doctrine
Example Sentences
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They would contradict the Navy’s existing strategic and tactical doctrines, which call for distributed firepower, not the concentration envisioned in a new battleship fleet.
From Los Angeles Times
Such views are spreading widely among economists in China but haven’t become official doctrine, and resistance to strengthening the yuan quickly remains high in Beijing.
Over the past few months, around twenty hearings have been held with Indigenous organizations and those in favor of the time-frame doctrine.
From Barron's
Europe can instead build a credible deterrence-and-defense model that reflects its military forces and doctrine, while remaining interoperable with U.S. forces.
She quotes a passage from Aristotle, a defender of the doctrine of natural slavery, that refers to other, unnamed Greeks who disagreed with this view.
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