these philosophical doctrines would be without value if the same teachings were not also found in Scripture.

In 1925 he gained full control over what doctrines would be taught in Watch Tower Society publications, overruling the refusal by the five-man Editorial Committee to publish his article, "Birth of the Nation", which contained significant doctrinal changes.

MR. MUSEVENI said blind faith in the market -- or in any other economic doctrine -- would be foolish for African leaders, who are grappling with legacies and immediate problems that are almost unimaginable in the developed world.

According to his new doctrine this would be the third alliance between god and mankind, the first coming at the time of the founding of Judaism and Hinduism, and the second around the time that Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism began.