How to Use doctrine in a Sentence

doctrine

noun

• The government was founded on a doctrine of equality for all people.
• Many psychologists now question the doctrines of Sigmund Freud.
• Father Beto is in line with mainstream Catholic doctrine.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022
• Our doctrine, our virtue, is built into our Constitution.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2022
• Right now, Oregon is the only state without an impeachment doctrine.
  — Meira Gebel, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
• Under that doctrine, the party who first makes use of water for a beneficial purpose, such as irrigating fields, acquires senior water rights.
  — AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• Tension between church leaders who wish to preserve rigid doctrine and parishioners who want a more open dialogue has been playing out in the largely liberal Bay Area.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 July 2022
• Traditionalists said their problem wasn't with the Book of Discipline or with church doctrine, but with church leaders who have ignored the rules that are currently in place.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 1 Aug. 2022
• The board is also arguing that it is shielded from the lawsuit by the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which protects the government from being sued without its consent.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
• Yet a change to its nuclear doctrine is unlikely to resolve the Islamic Republic’s strategic dilemmas.
  — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
• Cyberwarfare doctrine must be consistent with each country's national values and strategy.
  — John Giordani, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Instead, her mindset is a hate that has been passed down from the pulpit, by church leaders who endorse a doctrine that is caging people’s souls, ruining their ability to love and placing them in an entanglement of self-hate.
  — Clay Cane, CNN, 21 July 2022
• Tao has a lot of meanings, among them, the way, or path, or doctrine, the road.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• But having boots on the ground in far-flung parts of the world does not jibe with the Trump doctrine.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2020
• A change in the rules of engagement does not have to be a change in doctrine.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 July 2017
• In this case, the court raised this thing called the major questions doctrine.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• And that’s the other part of this that has me shook(eth). Latter-day Saint doctrine didn’t change a bit.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• Not a court in the service of a party, or even a legal doctrine.
  — Keith C. Burris Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (tns), Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• But the fighting-words doctrine has fallen out of favor with the courts.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 May 2016
• But one of those rules, a doctrine of the fair for more than four decades, now faces a legal challenge.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
• Catholic doctrine held that both faith and good works would gain God’s favor.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The debate will grow in the months ahead, as the doctrine committee moves forward.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2021
• The question is: What is doctrine and what is practice?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2020
• In his talk, Francis also laid out his idea that church doctrine can and should change with the times.
  — Delia Gallagher, CNN, 12 Oct. 2017
• Of course, that’s not to say there aren’t challenges to following such a doctrine.
  — Chris Martin, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• But, of course, Biden is trying to offer the country a doctrine rather than a jingle.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• Carolyn had already made this part of her fashion doctrine, but Lee put the seal on it.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• But there are questions about how much support that doctrine still has.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• Brown sees a link between the abuse and the doctrine that women should submit to male leadership.
  — David Crary, ajc, 24 Mar. 2021
• But the doctrine has run headlong into shifts in policing.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024