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The reason for the doctrine was the belief that resistance was hopeless, and that God who had the power would in his own time visit on the oppressors the vengeance that the Jews and Christians were too weak to inflict.

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  1. noun A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma.
  2. noun A rule or principle of law, especially when established by precedent.
  3. noun A statement of official government policy, especially in foreign affairs and military strategy.
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  • Therefore, his doctrine was a synthesis of 18th and 19th century modernism - which accounts for his popularity with modernistic intellectuals. —  RenewAmerica
  • As I have stated in numerous commentaries, a return of the doctrine could be an embarrassment to all of the nation's newspapers and TV and radio, which would have to give equal space and time to those protesting the Liberal prejudices frequently found in newspaper articles. —  WhackyNation
  • This doctrine is the fallback position for Keynesians. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Exceptionalism does not permit such plumbing of the past, of course: part and parcel of the doctrine is the subjugation of history to power, and the engineering of myths that we come to regard as our common past. —  Freezerbox Magazine
  • "In what respect?" she asked, and then added the doctrine was the Bush "worldview." —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrīna, from doctor, teacher; see doctor.

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  1. from Middle English doctrine, from Old French doctrine, French doctrine = Provencal Spanish doctrina = Portuguese doutrina = Italian dottrina = German doctrin = Danish Swedish doktrin, from Latin doctrina, teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge, from doctor, a teacher, from docere, teach: see doctor.
 

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