Sentences with phrase «doctrine which»

The Court first stated that it was irrelevant that no property was actually taken by the District; instead, there is judicial doctrine which states that the government may not deny a benefit when a person exercises his / her individual rights.

«Piercing the corporate veil» is a legal doctrine which removes the «corporate shield» and makes an individual personally liable for the corporation's debts.

Standing is a judicially - created doctrine which requires that an actual «controversy» exist between the parties involved in the lawsuit.

«Ripeness» is a judicially - created doctrine which prevents courts from ruling on hypothetical or abstract questions; instead, this doctrine requires that courts only decide matters which are in actual controversy.

While there is a doctrine which holds there is no fraud when a party should have known the alleged misrepresentation wasn't true, the court found that this only applies if the party either received the information correcting the misrepresentation and ignored it or had some other indication that to not trust the statement.

When I think of preaching, what comes to mind is one who espouses religious doctrine which has been accepted by the preacher as gospel truth.

[43] In Mabo v Queensland (No 2), in holding that an unjust and discriminatory doctrine which refused to recognise the rights and interests in land of the indigenous inhabitants could have no place in the contemporary law of this country, Brennan J confirmed that the expectations of the international community in this regard accord with the contemporary values of the Australian people.

A Latin phrase meaning «let the superior answer,» respondeat superior is the legal doctrine which holds an employer, officer, manager, supervisor or other «superior» individual or group to an employee or subordinate legally liable for the acts of the employee or subordinate.

It was these values that led him, as a newly - appointed judge in the 1940s, to devise a legal doctrine which lawyers regarded as revolutionary, but which performed the elementary moral task of holding people to their promises - something which the commercially - oriented common law had found it expedient not to do.

The result is the fashioning of a doctrine which appears designed to obtain reversal of this judgment, but at the same time to save harmless from the effects of that doctrine the many prior cases of this Court which are inconsistent with it.

The Court, however, held that South Carolina also follows the exception to the waiver doctrine which prohibits consideration of evidence presented by a jointly tried co-defendant when reviewing the trial court's denial of the directed verdict motion.

That article codifies the ECJ's case - law on implied exclusive treaty - making powers, and in particular the AETR doctrine which establishes such competence if the conclusion of the agreement in question «may affect common rules or alter their scope».

I have previously discussed the «agony of collision» doctrine which can shield a motorist from liability following a collision if they are faced with a sudden and unexpected hazard not of their making.

The first is a common law doctrine regarding the appropriate roles for civil courts called upon to adjudicate church property disputes — a doctrine which found general application in federal courts prior to Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U. S. 64 (1938), but which has never had any application to our review of a state court

In the opinion, not of bad men, but of the best men, no belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful: and can you prevent such men from urging that plea, when they are charged with culpability for denying some doctrine which they are told is useful, but which they believe to be false?

(By the way, we have the Monroe Doctrine which let us invade a bunch of Central American and Caribbean counties over the years... did we expect that Russia wouldn't follow the same kind of logic?

This is supposedly based on standard «self defense» war doctrine which is recognized by United Nations, although specific legal issues are subject to much debating and frequently are more a matter of opinion than law.

And even the Treasury is now hypothecating taxes - a breach of HMT doctrine which has former mandarins spluttering.

At present, the NTC appears to be operating under a mistaken «security and legitimacy - first» doctrine which maintains that bold initiatives can not be undertaken until further stability is achieved and an elected government takes office after the June elections.

4) without prejudice to the generality of 3) any doctrine which displays or is likely to encourage any form of discrimination against girls and women or against gay people, and any form of encouragement to gay people of any age to suppress or amend their sexuality;

They are regarded as important instrumentalities, through which the peculiarities of doctrine which distinguish their founders are to be maintained, propagated, or defended.107

Nevertheless general surveys suggest that after Trent theologians began to lose interest in that part of St Thomas» doctrine which concerned the sacrifice of the Mass, partly because it was thought to offer little help against Protestant controversialists.

17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

The extraordinary phenomenon of the sustained birth of modern science in Western culture, however, is linked with meticulous investigation to the cultural influence of monotheism and the Christian doctrine of creation exnihilo - a doctrine which both upheld the contingent, linear development of creation and its rationality through the existence of the physical laws of nature, or «secondary causes», without thereby undermining God's omnipotence.

Our Pope is simply following Christ's actions, which should have been what we endeared, not the powerful white man's dominating doctrine which was meant to control and manipulate.

It was a matter of doctrine which had roused the query, what might today be called ideology.

In general it was met with reserve because a doctrine which recognizes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet after Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was regarded as being contrary to Islam.

Such incoherence is really unnecessary, Sherburne contends, for «all our knowledge of the past is quite explicable in terms of a doctrine which limits immediate prehension to contiguous actual occasions» (PPCT 322).

So though RFRA had near unanimous backing in 1993 and restores the Supreme Court's free exercise doctrine which was accepted from the 1963Sherbertdecision authored by Justice William Brennan untilEmployment Division v. Smithin 1990, the applications of that doctrine are now said to be «extreme religious liberty rights.»

We have become tolerant and supportive of a doctrine which is inaccurate at best and theologically dangerous at its worst.

We argue about doctrine which Jesus did not give us, we use it to control and be powerful, that is why people argue and bully.

The development called forth anew as history goes on will often be seen to depend on orthodox and Catholic doctrine which was unpopular at the time, perhaps which went clean contrary to the mood of the times, and the always ready concessions of well - meaning heresy.

And I might add to this, ``... or because they hold to some doctrine which we think is heretical.»

Father M. C. D'Arcy's penetrating study, The Mind and Heart of Love, shows how a contemporary Catholic doctrine which moves within the Augustinian and Thomist traditions discovers the inner tension and unresolved problems in the position.33 The tension here occurs with variations in each of our three types.

Without committing himself to an existentialist doctrine which gives primacy to the will over the intellect, D'Arcy is attracted to this position, for it fits in with his doctrine of the two loves.

It is a doctrine which today needs to be subjected to searching scrutiny.

Here we come upon the doctrine which is known as the doctrine of the preexistence of the Word, or the pre-existence of the Son.

The doctrine which surrounds our walk of faith however is sometimes more complicated and needs some explanation and personal study to be truly understood.

Any doctrine which refuses to place human experience outside nature, must descriptions of human experience factors which also enter into the description specialized natural occurrences.

Nevertheless, some modifications of Whitehead by Hartshorne, even in the area of cosmology, lead to differences of doctrine which seem to be marked advances.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s Faith magazine often protested against these betrayals of Catholic truth and of God's people, all the while calling for and offering the outlines of a development of doctrine which is faithful to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes and the tradition.

Were they, could they be prepared to admit a doctrine which involved the consequence that all the evidences which they had that the apostles preached the truth were delusive, and that all the evidences of the truth of christianity which had affected their minds and won their hearts were false and deceptive?

In discussing the kind of doctrine that ought to be taught to Jesuit students, he wrote in the Constitutions: «The doctrine which they ought to follow in each subject should be that which is safest and most approved, as also the authors who teach it» (no. 358).

Many Catholics and other Christians blamed Jews for Jesus» death for hundreds of years - a doctrine which many Jews believe directly fueled anti-Semitism.

In the second chapter (3 - 10) we have a peculiar doctrine which may have been contained in the same apocalypse.

Whether or not you share my admiration of the orthodox doctrine, we have to recognize that it represents an interpretation of God and Jesus which not only has had the allegiance of the vast majority of Christians in the history of the Church, but which also has a proven track record as a doctrine which can help people to lead faithful lives following the teaching and example of the Christ.

Applied to the description of the Christian life, this means that our standpoint is directly opposed to that neo-orthodox doctrine which stresses the discontinuity of Christian faith with the rest of experience in such a way that it is asserted, for example, by Dr. Daniel T. Jenkins that there is «no kind of continuity between the «old man» and the «new man in Christ.»

Any doctrine which plainly depicts God as being less in these essential characteristics than we are is flawed at best.

Denominations create their own doctrine which makes it flawed.

In that case science must provide answers, but to do this, it must invoke scientism, a philosophical doctrine which asserts arbitrarily that knowledge comes only through the methods of investigation available to the natural sciences.