(n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the activists at Credo put it : It's a betrayal of the commitments that so many of us worked so hard for, and that Dunn herself played a huge role in shaping as top strategist on the 2008 campaign and communications director in the White House.
(2) Only you can decide whether this noble credo will be replaced by an opportunistic use of legal loopholes.
(3) This may sound tangential, but I'm rather reminded of a passage from a Tony Blair conference speech that both set out New Labour's credo, and captured its essential pathology.
(4) This essay deals with the current credo of scholastic medicine, the definition of alternative health care and with the methods of phytotherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture.
(5) The most recent study from the Stanford Centre for Research on Education Outcomes (Credo) meticulously details the impact of US free schools, known as charter schools, on young people's achievement.
(6) In an important article in the Times last week that was factually incorrect, philosophically incoherent and economically bonkers, David Cameron set out the Tory credo.
(7) Last week, Aleksey Pushkov, the head of the Duma’s foreign affairs committee, tweeted : “Clinton’s credo is to strengthen US alliances against Russia; Trump’s credo is only to respond to real threats.
(8) Rather than experiencing a rush of euphoria at liberation from a restrictive credo, they speak of their sadness as, one by one, the illuminations on their once cherished pillars are extinguished.
(9) The Conservatives want this because it is part of their simple shrink-the-state credo.
(10) And with its credo to keep the state small and its belief in the power of the individual, it is – certainly for Berlin – a reliable counterweight to the French.” Despite all the warm words Merkel and Cameron will say about each other following their lunchtime encounter, the Rhein Zeitung from Koblenz warns Cameron in an editorial that he is going to be “taught a lesson” in Berlin.
(11) Nearly 80,000 people have signed up to commit civil disobedience to stop approval of the pipeline, said Elijah Zarlin, senior campaign manager at Credo.
(12) It is a belief that is fundamental to my political and social credo and one that I assume is shared, give or take the odd nuance, by the SNP government.
(13) Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” Trump said, during his nomination acceptance speech in Ohio on Thursday.
(14) The key to all this is what Blond calls Red Toryism, a critique-cum-credo that harks back to the old paternalist Conservatism that was all but obliterated by Margaret Thatcher, but is also aimed at providing an answer to an array of very modern problems.
(15) Iffa Credo SHR-SP male rats aged 11 weeks were divided into 4 groups.
(16) However what seems to have been lost in the political fray – sadly, in both hemispheres now – is the credo of a civil society that enshrines that seeking asylum is not illegal.
(17) The inquiry comes on the heels of Operation Credo, during which the NSW premier, Barry O'Farrell, resigned.
(18) And if the trend contradicts the nation’s founding credo it nonetheless confirms its current trajectory in which stagnant wages, increasing college tuition fees and growing inequality is leading many Americans to doubt the nation’s meritocratic credentials.
(19) I take it as a starting point,” Cross said, “that it is not the duty of the government to provide any class of citizens with any of the necessaries of life.” Could it be that this soundbite survives because it is the sort of thing modern leftwingers expect a Conservative to say, based on recent experience, and the kind of credo modern rightwingers like to imagine their predecessors holding, rather than because it actually reflects what Cross was up to?
(20) If you want a flavour of where the credo of choice and competition could take things, consider the example of Circle Healthcare: recently given a £1bn contract to run a hospital in Cambridgeshire, reportedly aiming at acquiring three more, backed by hedge funds, and commanded by an ex-Goldman Sachs banker called Ali Parsa ("Mr Parsa's mission is to provide clinical services to the NHS – while turning a profit," says the Economist ).
Dogma
Definition:
(n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
(n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
(n.) A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(2) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(3) Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
(4) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(5) Whatever the dogma, opposition to it is not just wrong, it is immoral.
(6) The results challenge dogma regarding the natural history of exacerbation rates and the assumption that we can reliably assign patients to a specific disease type.
(7) Nick Clegg's office sent out private briefings to Liberal Democrat MPs on Monday urging them to condemn Theresa May's plans to pull out of all EU judicial co-operation as an example of Eurosceptic Tory dogma being put before the need to keep UK families safe from criminals.
(8) There is nothing he said which could be understood as an incitement to violence, and nothing which is not obviously true, and commonplace outside the squalid little dogma that suffocates the human spirit in Saudi.
(9) The unquestioning citation of a dogma of the Ancients until modern times is a common phenomenon in medical history.
(10) He went on to make a series of well-received comedies set in his New Jersey "View Askewniverse" (Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back) before 2004's ill-fated Jersey Girl raised eyebrows by casting Jennifer Lopez.
(11) For children the world is still a flexible, plastic construct, and then the dogma and sense of adulthood drains in.
(12) Some original data are included, but for the most part a critical analysis is presented of such information as is available and the dogma which has become established in this difficult area of research.
(13) He has plans to change the way social workers are trained (they are too hamstrung by "dogma", too reluctant to take at-risk kids into care).
(14) This is simply about dogma from old-fashioned Tories wedded to privatisation.
(15) The dogma that keeps people heartlessly alive is not religious but entirely secular: it is the fear of lawyers and not the fear of God which runs health policy today.
(16) We can disagree about whether the EU has been a socialist or capitalist influence – too much red tape or too much free market dogma, too much statist meddling or too much restriction on government deficits – but it is undeniable that it wields that influence without asking the people.
(17) In comments to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Parolin – who is the outgoing nuncio, or papal ambassador, to the Latin American country – said that as celibacy was a "church tradition" as opposed to dogma, it could be legitimately discussed.
(18) I said, ‘I want to make sure you had it right that you resigned in my office’, and he said, ‘Absolutely.’” Patterson also denied that Eastside is being unfairly selective in its application of Catholic dogma by allowing divorced people and those living together out of wedlock to continue working at the school.
(19) All of the most cherished human dogmas - deemed so true and undeniable that dissent should be barred by the force of law - have been subsequently debunked, or at least discredited.
(20) Neoliberal dogma says that the private sector manages things more efficiently – often by using its magic powers of ruthlessness and cynicism.