Sentence examples for use a doctrine from inspiring English sources

When the U.S. Supreme Court has considered such cases, it has tended to use a doctrine called "balance of interests," to determine whether a state has the right to exercise its implied police powers although that exercise may be in conflict with a federal law, either statutory or constitutional.

MacArthur directed that the two navies would use a common doctrine, FTP 167.

"China could use an 'effect doctrine' and take jurisdiction over any merger supplies to Chinese steel mills," said Pullen.

It goes against every standard democratic, Western legal doctrine to use a confession to a crime made under duress of this nature.

On this objection, the striving doctrine uses a kind of metaphorical language, the term 'striving', where a precise and literal account of what it is that is characteristic of mind is required.

Conteh was charged and prosecuted using a little-known legal doctrine called joint enterprise.

To determine if we could influence acceptance by targeting misconceptions about LDS religious doctrine, we used a quasi-experimental design comparing sections where religious doctrine was addressed (treatment condition, n = 1104) to a section in which it was not addressed (control condition, n = 101).

Using an obscure legal doctrine frequently relied upon by the apartheid government in its dying days, prosecutors did not accuse the police officers who shot and killed the strikers as they surged forward, machetes in hand.

Calvin and Servetus were first brought into contact in 1546 through a common acquaintance, Jean Frellon of Lyon; they exchanged letters debating doctrine; Calvin used a pseudonym as Charles d' Espeville, while Servetus left his unsigned.

It reveals, perhaps, a desire to use the doctrine of sin and righteousness as ammunition in our culture wars.

AMONG the Chinese there used to be a doctrine of faith, if you can call it that.