The Reformed theological tradition is known for its rather severe doctrines such as predestination, which is the view that since God is all-knowing and all-controlling, he knew before the Universe was created who will go to Heaven or Hell these "elect" are foreordained.
Both it, and Mr Basayev, had become mixed up with the severe Wahhabist doctrines which, after the collapse of communism, seeped into the Caucasus from the Middle East.
The doctrine imposed severe limitations on the pope, making him subject to the total church and to a general council of bishops, and strengthened both the state and the national bodies of bishops.
The IMF have been in town a lot recently, delivering their shock doctrine of severe austerity cuts.
Doctrine (7) poses a severe challenge to both interpretation and translation, and it is the main task of Schleiermacher's theories to cope with this challenge.
There are several variants to this doctrine.
No Shia has become a cabinet minister or general or even a headmistress in a state school, reflecting the Saudis' severe Wahhabism, in effect the kingdom's official doctrine.
A long way of saying that a kind of music arises from severe American religion — the expansive energy of narrow doctrine — that is hard to find among more liberal orders and even rarer in the province of reason alone.
Dulles also enunciated the doctrine of "massive retaliation", threatening a severe US response to any Soviet aggression.
BEIJING, Oct. 11 — China's Communist Party, devoted in recent years to expanding the economy at any cost, on Wednesday endorsed a new doctrine that puts more emphasis on tackling the severe side effects of unrestrained growth.
