Sentence examples for primary doctrine from inspiring English sources

The primary doctrine in question attributed to Richard Rufus and criticised by Roger Bacon is, in general terms, that the signification of a name can remain in the absence of any actual thing signified by that name, although, as Bacon suggests, the proponents of this view must supply some kind of "habitual being" for the lost actual significate of such names.

An article in the January 1 , 1926Watch Tower introduced new emphasis on the importance of the name "Jehovah"; from 1929 Rutherford taught that the vindication of God's name which would ultimately occur when millions of unbelievers were destroyed at Armageddon was the primary doctrine of Christianity and more important than God's display of goodness or grace toward humankind.

Pico's project, part of a search for harmonies connecting all the world's wisdom traditions, was to ground primary doctrines of Christology and trinitarian theology in Cabala, which he traced to the oral Torah confided to Moses and passed on in secret through Esdras and other sages.

Up until the Second Berlin Crisis, the primary military doctrine of both the U.S. and its NATO allies had focused on "Massive Retaliation," the idea that the USSR would be deterred from any attack on western Europe by the threat of nuclear annihilation.

The primary element of this doctrine is the belief that Israel cannot afford to lose a single war.

His primary objection to the doctrine is that it cannot be effectively implemented because U.S. Army forces "are not organized, trained or equipped" to carry out the peaceful development work that counterinsurgency demands of them.

Her personal religious inclinations tended toward a sort of mystical pietism, but she was also influenced by the humanists Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Guillaume Briçonnet, who saw St. Paul's Epistles as a primary source of Christian doctrine.

Their primary weapon was the doctrine of pre-emption, which said, in effect, that because the national banks were governed by federal rules, they were immune from state consumer protection laws.

Third, the owners claimed that the pursuant to the doctrine of "primary jurisdiction," the court should defer to the National Labor Relations Board's ruling on the validity of the NFLPA's disclaimer of interest before proceeding with the case.

These thinkers took a position that was intermediate between the traditionalists, who remained attached to the literal expressions of the primary sources of Islamic doctrines (the Qurʾān, Islamic scripture; and the Hadith, sayings and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad) and who abhorred reasoning, and those whose reasoning led them to abandon the Islamic community (the ummah) altogether.

That doctrine is the primary official charge against Iran today: it might pose a deterrent to US and Israeli force.