Sentence examples for the 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In any case, "The Passenger" failed the primary requirement of the artistic doctrine of Socialist Realism, which was to exalt Soviet life.

The Rev. Thomas Weinandy, executive director of the bishops' Secretariat for Doctrine, said, "The primary concern was not over feminism or nonfeminism.

It remains one of the primary outlines of Eastern Orthodox doctrines as set forth in refutation of Roman Catholic and Protestant claims.

This doctrine applies when the primary purpose of the transaction is to thwart a shareholder vote.