Sentence examples for founding doctrines from inspiring English sources

According to one of the discipline's founding doctrines, countries gain from specialisation and exchange, concentrating on what they do best and importing the rest.

Supporters of Mr. Annan's idea sometimes argue that intervening in intrastate conflict is no great departure from the U.N.'s founding doctrines -- that the Charter of 1945 leaves plenty of room for reaching inside a nation to stop slaughter or the widespread abuse of human rights.

But More's conception of the church is far from being a static appeal to tradition, since he sees the Spirit as actively engaged within the church till the end of time as its founding doctrines evolve and develop (CWM 6 1, 146 47).

But in times like these, in a city and a country controlled by fear, how can we hold true to these founding doctrines?

With the move, the Reverend Ike stretched Christian tenets, founding the doctrine he named the Science of Living and thereby relocating the idea of God to the interior of the self, calling it "God in me," with the power to bring the believer anything he or she desired in the way of health, wealth and peace of mind.

Though Locke's liberalism has been tremendously influential, his political theory is founded on doctrines of natural law and religion that are not nearly as evident as Locke assumes.

His heretical views influenced Milton and Locke, though Williams went much farther, founding the modern doctrine of separation of church and state, still much contested even in the liberal democracies.

The Pythagorean school of mathematics, founded on the doctrines of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, originally insisted that only natural and rational numbers exist.

From its founding, Stoic doctrine was popular with a following in Roman Greece and throughout the Roman Empire — including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius — until the closing of all pagan philosophy schools in 529 AD by order of the Emperor Justinian I, who perceived their pagan character as being at odds with the Christian faith.

We described utilitarianism as "the doctrine founded by John Stuart Mill" but it was Jeremy Bentham who advocated utilitarianism in collaboration with John Stuart's father, James.

A doctrine founded (theoretically) on equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity, could never in the long run compete with the human instinct to get ahead, to go one's own way.