Sentence examples for dogma from inspiring English sources

Latin America was the first to experience the disastrous impact of neoliberal dogma and the first to revolt against it.

To insist that all this be done within a year, entailing huge savings and cuts that will make a relatively benign situation worse, represents a triumph of dogma over pragmatism.

Though communal living has its downsides – Linda Grant writes about the pretentious political dogma and macrobiotic obsessions of a hippy commune in her novel We Had It So Good, while what went on in RD Laing's living experiments was altogether more disturbing – I'm convinced that witnessing how resources, material and intellectual, could be pooled at such a young age has shaped me as an adult.

Consider, too, the recent record of the party which laughably still calls itself Conservative: David Cameron and George Osborne's claims that there is a "global race" which can somehow be definitively either won or lost, their blithe return to fiscal dogma that was discredited in the 1930s – and, come to think of it, the dire decline of public libraries that has happened on their watch.

And obsessive fiscal conservatism was left unchallenged, hardening into the self-defeating dogma that now threatens to sink the currency union.

These winds are whipped up, though, not by any want of retrenchment but by an unbending adhesion to the austerity dogma.

First, he cleverly made the case that "economic credibility", pursued via deficit reduction, was not some abstract goal born of ideological dogma, but one that ensures low interest rates, keeping "people in their homes".

We have to forget sectarian dogma and understand that working together in certain areas, even if only in limited ways, can bring greater benefits than solo working.

What, in the eyes of humanity as opposed to ideology or dogma, can really be offensive about it?

Mr Cable is operating with powers drafted at a time when, away from the political fringe, there was no challenge to the dogma that financial markets could be left to settle company ownership for the common good.

He saw scientists in their white coats as having "all the attributes of religion – faith, dogma and priesthood".