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shibboleth sentence examples

  • Shibboleth of orthodoxy.
  • The strategic defense initiative, or star wars, became a shibboleth for reagan, the believer in armageddon.
  • Shibboleth for christological orthodoxy.
  • That's why the old shibboleths about tax no longer apply.
  • Shibboleths of the new establishment.
  • His flexible mind impatiently discards the shibboleths of old think.
  • The ideological shibboleths of neo-liberal economics have been broken.
  • Shibboleth used as a test.
  • The existing far left organizations, even the most open of them, remain narrow and tied to their own particular shibboleths.
  • A willingness to call the virgin mary theotokos is an important shibboleth for christological orthodoxy.
  • Each generation has its political shibboleths and none of them last forever.
  • Keep up the good work, but with fewer shibboleths!

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