Sentence examples for for doctrinal reasons from inspiring English sources

Cromwell is no religious fanatic — he embraces Protestantism not for doctrinal reasons but because it's economically more advantageous to the crown and also more democratic — and no sentimentalist.

Hattersley was always considered to be on the right of the Labour party: he believes in market forces and advocates public ownership only when it makes sense, not for antiquated doctrinal reasons.

But by lumping current and capital spending together when calculating the balance of the national budget, Osborne is, for apparently doctrinal reasons, deliberately squeezing annual current spending by a lot more than would be necessary to achieve balance in current spending, let alone a surplus.

For whatever insane doctrinal reasons, the tiny WBC protests outside funerals of US soldiers killed in battle, holding signs saying "God hates fags".

Besides the doctrinal reasons for plural marriage, the practice made some economic sense, as many of the plural wives were single women who arrived in Utah without brothers or fathers to offer them societal support.

"There's ample evidence in the case that Perich was fired because of her disability and the assertion of her legal rights -- and not for any religious or doctrinal reasons," he said.

An America "in serious decline for domestic and/or external reasons," he says, would lead to a breakdown in the ability of the international system to prevent conflict once it became evident that "America is unwilling or unable to protect states it once considered, for national interest and/ or doctrinal reasons, worthy of its engagement".

But there are other, less doctrinal reasons why the sovereignty of Republic ought to be surprising.

Each theory of development has had its own distinctive prescription for doctrinal stability and doctrinal change.

IslamOnline, the Egyptian-based website supervised for doctrinal correctness by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, also joined in.

His own attitude toward art was pragmatic: it could be used for doctrinal instruction.