Usage of "doctrine" | TermGallery

Portuguese

doutrina

Catalan

escola de pensament

Spanish

doctrina

A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.

doutrina

Synonyms

Examples for "philosophy"

Natural philosophy, like war and romance, is best done by young men. 
 Quicksilver 

It's my philosophy to power downto put direct responsibility on my subordinates. 
 The President's Assassin 

A new philosophy always takes time, but it also depends on us. 
 The Guardian 

The Venus of Epicurean philosophy survived in the Virgin of the Schools:- 
 The Education of Henry Adams 

New teacher-training programmes have sprung up to encourage philosophy at primary level. 
 The Irish Times 

In extreme cases of guru-ism individuals' value systems are completely wiped out. 
 Underground 

Land-banking and Not-In-My-Back-Yard-ism over higher density housing were obstructions to potential solutions. 
 Radio NZ 

And then he offered them perhaps their last Bertie-ism of his term. 
 The Irish Times 

The definition of an ism, you know is prejudice plus power. 
 The new yorker 

All had moved from pluralism to strict adaptation-ism-andalong a remarkably similar path. 
 The Structure of Evolutionary Theory 

Was then the Deistical line of argument derived from his philosophical system? 
 The English Church in the Eighteenth Century 

A mob of farm boys can't eradicate a major philosophical system. 
 Cities in Flight 

He wants the firm basis of a philosophy or of a philosophical system. 
 The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V... 

Pliny has, further, the great advantage of being shut up in no philosophical system. 
 Latin Literature 

Pythagoras made numbers the basis of his philosophical system, as well physical as metaphysical. 
 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section P and Q 

However, Tim Paine perhaps won't be subscribing to that school of thought. 
 The South African 

Why is this school of thought especially popular on the libertarian right? 
 The Guardian 

So how can a single school of thought follow such different paths? 
 Radio NZ 

He leaned more toward the second school of thought, which was that- 
 Cauldron of Ghosts 

We might call it the Colorado Barbecue and Floor-Bucket school of thought. 
 Misery 

Usage of doctrine in English

OBAMA: I actually think that the state secret doctrine should be modified. 
 Wired 

The doctrine of expansionary austerity quickly became orthodoxy in much of Europe. 
 The Guardian 

Critics have said the doctrine too often lets police brutality go unpunished. 
 Reuters 

We do not know Pyongyang's nuclear doctrine or employment concepts, said Clapper. 
 The Guardian 

This is not theory; it is not doctrine; it is not opinion. 
 The Conquest of Fear 

Church doctrine is opposed to contraception as a means of birth control. 
 Reuters 

That is the doctrine of the social order in the Lord's Prayer. 
 Mornings in the College Chapel / Short Addresses to Young Men on... 

Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another 
 The Federalist Papers 

Such a legal basis is available, under the doctrine of humanitarian intervention. 
 The Guardian 

This is not only the German doctrine; it is the German practice. 
 England and the War 

Let us state the first part of the doctrine in this way: 
 Writing for Vaudeville 

Different surgical procedures were performed in accordance with the surgical war doctrine. 
 Pubmed 

For this reason, I follow an unusual doctrine when working a project. 
 Climbing Magazine 

In the Athanasian Creed we find the following statement of this doctrine:- 
 Exposition of the Apostles' Creed 

Personal religious experience is not necessarily the same as organized religious doctrine. 
 Feminist dot com 

The moral implications of Christian doctrine motivated the resistance of the Churches. 
 The Grey Book / A collection of protests against anti-semitism a... 