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Recent Examples of doctrinal
The doctrinal statement is nonbinding, and the denomination can’t tell its independent churches whom to call as pastor.
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Peter Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
Is, as many in the Russian Church would argue, Orthodoxy merely a collection of national bodies, loosely affiliated by doctrinal ideas?
—Jonathan Gorvett, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2016
In the seventeenth century, the Thirty Years’ War was fueled by doctrinal differences no less than by the struggle for European primacy.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The Court has already laid the doctrinal framework for a decision overturning the 2024 election
So what would a Supreme Court decision overthrowing the 2024 election look like?
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Peter Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
Is, as many in the Russian Church would argue, Orthodoxy merely a collection of national bodies, loosely affiliated by doctrinal ideas?
—Jonathan Gorvett, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2016
In the seventeenth century, the Thirty Years’ War was fueled by doctrinal differences no less than by the struggle for European primacy.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The Court has already laid the doctrinal framework for a decision overturning the 2024 election
So what would a Supreme Court decision overthrowing the 2024 election look like?
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinal
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Jessica Carbone: There have been lots of reasons to go plant-based throughout history—from philosophical and ethical stances to health and environmental concerns.—
Jessica Carbone,
Saveur,
23 Jan. 2025
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Catholic natural law, as articulated by figures such as St. Thomas Aquinas, is a philosophical and theological framework centered on universal moral principles accessible through reason.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
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Anderson has a generous outlook in the kitchen, hesitating to smack any dogmatic labels on her book.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Jan. 2025
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Roberts characterizes Stalin as a dogmatic Marxist, yet Roberts’s own book contains examples of Stalin’s deviations from Marxist teachings.—
Maria Lipman,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Apr. 2022
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Their ideological far-right brethren in Austria may soon form a new government for the first time since World War II.—
Natalia Romik / Madę by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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Other analysts take a more nuanced view, painting the party as a coalition of different broadly right-wing ideological factions.—
Brady Knox,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
26 Jan. 2025
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Should be a conceptual thinker with strategic and problem-solving skills.—
Terina Allen,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Lynch’s film also fulfills the conceptual implications of the director’s own lifelong exploration of his own unconscious, of his own spontaneous and extravagant imaginings.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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The newspaper was referring to Planet Nine, a theoretical planet at the edge of the solar system.—
Ailsa Harvey,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical chemist who used computers to model how complex systems change during chemical reactions, died last month at 94.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2020
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That revelation, coupled with other recent pontifical critiques, have quickly dissolved the notion that the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a symbolic leader of the church’s conservative wing, might lessen the opposition to Francis.—
Stefano Pitrelli,
Washington Post,
18 Jan. 2023
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“Doctrinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctrinal. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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