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  • Doctrinaire economic libertarians who are much more influential in developed than in developing countries, Spence reminds us, tend to confuse means and ends.

    Glenn C. Altschuler: The Public Option Glenn C. Altschuler 2011

  • Doctrinaire economic libertarians who are much more influential in developed than in developing countries, Spence reminds us, tend to confuse means and ends.

    Glenn C. Altschuler: The Public Option Glenn C. Altschuler 2011

  • Doctrinaire Wahhabis were given well-paid positions as high-ranking functionaries.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The most memorable characters are the evil Collective Doctrinaire named Shrad, who is power-drunk and evil to the bone; the Owner, an unassuming human with mind-boggling but largely unexplained powers; and the Grazen alien mother, a hapless victim to man's atrocities.

    REVIEW: Galactic Empires edited by Gardner Dozois 2008

  • Doctrinaire Wahhabis were given well-paid positions as high-ranking functionaries.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • Doctrinaire statehood activists have been arguing all along that Norton and Davis were selling us down the river.

    What next for D.C. voting rights? Don't say 'only statehood' 2010

  • He depicted the passion of Christ; "Bad Doctors," in which a merry band of physicians disembowel a patient; "Doctrinaire Nourishment," in which noblemen and clergy defecate on a willing populace; and Death, scythe in hand, pursuing the human flock.

    The Uncommitted Fantasist 2009

  • Doctrinaire stage; or had passed, in other words, from the concrete to the abstract.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Doctrinaire socialism carries the day far less than pragmatism, an important change in tone and policy that makes this political moment decidedly new.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • Doctrinaire socialism carries the day far less than pragmatism, an important change in tone and policy that makes this political moment decidedly new.

    La Profesora Abstraida 2005

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