Sentence examples for settled doctrine from inspiring English sources

At this point, it's settled doctrine.

They have been given up to five years to revise the group's statutes, approve of every speaker at the group's public programs and replace a handbook the group used to facilitate dialogue on matters that the Vatican said should be settled doctrine.

Perhaps settled doctrine is not negotiable, but the development of doctrine in response to changing circumstances must be.

"But if this principle is to do any meaningful work in supporting the rule of law," he said, "it must at least demand a significant justification, beyond the preferences of five justices, for overturning settled doctrine".

What the mandate does do, Sachs suggests, is highlight the potential problems with those settled doctrines, and the extent to which they might merit revision by the current court.

Evidently, if genuine progress is to be made regarding the final purport of Aristotle's doctrine of the active mind, it will be achieved by investigating De Anima iii 5 holistically, by ascertaining, that is, how various hypotheses concerning its possible claims and their likely significance integrate with other, comparatively settled doctrines in Aristotelian psychology and metaphysics.

There was consequently no settled planning doctrine in the developing countries, and the approach of governments remained empirical.

Aylmer became archdeacon of Lincoln in 1562 and was appointed a member of the convocation that reformed and settled the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England.

But proving that two scholars can interpret the same body of rulings as differently as two canvassers can read the same ballot, Richard Fallon, a Harvard law professor, said he found the decision consistent with the Rehnquist court's activist nature, which has led it, he said, to reverse previously settled constitutional doctrine.

It's settled judicial doctrine that if the Court can rule on narrow grounds and avoid a constitutional ruling, which of course cannot be reversed by Congress in a statute, it should do so.

This posture represents an astonishing challenge to the long-settled doctrine that the right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment is closely tied to membership in the militia.