Sentence examples for practice the doctrine from inspiring English sources

Earlier in the day, Hew had told me that the Amish-Mennonites practice the doctrine of non-resistance; they refuse to bear arms or press charges.

The Chinese have acquired or are developing a variety of weapons and technologies that would enable them to put into practice the doctrine of "anti-access, area denial," Mr. Harold said.

In clinical practice, the doctrine of informed consent rose to dominance during the course of the 20th century.

Mr. Bornstein does a good job of weaving together the story of Ashoka, a group named for an Indian emperor who practiced the doctrine of nonviolence, with individual tales and placing their activities in a wider context.

But, in practice, the doctrines of holiness and perfectionism were largely ignored by American Methodists during the early decades of the 19th century.

While China preaches, and largely practices, the doctrine of "peaceful rise," avoiding confrontation abroad in order to focus on development at home, Russia acts increasingly like an expansionist 19th-century power, pressing at its borders.

Unless something like that context is recovered, neither the practice nor the doctrine of indulgences will make sense to most Catholics.

Moreover, because the ideas and arguments involved in this doctrine are both obscure and unconvincing, we find, in practice, that the doctrine has little or no influence in directing human conduct.

Outraged at what she saw as his hypocrisy, she published a story titled "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case" in her paper Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly on November 2, 1872; the article made detailed allegations that America's most renowned clergyman was secretly practicing the free-love doctrines that he denounced from the pulpit.

One of those students, Pol Pot, was later to return to his native Cambodia and put into practice the 'totalising' doctrine that has as its target the 'otherness' of the bourgeousie".

In practice, the Fairness Doctrine was always tricky to enforce, and so in 1987 is was done away with.