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How to use the word dogmatic in a Sentence?

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If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

Günter Bechly

added by Normando
2 years ago

People will vote with their feet, so one of the other things that I also want us to be is very data-driven versus dogmatic in any policy we create. Not just in terms of the opening, but even the next year.

Satya Nadella

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The separation of the roles of chairman and chief executive has been the object of multiple debates for years, is it indispensable? In any case, I do not hold a dogmatic view on the matter.

Emmanuel Faber

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think the overarching goal of getting all eligible people vaccinated has to take precedence, we can’t let an overly dogmatic adherence to priority groups to cause inefficiencies in vaccine administration.

Amesh Adalja

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Energy supply security must be guaranteed, if it is endangered, we should be free to do another round and address that, without abandoning the path we've chosen. There's no reason to be dogmatic about this.

Ralph Brinkhaus

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I had a black dot on my bottom lip and you and Iwere at a party for Anderson’s [Cooper] mom in April, and you said, ‘You have a black dot on your lip, I don’t think that’s something good,' it was melanoma and they removed it, and I just want to thank you because you were so dogmatic.

Andy Cohen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Cruz takes certain positions that are very clearly defined. And he's much more conservative, much more dogmatic than Trump.

Sergio Alcocer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We disagree on so much, i don't think of him as an enemy. I think ideologues, partisans on both sides, think of each other as enemies. Our enemies are the people who plant roadside bombs against our soldiers, or shoot up our boardrooms and community college. That's our enemy. I just think that he is just a dogmatic ideologue who very much believes in what he is doing and is pretty much opposite of what we believe.

The Republican Party Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't think of him as an enemy. I think ideologues, partisans on both sides, think of each other as enemies. Our enemies are the people who plant roadside bombs against our soldiers, or shoot up our boardrooms and community college. That's our enemy. I just think that he is just a dogmatic ideologue who very much believes in what he is doing and is pretty much opposite of what we believe.

The Republican Party Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you become dogmatic about the acronym and devote 100 percent of your assets to BRIC, you will get poor returns.

Kunal Ghosh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.

La Bruy?re

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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