Sentence examples for doctrines in which from inspiring English sources

Although orthodox Islam considered music illegal, the acceptance of the Sufi doctrines, in which music was an accepted means to the realization of God, enabled Muslim rulers and noblemen to extend their patronage to this art.

They were consequently most critical of moral and metaphysical doctrines in which change and action are relegated to the "merely practical," on the lowest level of the hierarchy of values.

Donald Trump has been accused by the European Union of pioneering a new American doctrine in which there are "no friends, only enemies".

He is rightly matched against Keynes in upholding a pure free-market doctrine, in which economic salvation comes through faith not works – and especially not public works.

To put it concretely, this is a doctrine in which small groups of American men and women are outside the wire in dangerous places in remote valleys, providing security, gathering intelligence, helping to establish courts and building schools and roads.

Of course the new Bush doctrine, in which the United States will seek "regime change" in nations that we judge might be future threats, is driven by high moral purpose.

But the second Bush administration has modified that equation in favor of innovative tactics that quickly exploit enemy weaknesses with ruthless bombardment from the air under a doctrine in which the use of force is unrestrained by borders or allies.

Even before came the Monroe Doctrine, in which America's fifth president warned Europeans that "we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety".

Salvation is, in Paul's thought, therefore, not found by a conscientious moralism but rather is a gift of grace, a doctrine in which Paul was anticipated by Philo.

The sexual-assault plea was entered under the so-called Alford doctrine, in which the defendant does not agree to the facts but concedes that the state has enough evidence to get a conviction.

From the outset it was less critical, precisely because it was more systematic, aiming at a self-sufficient doctrine in which the science of knowledge and ethics were intimately united.