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Recent Examples of doctrinal
But that debate and the SBC’s doctrinal statement, called the Baptist Faith & Message 2000, has calmed since June.
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Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Sep. 2024
Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images file Intimidation has long been a favored tool of the Kremlin in its attempts to shape Western policy, and the Kremlin's doctrinal changes were once again backed by grave threats from some of its leading public advocates.
—David Hodari, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
The doctrinal statement is nonbinding, and the denomination can’t tell its independent churches whom to call as pastor.
—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
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Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Sep. 2024
Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images file Intimidation has long been a favored tool of the Kremlin in its attempts to shape Western policy, and the Kremlin's doctrinal changes were once again backed by grave threats from some of its leading public advocates.
—David Hodari, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
The doctrinal statement is nonbinding, and the denomination can’t tell its independent churches whom to call as pastor.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctrinal
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From a tense two-hander and a teen heist movie to a NSFW alien tale and a philosophical road trip from Hell, these titles played well on the big screen and deserve releases to serve the masses.—
William Earl,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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Books of advice come in many forms: financial, spiritual, physical, philosophical.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Another crucial component is dogmatic blind devotion to a single over-arching goal by AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The author who writes after great catastrophe frequently assumes the angel’s position: Many historical novels float above history, bearing witness but drawing simple lessons, or casting dogmatic judgment, from the safe vantage of the present.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2025
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The scene is straight out of a stratagem by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bertolucci’s mentor), but Palud takes it literally without applying comparable ideological critique to the rest of her film.—
Armond White,
National Review,
28 Mar. 2025
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The decline comes as Democrats’ ideological wings fight over the best tactics to counter Trump, which, combined with raw political ambition, makes the emerging Democratic 2028 field a wide-open electoral canvass.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Village of Wilmette’s Appearance Review Commission is expected to conduct a conceptual review of the plan at its April 7 meeting, Braiman said.—
Phil Rockrohr,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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That track does not appear on the album, which draws conceptual inspiration from poems contributed by the artist Nadia Marcus.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
26 Mar. 2025
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Legacy power grids, water systems and emergency response networks are no longer theoretical.—
Marty Sprinzen,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Dutch theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent much of the past half-century reshaping our understanding of the fundamental forces that knit together reality.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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