Sentence examples for familiar doctrine from inspiring English sources

This is all perfectly familiar doctrine, and it therefore seems natural.

H. L. Mencken wrote: "The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom".

These were all actions for penalties, however, wherein the courts held to the familiar doctrine that the courts of one sovereignty will not enforce the penal laws of another.

The Court of Appeals invoked against the Commission the familiar doctrine that a lower court is bound to respect the mandate of an appellate tribunal and cannot reconsider questions which the mandate has laid at rest.

'It is familiar doctrine that the prohibition of a federal statute may not be set at naught, or its benefits denied, by state statutes or state common law rules.

The chosen sentence ("the Absolute enters into, but is itself incapable of, evolution and progress", which Ayer in fact slightly paraphrased from p. 442 of Appearance and Reality) was Bradley's expression of the familiar doctrine that ultimate reality, though changeless in itself, constitutes the ontological foundation of our finite world of change and becoming.

On a deeper level, Israel is confronting the problem of how to adapt an old and familiar military doctrine to changing times.

Advancing the familiar Conservative doctrine that more equalities legislation inflicts red tape and cost burdens on businesses, it also insists that caste discrimination affects only a small number of Britons and that education can adequately address the problem.

According to a familiar Kantian doctrine, a person is only praiseworthy for doing the right thing if the person acts only from the motive of duty, and not from an "inclination" (a desire) to do the right thing (Kant 1964).

Opposing the familiar Kantian doctrine is work by Nomy Arpaly, who argues that praiseworthiness in fact requires acting on certain desires namely, desires for what is in fact good (Arpaly 2002; see also Arpaly and Schroeder 2014).

Familiar equitable doctrines, applicable to the whole domain of law and unquestioned as part of the judicial process, are infused into specific enactments dealing only with the specific problems that call for specific formulation.