DOCTRINE


Meaning of DOCTRINE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

catholic

But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state.

And this, the archdiocese believes, is sometimes done at the expense of Catholic doctrine .

He surrendered all he had fought for, accepting even the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the existence of Purgatory.

Though a statement of Catholic doctrine , it has received widespread acceptance.

legal

As the nature of insider dealing changed, there was a corresponding need to adapt other legal doctrines to fit the abuse.

For one, legal training is great for teaching lawyers how to rip apart facts and legal doctrines analytically.

No neat distinction between legal doctrine and political principle can be sustained at this level of adjudication.

There are many examples of an incongruence between legal doctrine and commercial activity.

In this sense, the legal doctrine of sovereignty is the most fundamental of our constitutional conventions.

Karl Llewellyn spent a great part of his life seeking to reconcile legal doctrine and commercial activity.

And they are unlikely to, because of their unfamiliarity with legal doctrine .

new

Many of the old cases could indeed be subsumed within the new doctrine , but it does not cover them all.

On the one hand, we labored to perfect a new tactical doctrine for a sea engagement against the enemy carrier force.

The Caspian basin, which is rich in oil and gas reserves, is central to his new foreign policy doctrine .

A clear, authoritative statement of the new doctrine evolving is yet to be announced.

I am sure that the House will have noted the hon. Gentleman's invention of a new doctrine - cost-free pay.

The railway industry had a propaganda purpose in the streamlining of outlines and in the new doctrine of modernism in these years.

political

Its prestige also had a basis, as a political doctrine , in the liberal idea of self-determination.

For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.

Nature conservation runs against the grain of current political doctrine .

religious

His misgivings about religious doctrines extend even to his own, and he is quick to put it into perspective.

The evidence suggests, then, that the direct influence of religious doctrine on individual reproductive decisions is weak.

Here, they drew on Hegel's account of religious doctrines and institutions as symbolic objectifications of that spirit.

In addition to providing presuppositions for science, religious doctrines have also offered sanction or justification.

traditional

Such is what the traditional doctrines of divine omnipotence, preservation and providence are really saying.

But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state.

The dissenting judgment of Geoffrey Lane L.J., which had applied the traditional collateral fact doctrine , was approved.

■ NOUN

church

Galileo's view contradicted Church doctrine of the time that the earth was in a fixed position.

law

Yet company law doctrine has failed to acknowledge this.

Within company law doctrine this idea has no real impact.

trade

The restraint of trade doctrine is relevant to both types of provision.

The House of Lords applied the restraint of trade doctrine .

The Court of Appeal applied the restraint of trade doctrine and found that the agreement was reasonable.

■ VERB

accept

Tolkien, in his history of the elves, would not wish to go against what he accepted as doctrine universally true.

He surrendered all he had fought for, accepting even the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the existence of Purgatory.

based

An official orthodoxy based on Neo-Confucian doctrines emphasized the preservation of order and maintenance of social hierarchy.

If Rawls' theory is based on a doctrine of neutrality it is a doctrine of comprehensive neutrality.

Many of those who constitute it would adhere to a world-renouncing ethnic based on a doctrine of separation from the world.

develop

We will only succeed if we start to develop a doctrine of international community based on the principle of enlightened self-interest.

establish

Can we establish a constitutional doctrine which forbids the elected representatives of the people to make this choice?

preach

In the first place, it was quite useless to preach ready made doctrine to them.

He later preached good doctrine and set the colonists to building a church.

They preached the pure doctrine and pure life that Puritans had cherished ever since they formed under Elizabeth and chafed under James.

It preaches the doctrine that individuals should be allowed to do anything they wish unfettered by social conventions.

teach

Why not teach our children some doctrine ?

He said that at the recent mission in Cambridge Billy Graham had taught the grossest doctrines .

But in the schools the children are taught a doctrine of hate.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Hindu doctrine of the immortality of the soul

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the nature of insider dealing changed, there was a corresponding need to adapt other legal doctrines to fit the abuse.

But in the schools the children are taught a doctrine of hate.

Even ethnically united communities are deeply divided on points of doctrine .

Groups were continually dividing over minor points of doctrine .

He later preached good doctrine and set the colonists to building a church.

I consider that such doctrine would be dangerous and impermissible.

It is taken for doctrine , but can it be that it really is dogma?

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.