Example sentences for: doctrinaire

How can you use “doctrinaire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A profile accuses Christopher Edley--the president's premier policy adviser, operative, and ghostwriter on race--of being doctrinaire and intolerant of dissent.

  • In both the House and the Senate, he has remained firm in his doctrinaire opposition to any kind of meaningful campaign-finance reform.

  • 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 a field intent on claiming objective, "scientific" status, he didn't hesitate to admit that doctrinaire ideas shifted, conflicted, and could be disorienting.

  • 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.


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