Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needn't worry about anti-Semitism and greater-German nationalism, because they're dead. To many people, this statement is dogma. To others, it's pure untruth. Certainly the Germans have shown virtually no manifestations of a dormant Nazism in the past forty years; in fact, they have gone far to dispel Western suspicions...
...elevated to the Politburo only two weeks ago, faced a parliament rapidly awakening to popular calls for more democracy. At an emergency session, delegates to the once ineffectual legislature proposed to remove the constitutional guarantee of a "leading role" for the party, a phrase as basic to Communist dogma as "We the People" is to the U.S. Constitution. On Friday Modrow presented a 28-member Cabinet that included eleven representatives of officially sanctioned minor parties that have begun to wean themselves from Communist domination. Modrow also announced the establishment of "the rule of law," "protection from the law," and "freedom...
Reagan, they said, is not only stupid, but mendacious. His ideas are molded out of right-wing dogma and his facts are usually made up on the spot. Anyone who believes this guy is obviously a dunce, too. Why should we pay attention to anything he says...
Farrar's suit, ludicrous as it is, points out a major fallacy in pro-life dogma. How can Farrar's unborn child have the right to get out of state prison when it is trapped in a biological one? A fetus is by definition imprisoned. It has no freedom of motion or decision-making power. It is part of its mother's body...
WORLD: The dogma of V.I. Lenin slips off its pedestal as perestroika brings revolutionary changes to Soviet politics...