What's the difference between orthodoxy and practice?

Orthodoxy


Definition:

  • (n.) Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
  • (n.) Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
  • (n.) By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
  • (2) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
  • (3) Others, such as Guardian TV critic Charlie Brooker's recent show, even attracted a large teenage audience - who, if industry orthodoxy is to be believed, are more likely to be surfing the internet than watching TV these days.
  • (4) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
  • (5) Only in Wales does something resembling political orthodoxy seem to be holding; but then again, it is not that long since Plaid Cymru was temporarily booting Labour out of some of its post-industrial heartlands.
  • (6) In the early 80s determined efforts were made to “deselect” Labour members of parliament who disagreed with leftwing orthodoxy.
  • (7) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
  • (8) Once you narrow this,” she said, pointing to the boulevard, “you’ll never get it back.” Kurth believed that council planners were trained in today’s orthodoxy and so felt they must change their city.
  • (9) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
  • (10) It's just that when all the options are bad, they would much prefer to go with the orthodoxy that has served business well in the past.
  • (11) It was summed up by Michael Heseltine in his 2013 report on industrial policy: “Unless we make it worthwhile for footloose capital to come here, it won’t.” This orthodoxy has been swallowed by all the main political parties.
  • (12) But political opposition in Germany and IMF orthodoxy in Washington demands that the rescue package comes with strings attached: a tough series of public sector cuts designed to reassure international investors that the government can become creditworthy again.
  • (13) As a result, it has now become the new orthodoxy to say that the 2015 election may well be settled in Scotland, because the SNP’s gains (or lack of them) may decide whether Labour emerges on 7 May as the largest single party in the new parliament.
  • (14) What better symbol of the crankiness of the current protests against economic orthodoxy could David Cameron and Nick Clegg wish for?
  • (15) Vote Leave embroiled in race row over Turkey security threat claims Read more “I think the public are seeing through this and I think that at moments in our history – 1939, 1982 – we have gone against the orthodoxy of the establishment.
  • (16) The free-market orthodoxy of the past three decades not only helped create the crisis we're living through, but gave credibility to policies that have led to slower growth, deeper inequality, greater insecurity and environmental degradation all over the world.
  • (17) The financial crisis has shattered the free-market orthodoxy that drove policy for a generation.
  • (18) The fascinating question for this team though, is how that instinct translates within the modern orthodoxy of Klinsmann's 4-2-3-1.
  • (19) The party's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, tacked between reform and party orthodoxy as he tried to hold the leadership together.
  • (20) But to shape the future we need to understand the past.” One might expect that those words were aimed at Peter Thiel, the Facebook board member who has bucked Silicon Valley political orthodoxy by backing Donald Trump’s xenophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, anti-science, and increasingly dictatorial campaign for president.

Practice


Definition:

  • (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
  • (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.
  • (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
  • (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
  • (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
  • (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
  • (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
  • (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
  • (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
  • (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
  • (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
  • (v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
  • (v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
  • (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
  • (v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
  • (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
  • (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
  • (15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
  • (18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
  • (19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.