(n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(2) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(3) The history of the reception of Darwin's doctrine shows that, as a rule, older scientists with such religious worldviews would not support Darwin.
(4) But it was predictably a thin reed on which to build a doctrine.
(5) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(6) Our commitment to liberty is America's tradition - declared at our founding; affirmed in Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms; asserted in the Truman Doctrine and in Ronald Reagan's challenge to an evil empire.
(7) She suggests that the doctrine of 'bad faith breach of contract' might appropriately be extended into this new area to provide a powerful means by which aggrieved patients and payers can hold physicians personally accountable for abusive self-referrals.
(8) Changes in the evaluation protocol could preclude existing impediments to provision of information and patient autonomy; however, certain intrapsychic issues must be recognized as ongoing clinical realities to be addressed as the doctrine of informed consent continues to evolve.
(9) Official military doctrine in many countries is that these laws apply to cyberspace as they do to all other domains of warfare.
(10) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
(11) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(12) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
(13) This is accomplished by using the doctrine to enhance patients' education and understanding of their orthodontic problems, the benefits of corrective therapy, any risks associated therewith, and viable treatment alternatives.
(14) In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, Mr Grieve has clutched at a fragile constitutional doctrine and adopted a deeply dubious legal course.
(15) Chaffetz’s proposal might in fact be in violation of the common-law Public Trust Doctrine , which requires that the federal government keep and manage national resources for all Americans.
(16) In the US, the concept of the mature minor doctrine has been developed.
(17) This article also addresses recent developments in the wake of the Benzene Case and their implications for benzene regulations following the "significant risk" doctrine in that case.
(18) Aftergood said the Glomar doctrine was no longer appropriate.
(19) We talked mostly about Nation of Islam doctrine, with some questions about the military draft, Folley, and boxing in general thrown in.
(20) This standard of proof and some of its contingent common law doctrines are discussed, with references to several judicial opinions from cases which involved contested suicides.
Ism
Definition:
(n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhancer sequences analysed using the informational spectrum method (ISM) show a characteristic frequency at .0488.
(2) Today, Britain is broke and broken, everyone's on the scam and excessive right on-ism is forcing ordinary Britons into retreat.
(3) "The ISM noted that some of the recent strength is due to the effects of the accelerated investment depreciation tax allowance, which expired at the end of last year.
(4) A single application of ouabain (10 microM) to CA3 by local pressure ejection caused a slow rise in local [K+]o measured with K-ISMs.
(5) In conclusion, a single oral dose of 60 mg of sustained-release ISM-R seems to be an effective drug in the treatment of effort angina, its effectiveness lasting more than 10 hours without side effects.
(6) A retrospective autopsy study of 627 patients with systemic cancer disclosed 153 patients with metastasis to the central nervous system (CNS) and 13 patients with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM).
(7) The purpose of these studies was to examine metastatic potentials of a human colon tumor xenograft (T6) and three different human tumor cell lines (LS174T, HT29 and A549) using the intrasplenic-nude mouse model system (ISMS model system).
(8) Both the ISM and Markit found that factory growth picked up last month.
(9) Of 104 patients, 10 developed ISM, with a 1-year actuarial risk of 25%.
(10) The case described suggests that this method of radiologic investigation can provide a prompt identification of ISM from other noncompressive complications of systemic cancers.
(11) One system that has proven to be very amenable for the study of PCD is the intersegmental muscle (ISM) of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
(12) This paper reports a study of the recall and precision of the source selection elements in the prototype version of the ISM.
(13) Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM) is an unusual cause of myelopathy, in comparison to the common problem of extramedullary metastasis.
(14) In the superfusate at 20 microns above the inner limiting membrane (ILM), current-evoked delta[K+] was a function of current polarity and strength; its amplitude decreased as the K-ISM was moved higher above the ILM.
(15) The Irish term for this is 'mé féin-ism', or 'myself-ism', a play on Sinn Féin, or 'we ourselves'.
(16) This is very important for radiation treatment which can be effective in the early stages of ISM.
(17) One of the upregulated presumptive cell-death genes encodes polyubiquitin, which appears to play a critical role in the rapid proteolysis that accompanies ISM death.
(18) Dietrologia” – which translates, roughly, to “behind-ism” – refers to the belief that the official explanation for any set of events is almost invariably the wrong one.
(19) This ISM-based technique also may be useful in measuring K+ turnover in other cell types.
(20) When patients with ISM are diagnosed premorbidly, they usually have a previously known or concurrently diagnosable primary neoplasm.