(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.
Null
Definition:
(a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
(n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
(n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
(v. t.) To annul.
(n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
(4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
(5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
(7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
(8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
(9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
(10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
(11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
(12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
(13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
(14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
(15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
(16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
(17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
(18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
(19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
(20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.