"I would have described John as on the conservative side but with really no sense of sort of a dogmatic approach," he said.

He went to Harvard at 16 and studied math and philosophy, two subjects that would influence his dogmatic approach to everything from comedy to politics.

"It's like someone going to a casino and saying, 'I know how to beat the casino,' " he said of this "dogmatic" approach.

Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme, as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way.

Indeed, on seeing Mr. Feldman's letter I felt confirmed in my appeal for a less dogmatic approach.

In retrospect, Stone says he was reacting against the school's dogmatic approach to religion.

It was a hint that the leadership in Congress is tiring of the Tea Party's dogmatic approach to deficit reduction.

In contrast, unfortunately, the argument is all too often permeated with ideologies and dogmatic or emotive approaches.

Thirdly, we must not take a dogmatic approach, because this area cannot be regulated by the market alone or by the state alone.

I think Renzo has done brilliantly within a very dogmatic approach.