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These discussions are not doctrinaire, but their general inclination is to favor state intervention, on political grounds, in each of those areas--that is, to favor restrictions on campaign spending, greater regulation of pornography, and so on.
In both the House and the Senate, he has remained firm in his doctrinaire opposition to any kind of meaningful campaign-finance reform.
A profile accuses Christopher Edley--the president's premier policy adviser, operative, and ghostwriter on race--of being doctrinaire and intolerant of dissent.
Bin Laden first formulated his doctrinaire philosophy of jihad at a religious Saudi university, refined it among American-backed Islamic rebels in Afghanistan in the '80s, and used an international, Sudan-based terrorist network to launch it in the '90s.
In a field intent on claiming objective, "scientific" status, he didn't hesitate to admit that doctrinaire ideas shifted, conflicted, and could be disorienting.