doctrine
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That doctrine applies when you have relied on a promise and were worse off because you spent money or gave up time or opportunities, or relied on that promise to the detriment of your finances.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
The second exception to the doctrine would apply if the US government had violated an extradition agreement which was the only way a suspect could be transferred between the two countries.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In New York this week, Iranian officials said Tehran’s nuclear doctrine remains unaltered for now but warned that could change, according to people present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
I want to follow up on what you said about standing doctrine and the environmental cases.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Except where it touched upon her own life she had no interest in Party doctrine.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Circuit was the one that was really making tons of law around these areas, tons of doctrines and administrative law to guide the agencies without blocking them.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Smithian doctrines of 1776 live mainly today between the covers of dusty books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
New war-fighting doctrines emphasized disrupting Soviet supply lines over fighting a defensive war of attrition with the more numerous Soviet army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Florian Galleri, a historian specialising in contemporary military studies and nuclear doctrines, also warned that Macron would have to tread carefully, pointing to his low approval ratings one year before the end of his presidency.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Periodicals devoted to the subject appeared, and references to its doctrines pervaded popular literature.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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