Sentence examples for reigning doctrine from inspiring English sources
A year ago, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; today, the reigning doctrine in Washington appears to be "Be afraid.
According to the reigning "cultural materialist" doctrine — which owed as much to Marx as to the noble-savage ideal — conflict among groups arose only when there was competition for strategic resources: food, tools, land.
The Romers' essay exemplifies the economic doctrine that reigned up until a few months ago: fiscal stimulus plans that try to time a recession are dangerous, unproven and unnecessary.
Even though the court finally decided he was innocent, the episode demonstrated that anticommunism reigned as supreme ideology or doctrine that even a National Assemblyman could not challenge it.6 In this sense, anticommunism in South Korea's context was more a religious dogma than just a policy or political ideology.
This doctrine, known as "shareholder primacy," now reigns in the corporate world today, and it has so increased the power of those whom it has benefited that it will not be easy to dislodge.
Major innovations in organization and doctrine have been credited to the Prussian king Frederick the Great (reigned 1740 86).
Bute became a friend and mentor of Augusta's son George III; Augusta, having absorbed the doctrines of Bolingbroke, insisted her son must rule, not just reign.
Although their doctrine lost its direct political relevance during the reign of the emperor Wudi (reigned 141 87 bce), their ensemble of teachings concerning both ideal government and practices for prolonging life continued to evoke considerable interest and is perhaps the earliest truly Daoist movement of which there is clear historical evidence.
