Sentence examples for flexible doctrine from inspiring English sources

Antitrust is a flexible doctrine intended to prohibit "anticompetitive behavior" -- a concept whose definition shifts according to the economic and political thinking of the day.

It is a flexible doctrine that can embody a lot of policy positions.

"There was a lot of talk about a new, evolving, more flexible military doctrine called 'maneuver' strategy," Smith says, and then laughs.

NATO began thinking about a new doctrine, Flexible Response, which envisioned using conventional weapons to contain a Soviet incursion without going nuclear.

In 1967 a compromise was found in the doctrine of "flexible response".

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 erupted soon after his appointment, and he later claimed that it disillusioned him with the way the doctrine of flexible response was applied.

He then served as army chief of staff (1955 59), in which post he was an early advocate of the strategic doctrine of "flexible response," which emphasized the maintenance of conventional infantry forces as a prudent wartime alternative to the all-out use of nuclear weapons.

All attempts to devise ways for fighting in a nuclear environment came to nought, so that the preparations made for it (for example, in the Western doctrine of flexible response) took on a make-believe character and were forced to proceed as if nuclear weapons did not exist.

Romney tried to balance the conservative directives from church leadership in Utah with the desire of some Massachusetts members to have a more flexible application of religious doctrine.

Progress is a flexible concept, not a rigid doctrine.

The essential problem seems to be that current antitrust doctrine is not flexible enough to take account of how various communications markets are evolving, or should be expected to evolve.