Sentence examples for minor doctrine from inspiring English sources

Her lawyers argued that Cassandra's refusal of consent ought to fall under the "mature minor doctrine", a widely recognised legal principle that instructs medical providers to honour the consent, or the withholding of consent, of unemancipated minors bright enough to grasp the consequences of their considered decisions about medical treatment.

This case study included discussion of patient confidentiality and legal issues related to emancipation of minors, the mature minor doctrine, and state-specific issues related to insurance/billing practices and the type of medical care sought.

He was sticking to the minor leaguer's doctrine that could be a guiding principle to his new home.

In return for recognizing the pope as head of the Christian church and accepting a few minor changes in doctrine, Romanian clerics were promised a political and economic status equal to that of Roman Catholic priests.

With some relatively minor alterations, Anselm's doctrine of the Atonement passed over into the theology of the Latin church, forming the basis of both Roman Catholic and orthodox Protestant ideas of the work of Christ.

We believe… that Nature does make jumps now and again, and a recognition of that fact is of no small importance in disposing of many minor objections to the doctrine of transmutation" (Huxley 1860, p. 77).

Witnesses are usually the first ones to admit that occasionally minor changes are made to their doctrine.

Despite their many shared beliefs, not all Christian denominations agree on all doctrines, and both major and minor differences on teachings and beliefs have persisted throughout Christianity for centuries.

Surprisingly, for all his admiration for the master, he can only enumerate a few innovative doctrines; and they are of such a minor importance that we shall not even discuss them in this article.

President Grover Cleveland invoked the Monroe Doctrine, warning the British not to intervene in a minor border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana.

is formalised into Jain doctrine as the first major vow of the ascetics and first minor vow of the laity.