orthodoxy
Example Sentences
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The First Amendment, he concludes, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech.”
“But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
From Salon
Both countries poured billions of dollars into propagating their respective versions of Islamic orthodoxy around the world.
What they found upended decades of economic orthodoxy: After New Jersey’s minimum wage rose, fast-food employment actually increased relative to levels seen in Pennsylvania.
The law is “a legal capstone meant to send a signal throughout the system” about the new orthodoxy on ethnic policy, said James Leibold, a professor at Australia’s La Trobe University.
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