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  • Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.   (source)
    doctrine = authoritative belief
  • It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted.   (source)
    doctrine = beliefs and principles
  • The real fun is working up hatred between ... [them] when neither party could possibly state the difference between, say, Hooker's doctrine and Thomas Aquinas', in any form which would hold water for five minutes.   (source)
    doctrine = beliefs
  • Buddhists are more complicated—because of the Buddha's doctrine of anatta, which basically says that people don't have eternal souls.†   (source)
  • First is the Doctrine of Correspondence, which says, 'similarity enhances sympathy.'†   (source)
  • The Ousters obviously had not read the FORCE doctrine books.†   (source)
  • Plotinus brought with him to Rome a doctrine of salvation that was to compete seriously with Christianity when its time came.†   (source)
  • Later, loudspeakers, from which Mao's official revolutionary doctrines were broadcast, would hang from poles or sit on people's rooftops.†   (source)
  • I would think of Haarlem, each substantial church set behind its wrought-iron fence and its barrier of doctrine.†   (source)
  • I was not baptized a Catholic, but it suits me, its beliefs and doctrines sit easily with me.†   (source)
  • Ramius nodded thoughtfully, thinking to himself that zampoliti really ought to know something about the ships they supervised, as mandated by Party doctrine.†   (source)
  • They even came to think about the possibility of coordinating the popular elements of both parties, doing away with the influence of the military men and professional politicians, and setting up a humanitarian regime that would take the best from each doctrine.†   (source)
  • The villagers of Carvahall lacked a single overriding doctrine, but they did share a collection of superstitions and rituals, most of which concerned warding off bad luck.†   (source)
  • It's an atheistic, practical, functional doctrine.†   (source)
  • In the 1980s, Van Riper would often take part in training exercises, and, according to military doctrine, he would be required to perform versions of the kind of analytical, systematic decision making that JFCOM was testing in Millennium Challenge.†   (source)
  • It seemed not to belong in Yves' twenty-one-year-old face, to have no relation to his open, childlike grin, his puppylike playfulness, the adolescent ardor with which he embraced, then rejected, people, doctrines, theories.†   (source)
  • According to standard doctrine, there are basically three ways to stop a virus—vaccines, drugs, and biocontainment.†   (source)
  • These two doctrines existed in uneasy harmony, although I did not then see them as antagonistic.†   (source)
  • But these doctrines existed more on paper than on plantations, just as Pakistani laws exist in the statute books but don't impede brothel owners who choose to eliminate troublesome girls.†   (source)
  • He'd simply sat there mutely as the Council found her parents—two of Phoenix's most brilliant scientists—to be in violation of the Gaia Doctrine, the rules established after the Cataclysm to ensure the survival of the human race.†   (source)
  • If he holds to the Monophysite doctrine that Christ had only a divine nature, not a human one, then—†   (source)
  • at the mother, the woman, the mother herself, the anecdotal aspect of a woman in a chair, thinking, and immensely interesting she was, so Quaker-prim and still, faraway-seeming but only because she was lost, Klara thought, in memory, caught in the midst of a memory trance, a strong and elegiac presence despite the painter's, the son's, doctrinal priorities.†   (source)
  • "And someone, please, to teach us doctrine," Mau added.†   (source)
  • Her task had been to instruct the prince in the doctrines of the Faith, and she had done that.†   (source)
  • This post-cold-war mission seems to write new doctrine each day.†   (source)
  • Latin American theologians had developed the doctrine, and in the late 1960s Latin America's Catholic bishops had endorsed some of its tenets.†   (source)
  • Effective emergency action became impossible, but Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren were both too timid to raise any outcry against Captain Black, who scrupulously enforced each day the doctrine of 'Continual Reaffirmation' that he had originated, a doctrine designed to trap all those men who had become disloyal since the last time they had signed a loyalty oath the day before.†   (source)
  • Pakistan's dysfunctional educational system made advancing Wahhabi doctrine a simple matter of economics.†   (source)
  • The Navy has its ships, the Air Force has its planes, the Army its detailed doctrine, but 'culture'—the values and assumptions that shape its members—is all the Marines have.†   (source)
  • When you have a belief system that says you shouldn't listen to the clergy, and that you should continually ask questions, instead of accepting doctrine, it's hard to form a community.†   (source)
  • True, but Jesus had little to do with LDS doctrine.†   (source)
  • Basic terror-camp doctrine.†   (source)
  • Contrary to basic military doctrine, Washington had divided his forces between Manhattan and Long Island.†   (source)
  • He rolls his blind eyes, figuring the odds, snatching through his mind for doctrines.†   (source)
  • "I emphatically explained to Handy Randy that the doctrine of stare decisis has to be challenged if the times have altered the perceptions that existed when the original decisions were rendered," expounded Prefontaine.†   (source)
  • He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.†   (source)
  • Avoid restatement of doctrine.†   (source)
  • The doctrine of the Cultural Revolution implied continuous anarchy.†   (source)
  • She knew the general doctrine on sex, held by people in one form or another, the doctrine that sex was an ugly weakness of man's lower nature, to be condoned regretfully.†   (source)
  • It sounds good—but it's so contrary to orthodox doctrine that I need to see it.†   (source)
  • But while both brothers believed strongly in the cause and worked tirelessly toward spreading its doctrine, it was Lewis who embodied abolition-word, deed, and spirit.†   (source)
  • Fear of such judgment may be feeding the free-floating anxiety that we have found, which manifests itself in adamant doctrines of correctness and the firm conviction that "other people" are ruining the language.†   (source)
  • It's a good thing Thrower's out at the privy right now, or I reckon he'd wet his pants over that doctrine.†   (source)
  • He had thrown away the book of cavalry doctrine and they loved him for it.†   (source)
  • This will further illustrate this important doctrine.†   (source)
  • Since my father was a conservative of a particularly fevered strain, it was natural for me to study carefully every creed or doctrine to which he was irrationally and diametrically opposed.†   (source)
  • They are places where, by doctrine and tradition, operatives spend their final night before departing Israel for missions abroad.†   (source)
  • They fought at the turn of a doctrine.†   (source)
  • That night, thin, bespectacled William Lloyd Garrison wrote on the wall of his cell: "William Lloyd Garrison was put into this cell on Monday afternoon, October 21, 1835, to save him from the violence of a respectable and influential mob, who sought to destroy him for preaching the abominable and dangerous doctrine that all men are created equal, and that all oppression is odious in the sight of God."†   (source)
  • Speaking precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."†   (source)
  • The philosophical battles of the nineteenth century were hardly so far behind that they had been forgotten, and the doctrine which maintained that life is caused and sustained by a vital principle apart from physical and chemical forces, and that life is self-sustaining and self-evolving, had put up quite a fight before Darwin and his successors had produced triumph after triumph for the mechanistic view.†   (source)
  • I would have wild morning and afternoon romps in the hay and all of this could only enhance the quality of my literary output, despite the prevailing bleak doctrine concerning sexual "sublimation."†   (source)
  • So, in my talks with Indar about Africa—the purpose of his outfit, the Domain, his anxieties about imported doctrines, the danger to Africa of its very newness, first ideas being caught most securely by new minds as sticky as adhesive tape—I felt that between us lay some dishonesty, or just an omission, some blank, around which we both had to walk carefully.†   (source)
  • The Kremlin pointed out that the United States has traditionally championed the doctrine of Freedom of the Seas.†   (source)
  • With a soft, yet firm voice the exalted one spoke, taught the four main doctrines, taught the eightfold path, patiently he went the usual path of the teachings, of the examples, of the repetitions, brightly and quietly his voice hovered over the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.†   (source)
  • a. barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style."†   (source)
  • He came regularly once a week with a bag of breadcrumbs and, after he had fed these to the peacock, he would come in and sit by the side of her bed and explain the doctrines of the Church.†   (source)
  • MORE Master Rich is newly converted to the doctrines of Machiavelli.†   (source)
  • Shura Shlesinger knew mathematics, esoteric Indian doctrine, the addresses of the best-known teachers at the Moscow Conservatory, who was living with whom, and God only knows what else.†   (source)
  • His election to Congress as a strong supporter of the doctrines of Calhoun and Jefferson Davis followed.†   (source)
  • She ended with a short homily on the dignity of work, which is a doctrine bred into the bones of every white South African.†   (source)
  • Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.   (source)
  • The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.   (source)
    doctrine = commonly accepted belief
  • Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit.   (source)
  • In the ramifications of party doctrine she had not the faintest interest.   (source)
    doctrine = beliefs and principles
  • Except where it touched upon her own life she had no interest in Party doctrine.   (source)
  • Its rulers are not held together by blood-ties but by adherence to a common doctrine.   (source)
    doctrine = system of beliefs and principles
  • Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party —   (source)
    doctrines = beliefs and principles
  • In the past the need for a hierarchical form of society had been the doctrine specifically of the High.   (source)
    doctrine = belief
  • But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.   (source)
  • There then rose schools of thinkers who interpreted history as a cyclical process and claimed to show that inequality was the unalterable law of human life. This doctrine, of course, had always had its adherents, but in the manner in which it was now put forward there was a significant change.   (source)
  • Yet she had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was and what doctrines he was supposed to represent.   (source)
    doctrines = beliefs and principles
  • The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century.   (source)
  • They called it their Luciferian Doctrine.†   (source)
  • I had believed this communist doctrine for so many years.†   (source)
  • He was merely expounding the Biblical doctrine of salvation and damnation.†   (source)
  • We use it regularly in our courses in doctrinal apologetics.†   (source)
  • From what your file says, you could teach Party doctrine to the Politburo, Yevgeni Konstantinovich.†   (source)
  • "Soviet naval doctrine is to use surface ships to support submarine operations," Harris explained.†   (source)
  • Wood didn't think the doctrine was sound, but that was all right with him.†   (source)
  • "There is no extravagance in the pursuit of safety," Petrov quoted doctrine.†   (source)
  • If he refuses to change his doctrine and loses, he will be banished as the law requires.†   (source)
  • The questions ran deeper for me, struggling with Mormon doctrine.†   (source)
  • The Gaia Doctrine is harsh enough as it is.†   (source)
  • "Doctrine to make us better," said Mau, giving Daphne an imploring look.†   (source)
  • What was the tactical command and doctrine?†   (source)
  • So to a considerable degree Adams was preaching what had become accepted doctrine at home.†   (source)
  • I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.†   (source)
  • One thing no doctrine about, no memorized answers, was life in Luna.†   (source)
  • This was the classic doctrine of the Forest People.†   (source)
  • But this doctrine is not in the proposed Constitution.†   (source)
  • They call it a morality of mercy and a doctrine of love for man.†   (source)
  • In Haiti, the essence of the doctrine came alive for him.†   (source)
  • Disregard of tactical command and doctrine, the team being in simulated combat.†   (source)
  • You are under arrest for violation of the Gaia Doctrine.†   (source)
  • The sole result of that murderous doctrine was to remove morality from life.†   (source)
  • Should we follow the same doctrine—in another shape in the New World?†   (source)
  • Do you observe what human faculty that doctrine was designed to ignore?†   (source)
  • The Old World doctrine said that people were made to serve kings, not kings to serve the people.†   (source)
  • One doctrine called for guarding every intersection such as this one.†   (source)
  • We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.†   (source)
  • But I believe this doctrine was never heard of until it was broached on the present occasion.†   (source)
  • Is the consequence from this doctrine admissible?†   (source)
  • But the greater his terror, the more fiercely he clings to the murderous doctrines that choke him.†   (source)
  • And, as far as this doctrine is true, it also applies to the State governments.†   (source)
  • As silly as it sounds, some respectable people support the doctrine.†   (source)
  • This is an important doctrine in all the American constitutions.†   (source)
  • Several books on Christian doctrine seemed equally inappropriate.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in him of righteousness, hard doctrine.†   (source)
  • Now then, about Accelerationism — it is a simple doctrine of sharing.†   (source)
  • They were replaced by the doctrine of individuality and freedom.†   (source)
  • You are the most harmless of men, and your doctrine the gentlest.†   (source)
  • I realize that your doctrine is a thing which could have been remembered by any among the First.†   (source)
  • To have brought such a doctrine into the world-I can see why the gods were envious.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh gazed at the window, which displayed part of the church's doctrinal statement: WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BEGOTTEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND IS BOTH TRUE MAN AND GOD.†   (source)
  • The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment — the way it always was, Crake would have said — and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.†   (source)
  • According to Rosicrucian doctrine, the order was "built on esoteric truths of the ancient past," truths which had to be "concealed from the average man" and which promised great insight into "the spiritual realm."†   (source)
  • I am a lieutenant with the Swiss Guard, and by the Holy Doctrine governing the property on which you are now standing, you are subject to search and seizure.†   (source)
  • Far off in the incense-layered gloom, small chimes sounded "At any rate, Your Excellency, I hoped that some aspect of your Church's doctrine might shed light on my daughter's illness."†   (source)
  • But Aquinas's point was that there need not be any conflict between a philosopher like Aristotle and the Christian doctrine.†   (source)
  • In fact, Thomas Jefferson was so convinced the Bible's true message was hidden that he literally cut up the pages and reedited the book, attempting, in his words, 'to do away with the artificial scaffolding and restore the genuine doctrines.'†   (source)
  • Remember Plato's doctrine of ideas, Sophie, and the way he distinguished between the world of ideas and the sensory world.†   (source)
  • Melio and the other Hyperion experts at Reichs say that the Shrike Cult has nothing like the Merlin sickness in their doctrine and the indigenies on Hyperion have no legends of the malady or clues to its cure.†   (source)
  • Even from this visit of Paul in Athens we sense a coming collision between Greek philosophy and the doctrine of Christian redemption.†   (source)
  • The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and— incidentally-exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.†   (source)
  • FORCE doctrine held that, while a world could be reduced from orbit, actual military invasion of an industrialized planet was an impossibility; the problems with landing logistics, the immense area to be occupied, and the unwieldy size of the invading army were considered to be the ultimate arguments against invasion.†   (source)
  • He knew everything there was on Soviet combat doctrine—and knew that Ramius had written a good deal of it.†   (source)
  • Both in ecclesiastic and scientific circles, the Biblical doctrine of the immutability of all vegetable and animal species was strictly adhered to.†   (source)
  • But in contrast to Plato's clear two-fold reality, Plotinus's doctrine is characterized by an experience of wholeness.†   (source)
  • Soviet tactical doctrine seemed to call for them mainly in defensive roles: as "interceptor submarines" they could protect their own missile subs, and with their high speed they could engage American attack submarines, then evade counterattack.†   (source)
  • "The most disturbing thing of all," added Mikhail Alexandrov, the Party theoretician who had replaced the dead Mikhail Suslov and was even more determined than the departed ideologue to be simon-pure on Party doctrine, "is how tolerant the Main Political Administration has been toward this renegade.†   (source)
  • They took him up to the Areopagos hill and asked him: "May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?†   (source)
  • In this he stands firmly on Biblical ground, rejecting the doctrine of Plotinus that everything is one.†   (source)
  • For him, the similarity between Plato and the Christian doctrine was so apparent that he thought Plato must have had knowl-edge of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Their doctrine was half religion and half philosophy, asserting that the world consisted of a dualism of good and evil, light and darkness, spirit and matter.†   (source)
  • Since the fourteenth century there had been an increasing number of thinkers who warned against blind faith in old authority, be it religious doctrine or the natural philosophy of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • It was thus vitally necessary for the church to step forward with a concise summary of the Christian doctrine, both in order to distance itself from other religions and to prevent schisms within the Christian Church.†   (source)
  • It's only when Spinoza identifies God with nature—or God and creation—that he distances himself a good way from both Descartes and from the Jewish and Christian doctrines.†   (source)
  • According to the Enlightenment philosophers, what religion needed was to be stripped of all the irrational dogmas or doctrines that had got attached to the simple teachings of Jesus during the course of ecclesiastical history.†   (source)
  • It would seem that Johan, of all people, having been drawn out of deception as a member of the Horde, would stand firm on the doctrine of drowning.†   (source)
  • New York is saying to me right now: you, Jean Louise Finch, are not reacting according to our doctrines regarding your kind, therefore you do not exist.†   (source)
  • After Muhammad died in Aisha's arms (according to Sunni doctrine, which is disputed by Shiites), she took on an active and public role, in a way that annoyed many men.†   (source)
  • It was an old doctrine: What did it matter if the United States had two hundred thousand nuclear weapons trained on the rest of the world if their enemies had the right biological weapons?†   (source)
  • I think the basic fault that underlies the problem of stuckness is traditional rationality's insistence upon "objectivity," a doctrine that there is a divided reality of subject and object.†   (source)
  • The American Congress, the country's doctrine of separation of powers, as well as the independence of its judiciary, arouse in me similar sentiments.†   (source)
  • For more than a year they'd followed Ronin's lead on doctrine, as instructed by Justin, but these new challenges would test his leadership.†   (source)
  • There were rumors his successor intended to keep him on in some capacity—blasphemy in a service that regarded regular turnover at the top almost as a matter of religious doctrine—but officially his future was unclear.†   (source)
  • We judge not the man, but his doctrine.†   (source)
  • Times like these tempted her to consider embracing William's doctrine to either take up the sword or flee deep into the desert.†   (source)
  • They supported Chief Buthelezi's desire to retain Zulu power and identity in a new South Africa by preaching to him the doctrine of group rights and federalism.†   (source)
  • Of course, one could pursue it almost anywhere, but clearly the doctrine implied making choices among degrees of poverty.†   (source)
  • According to the doctrine of "objectivity," which is integral with traditional scientific method, what we like or don't like about that screw has nothing to do with our correct thinking.†   (source)
  • As containing the true doctrine of popular infallibility, from which it would be heretical to depart in one single point?†   (source)
  • None, if possible"—was how Prof summed up doctrine for Operation Hard Rock and was way Mike and I carried it out.†   (source)
  • In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided.†   (source)
  • But the bill was drafted in such a broad way that it outlawed all but the mildest protest against the state, deeming it a crime to advocate any doctrine that promoted "political, industrial, social or economic change within the Union by the promotion of disturbance or disorder."†   (source)
  • Happily, comrade lady who took this call recognized that soothe—'em-down doctrine did not apply; she phoned me.†   (source)
  • Since the Council had cast the inquiry, they were not obligated to accept his doctrine, but in time, even it might be incorporated in the Great Romance.†   (source)
  • Then you must have your doctrine wrong.†   (source)
  • Your heart is too full of all the generous and kindly affections for you ever to acquire such a cold and selfish doctrine.†   (source)
  • After that he felt no compulsive identification with intellectuality and could examine anti-intellectual doctrines with sympathy.†   (source)
  • That political parties were an evil that could bring the ruination of republican government was doctrine he, with others, had long accepted and espoused.†   (source)
  • Technical instructions and tactical doctrine orders resulted from every brush with them, spread through the Fleet.†   (source)
  • Alert Four was emergency communication doctrine, intended to slap censorship on news to Terra without arousing suspicion.†   (source)
  • William, explain your doctrine.†   (source)
  • Thomas had heard the rumors that Ciphus might press Justin into a debate and, if necessary, a physical contest for his defiance of the Council's prevailing doctrine.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of issues that could have consumed them in heavy discussion, but Mikil was right: something else was in the air, and it made matters of doctrine and strategy seem insignificant by comparison.†   (source)
  • I was tempted to go higher but I remembered what Migliaccio had said about not trying for a medal, and stuck to doctrine.†   (source)
  • Some wondered why an inquiry was even necessary-the doctrines of Justin weren't so different from any they had followed all these years.†   (source)
  • The doctrine of human equality is founded entirely in the Christian doctrine that we are all children of the same Father, all accountable to Him for our conduct to one another, all equally bound to respect each other's self love.†   (source)
  • She wondered whether people accepted the doctrine of sacrifice provided its recipients did not identify the nature of their own claims and actions.†   (source)
  • Jefferson had earlier sent Adams a "Syllabus" he had prepared on the merit of the doctrines of Jesus, and a discussion of religion had since filled much of their correspondence.†   (source)
  • But the doctrine ...†   (source)
  • Doctrine required me to locate exactly, by radar beacon, my own men who could be affected by the blast.†   (source)
  • His hatred of his own desire had made him accept the doctrine that women were pure and that a pure woman was one incapable of physical pleasure.†   (source)
  • In the National Gazette, Freneau warned that "plain American republicans" stood to "be overwhelmed by those monarchical writers on Davila, etc.," who were spreading "their poisoned doctrines throughout this blessed continent."†   (source)
  • You know the doctrine and the standing orders about article nine-oh-eight-oh — you must never give them a chance to violate it.†   (source)
  • I rebelled against the doctrine that my productive ability was guilt-but I accepted, as guilt, my capacity for happiness.†   (source)
  • Battle Plan had ordered a new tactical doctrine which I found dismaying: Do not close the Bugs tunnels.†   (source)
  • Hence, the annual-election doctrine became a barrier against the gradual changes of an unlimited government.†   (source)
  • Per M. I. doctrine, I ordered the pickup, felt rather cocky that I had managed to get the order out before my number two cut out to do it anyhow, turned to do the next thing I had to do, which was to lay down a simulated atomic ruckus to discourage the simulated enemy overtaking us.†   (source)
  • She experienced an emotion of chastity that made her shrink, not from the desires of her body, but from any contact with the minds who held this doctrine.†   (source)
  • But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others.†   (source)
  • Now some people are questioning whether it is valid, which has led to the outrageous doctrine of legislative repeal—since it was ratified by the State, the State can repeal it.†   (source)
  • There are doctrines for how you should dispose a strike force underground — but what good are they?†   (source)
  • This is an example of the many handles that would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights.†   (source)
  • The only certainty was that the man who had written the doctrines had never himself tried them ....because, before Operation Royalty, nobody had come back up to tell what had worked and what had not.†   (source)
  • A doctrine that gives you, as an ideal, the role of a sacrificial animal seeking slaughter on the altars of others, is giving you death as your standard.†   (source)
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