Example sentences for: doctrine

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

  • A 1996 opinion in which he felt forced to apply an antitrust doctrine he disliked includes the snide observation: "[i]f this is what the [Supreme] Court believes--and it does appear to be the Court's current position, though not one that is easy to defend in terms of economic theory or antitrust policy ..."

  • In that way, "with liberty and justice for all" can be a way of life as well as a doctrine.

  • On the LAT opinion page, Brookings Fellow Shibley Telhami presses the White House to announce a Clinton Doctrine asserting that the U.S. has "vital strategic" interests in Middle East peace.

  • In his raucous, vaudevillian allegory Dogma , Kevin Smith concocts a scenario in which the will of God comes apocalyptically into conflict with Catholic doctrine.

  • The NYT and the WP front (and the LAT reefers) Russia's publication of a new national security doctrine.


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