doctrine

[ˈdɑːktrɪn]

Definition:
1. A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, a political party, etc.
2. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.

Use 'doctrine' in a sentence:

1. The influence of the doctrine of the mean on the design of digital art.
2. But the doctrine has, nonetheless, been extremely influential.
3. The determinist doctrines in question maintained that certain people were born to be slaves.
4. That doctrine is deterrence.
5. The swindler wanted all along to take action, but had no chance, while Ji Zi time and again urged him to teach the Taoist doctrine.
6. “ Nixon Doctrine ”;
7. Following World War II, the first U.S. commitment to Europe came in the form of the 1947 Truman Doctrine.
8. His doctrines have seduced many into error.
9. The doctrine is unchangeable.
10. But the new doctrine, in fact, is coy on this point.
11. It is one of his doctrines that life is too short to hold grudges.
12. Clinton: Well, Henry's the expert on theory and doctrine.
13. The fact is that Douglass was attracted to these democratic-capitalist ideals of his time because they could be used to attack slavery and the doctrine of White supremacy.
14. On the Debate of Making Use of the Doctrine of Comparative Cost.
15. Heilbroner's theory has become doctrine in some economics textbooks: for example, Monte Palmer disparages nontechnological rural development projects as inhibiting constructive change.
16. I disagree with the doctrine that the writer's life and intention have no bearing on his texts.
17. Both developed doctrine of prosody.
18. The council met to consider changes to doctrine.
19. And that may not be within church doctrine.
20. The doctor 's doctrine undid one dollar and a dozen of collars.
21. He says that he is a fool. He tells this fable of the hawk and the nightingale, which illustrates really the doctrine of might over right.
22. If Americans could only free themselves from their antigovernment doctrine, they would begin to see that American's problems are not insoluble.
23. The neoclassical marginal productivity doctrine freats the factors of production like any commodity.
24. Soon Gandhi was expounding the doctrine of ahimsa ( nonviolence).
25. The Bush-McCain doctrine needs to be given time to work.
26. They cling to the doctrine that high wages cause unemployment.
27. The Original Position and Social Contract doctrine.
28. It is a very dangerous doctrine.
29. There isn't one country in the Middle East that now endorses the Eisenhower Doctrine.
30. To modern eyes, such doctrines appear harsh, even cruel.
31. This became known as the Fukuda doctrine.
32. The purpose of this article is to explain a new doctrine.
33. The other change is over doctrine and delivery.
34. Someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will.
35. Is there an Obama doctrine?
36. The Ahimsa doctrine is a late development in Brahmanical culture.
37. So is this a distinctive Obama doctrine?
38. They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
39. This fact, however, has not barred the application of the Winters doctrine.
40. Roman doctrine, of course, had prized the state of celibacy, insisting that it was the superior state over marriage.
41. That doctrine has been abandoned.
42. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
43. The jet had become a symbol of resistance to the Gates Doctrine.
44. It is a doctrine they bring, and one must subscribe to it.
45. To date, the Doctrine of Cheng Fu still exerts its admonishing effect.
46. Different doctrines prevail in different times.
47. The doctrine was based on three fundamental principles.
48. As a Christian, he has to abide by Christian doctrine.
49. We naturally associate the name of Darwin with the doctrine of evolution.
50. He erected a new doctrine of precedent.
51. Although qualitative variance among nerve energies was never rigidly disproved, the doctrine was generally abandoned in favor of the opposing view.
52. It's the end of the doctrine in all but name.
53. The African National Congress today dropped its doctrine of nationalizing industry in favour of a mixed economy.
54. They were less willing to be spoon-fed doctrines from Japan.
55. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.
56. First, it has declared a newly expansive naval doctrine.
57. The doctrine of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx's economic theory.