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She argues that the action is protected under the separation-of-powers doctrine that is fundamental to the US Constitution.doctrine = principle
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The Monroe Doctrine helped to limit European influence in South America.doctrine = an authoritative principle
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She challenges accepted doctrine.doctrine = beliefs and principles
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While filming Groundhog Day, he said that according to Buddhist doctrine, it takes 10,000 years for a soul to evolve to its next level.doctrine = a system of beliefs accepted as authoritative by some group
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She was an early critic of the separate-but-equal doctrine.doctrine = principle
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"Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent. (source)doctrine = system of beliefs and principles
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This was the doctrine according to Winifred, and — to be fair — to lots of other people as well. (source)doctrine = authoritative principle
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Down with all reactionary doctrines! (source)doctrines = beliefs and principles
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And as most teenagers do, I had so many questions about my faith—whether it was compatible with modern science, for instance, or whether this or that denomination was correct on particular doctrinal disputes. (source)doctrinal = related to beliefs
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Tess, who mused on the christening a good deal, wondered if it were doctrinally sufficient to secure a Christian burial for the child.† (source)
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I examined polygamy, not as a doctrine but as a social policy. (source)doctrine = authoritative principle
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I went back to law school with an intense desire to understand the laws and doctrines that sanctioned the death penalty and extreme punishments. (source)doctrines = principles
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woman in mobcap and commodious dark dress, a figure lifted out of her time into the abstract arrangements of the twentieth century, long before she was ready, it seemed, but Klara also liked looking right through the tonal components, the high theory of color, the theory of paint itself, perhaps—looking into the depths of the picture, 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)
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He was doctrinally convinced that there was a total absence of merit in himself; but that doctrinal conviction may be held without pain when the sense of demerit does not take a distinct shape in memory and revive the tingling of shame or the pang of remorse.† (source)
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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
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I was not baptized a Catholic, but it suits me, its beliefs and doctrines sit easily with me.† (source)
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