Doctrine means: A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters. Related words include philosophy or belief. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Doctrine in practice.
Doctrine in a sentence
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Doctrine meaning
- A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
Synonyms of Doctrine
Example sentences (20)
J&J is seeking dismissal of the Tylenol lawsuits on the grounds that the federal preemption doctrine precludes them.
As it happens, this doctrine has come to be identified with the idea of protecting the Constitution itself.
A striking feature of the vote is the widespread rejection of the BJP’s Hindu-chauvinist Hindutva doctrine.
For many Americans, Christianity is more about “heritage” than faith, more about demography than doctrine.
It should hence be enhanced with adequate funding and its potency preserved according to the IAF doctrine.
Any covert operation must adhere to the doctrine of plausible deniability, and could not be allowed to win in every category.
Surely we would be better off if we knew the terms of doctrine and could use them to talk to one another.
As for the new Military Doctrine, it does not provide for a radical revision of provisions of the military policy of the state.
Corporations won’t change voluntarily, MacDonald says, and governments show no desire to “break from this Friedmanite doctrine”.
He must have read more on standing doctrine in the interim, because he’s clearly turned a new leaf.
As a legal doctrine, standing demands that individuals or groups who sue in federal courts are the right ones to bring their cases.
Judge Lewis asked Theriaque how he reconciled the customary use doctrine with the U.S. Supreme Court’s prohibition of property takings.
Of the items included in the “Powell Doctrine,” two are particularly relevant in this instance.
At the heart of the doctrine is the principle of proportional response, which the Kremlin has adapted to modern geopolitical realities.
The Doctrine of Epigenesis and the Doctrine of Preformation were two distinct views of the understanding of heredity.
From the beginning, the Plenary Power Doctrine was used to protect Indians from non-Indians.
Because those things would be precursors for implementing the Biden Doctrine and a possible territorial compromise one day in the West Bank.
China and Russia have studied our forces and doctrine and are fielding countermeasures.
It is important to note that the Heraclitean doctrine of Flux is not the same as the Protagorean doctrine.
Efficient proximate cause A related doctrine is the insurance law doctrine of efficient proximate cause.
Common combinations with doctrine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the doctrine 51×
- doctrine of 47×
- doctrine that 15×
- doctrine and 11×
- nuclear doctrine 11×
- of doctrine 8×
- monroe doctrine 7×
- doctrine is 7×
- legal doctrine 7×
- doctrine which 7×
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