Sentence examples for making doctrine from inspiring English sources

He surmised that had radar been a factor in making doctrine, many theorists would have reasoned that massed defenses would make all strategic air attacks too costly, inhibiting if not entirely suppressing the concepts that proved decisive in World War II and essential to the creation of the United States Air Force.

In general, I think Tracy's decision to make doctrine the focus of the book is a mistake: he is good at explicating it but poor at making it important.

Two of Collins' books deal with the authenticity of Article 20 of the Thirty nine Articles and whether the church has the power to make doctrine.

He suggests that Swinburne's real error lies in his attempt to make the doctrine intelligible at all, which robs the doctrine of its mystery, turning it into "something that any bright philosophy or theology student can clearly grasp here and now", rather than something that will be understood only "when we see the Triune God face to face" (56; cf. Alston 2005 and section 3 below).

In either case, they are likely to make bad doctrine.

"Peacetime has a tendency to make the doctrine less focused on what is needed on the battlefield," Dr. Thomas said.

Why would the United States make a doctrine out of what is a fact and flaunt it before the world?

"It makes a doctrine out of a physical fact," he said, "and puts it in everyone's face".

Abroad, his administration has stepped up its earlier efforts to define a doctrine of "pre-emptive intervention": America will in some cases strike before others strike it.The danger of mass-destruction weapons of any kind makes the doctrine of striking first seem more justifiable not just against al-Qaeda operatives but also, most crucially, against rogue states.

President Bush has directed his top national security aides to make a doctrine of pre-emptive action against states and terrorist groups trying to develop weapons of mass destruction into the foundation of a new national security strategy, according to senior administration officials drafting the document.

This is a moderate Stoic cosmopolitanism, and empire made the doctrine very easy for many Romans by identifying the Roman patria with the cosmopolis itself.