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"dictum" Definitions
  1. a statement that expresses something that people believe is always true or should be followed

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Mr Lee observed the first dictum, but not the second.
In VR, the dictum "less is more" is especially true.
It was not a dictum to which he was true.
The "we are all in this together" dictum stood up.
So far, arts groups say they welcome the city's dictum.
I abide by the old dictum of agreeing to disagree.
Most appeared to comply with Bey's sharp dictum, but not all.
" She rebuked his pessimism with Franklin Roosevelt's dictum about "fear itself.
American Airlines' latest dictum does not mention lions, tigers or bears.
The 9th Circuit will uphold the Seattle federal district court judge's dictum.
SOMETIMES the old army dictum "Don't volunteer for anything" must be broken.
Such "identity politics" turns on its head the dictum of the Rev.
Barry's multiple acts further disprove Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum about American lives.
And the Carville Dictum needs a simple revision: It's the economy, stupid.
A dictum was soon issued: The actor was not to be disturbed.
When collaborating with songwriters for the album, the band had one dictum.
This takes the swords-into-plowshares dictum to a creative new level.
However, the obvious group missing from that dictum are those without homes.
Pace E. M. Forster's famous dictum, Arthur connects, especially with young people.
The albums reviewed below illustrate this dictum with varying degrees of sublimity.
Perhaps, to invoke the old dictum, it can be Greece to his Rome.
"Evolve or die" being Nicole Kidman's character's paean to the world, her dictum.
Many companies and trade groups follow his dictum, steering well clear of politics.
Yet here I am, embodying Goldman's famous "Screen Trade" dictum, not knowing anything.
Asked whether Kim was playing him, Trump's offered a dictum for our time.
There are certainly subjects on which the dictum "better late than never" applies.
The leaders of Venezuela today, who claim Bolívar as their inspiration, ignore his dictum.
The Reagan-era dictum "Personnel is Policy" absolutely is valid in these multilateral organizations.
But when Mao's chosen successor, Hua Guofeng, repeated that dictum, he sealed his fate.
But Mr Knight's dictum may yet come back to bite the company he created.■
The classic Carl Sagan dictum that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" undoubtedly rings true.
Its dictum that Nazis are bad should always have remained a benign, foregone conclusion.
Having been a governor, I can't stress to you how accurate that dictum is.
As the old journalistic dictum implores, Kingsley shows this reduction to bare life, without telling.
The Special Forces' dictum has long been that if an insurgency isn't shrinking, it's succeeding.
How does all this relate to her now infamous dictum on the banality of evil?
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lutz told me, quoting Lord Acton&aposs dictum.
A Victorian dictum, now out of fashion, states that children should be seen, not heard.
America's new Iran policy is more or less the reverse of Teddy Roosevelt's famous dictum.
They should not fall for Mr Bolsonaro—whose dictum might be "they tortured, but they acted".
I had always believed in the Islamic dictum that God promises sustenance to all, even insects.
Maybe there's some dictum that says art has to be released according to some accountant's schedule.
Suspendisse auctor, magna nec imperdiet feugiat, tellus est feugiat nunc, ac dictum urna ante vel felis.
The second thing to remember is Walter Bagehot's dictum about parliamentary government being "government by discussion".
IOTA, currently the world's tenth most valuable cryptocurrency, took an … assertively contrarian stance regarding this dictum.
There is a famous Jewish dictum about protecting one's health and the well-being of others.
Although the age-old dictum came from selling real estate, the same goes for starting a business.
Dozens of "Ruskinlands" sprang up across the world, putting into practice his dictum that "local is logical".
" This dictum by French poet Boileau translates roughly to, "Put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
You understand Dolly Parton's show business dictum, "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap"?
"It may take guts to go, but it takes balls to say no" was their controversial dictum.
She dives into such eclectic topics as Kant's "Dare to know!" dictum, lie detectors, and oath-swearing.
" Mr. Matthews said he was originally inspired to write to fulfill Henry James's dictum "lust to know.
We were polarizing because we did not "play ball" with the sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll messaging dictum.
Campus protesters, by contrast, argue that some speech causes psychological harm, and is therefore covered by Mill's dictum.
Frank Stella's dictum, "What you see is what you see," helped to obscure the occult side of abstraction.
"Where there's smoke, there's fire" is a good dictum for forestry management but doesn't really apply to politics.
There is the middle position: Justice Brandeis's dictum of "more speech" that allows us to respond without punishing.
Marx's dictum "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" was the household catechism.
And isn't that a focus on the past that violates the dictum that campaigns are about the future?
Others feel they haven't been adequately consulted, and the checklist is just another irritating dictum from on high.
Politics, Breitbart believed, is downstream from culture, and for Duke, that oft-repeated dictum became a rallying cry.
The big truth, not that anyone dared to mention it, was that Shelley's dictum needed to be revised.
" It yearns, with an almost physical intensity, to realize the much-quoted dictum from "Howards End": "Only connect.
Every chef in the world pretends to adhere to Escoffier's dictum, fait simple and 99 percent of them fail.
From an early age I adhered to William Morris's dictum that a thing should be either useful or beautiful.
Mr Selmayr abides by Oscar Wilde's dictum that the only thing worse than being talked about is the opposite.
Two films that just debuted at the Cannes Film Festival — Faces Places and Promised Land — take that dictum seriously.
Old dictum, new iteration: as with a magical effect, when snow clouds materialize nothing should be left to chance.
A dictum among linguists is that languages differ not in what they can express, but in what they must.
Throughout, Sharma adheres unwaveringly to Raymond Carver's dictum of "no tricks," telling his stories with bracingly direct, unassuming language.
Mr. Gerasimov "cites the dictum of Marx — Karl, not Groucho — that work is more interesting than entertainment," The Times said.
"This is an assault on our democratic principles, where the dictum should hold true: one person, one vote," she added.
If the Dutch Golden Age evinced a newly intimate focus on the individual, Rembrandt applied the dictum to himself ruthlessly.
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S dictum—"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us"—may account for the distinctively cabalistic quality of British politics.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's well-known dictum so it now is, "I'm entitled to my own facts, which will match my opinions."
Noteworthy here is the President's famous dictum that when he is attacked or done ill, he will strike back in spades.
With attentive and intelligent sympathy, Markovits digs beneath Tolstoy's dictum about happy families to raise the question, What is family happiness?
Listening to Mr. Porter's second single from the album, entitled "Known Space," it's hard not draw comparisons to this immense dictum.
I'm reminded of the acting coach's dictum that it's not important that the actor cry; it's important that the audience does.
Often borrowing from his literary hero's dictum, Muir harnessed Thoreau's statement to promote his drive to save California wilderness from ruin.
Prince Muhammad may be heeding the dictum of Niccolò Machiavelli that it is better for a prince to be feared than loved.
Mr. Obama's infamous policy dictum, "Don't do stupid" things, has been the sole organizing principle of Europeans' foreign policy for years now.
She embodied the dictum that the difference between a painter and an artist is that an artist knows when to stop painting.
Meanwhile economists are increasingly willing to question the dictum set out by Milton Friedman in 1963 that inflation is a monetary phenomenon.
" It's an unsettling sequence of events one can read equally as either proof of or counterpoint to the dictum "Believe All Women.
"All art constantly aspires toward the condition of music": Walter Pater's fusty dictum is a neo-Romantic cri de coeur for Énard.
Still, if Mr. Trump lives by any management dictum, it may be this: The only indispensable employee looks back from his mirror.
For 92 years, the firm has held fast to the dictum of never disclosing names of clients or the advice it gives.
That it's often a much more clumsy, awkward process than the ominous news reports and ruthless-sounding CEO dictum would have us believe.
It is almost as if officials are promoting a return to the late Deng Xiaoping's dictum that China should keep a low profile.
So in all too much of the academic world, the writer Kingsley Amis's famous dictum that more means worse is coming to pass.
Ethics and its relationship to aesthetics (encapsulated in Wittgenstein's dictum that the two are "one and the same") is an ever-present concern.
These laws, while feisty, aren't foolproof: The FCC's ruling includes a dictum that states aren't allowed to self-regulate to protect net neutrality.
It may be guided by the president-elect's dictum that you push your counterpart as far as you can without losing the deal.
So it looks like Google decided to follow a simple dictum: If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
"Things exist but they are not real" is a typical dictum from the guru Mu Soeng, in his book on the Heart Sutra.
The phrase should be the ruling dictum in a service industry with one mission — to successfully transport passengers from one place to another.
Holder (2013), gutting enforcement of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act, or VRA, elevated Keynes' supposed dictum to the level of constitutional mandate.
As the week started, the fight over McGahn's testimony continued, with the now-private attorney following a White House dictum to ignore Congress.
His advice to novice traders — to wake up each morning "ready to bite the ass off a bear" — became a Wall Street dictum.
Its obiter dictum on politics—whether far right or far left, everyone is equally questionable—in this US election year rings particularly false.
However, each of these prior presidents understood the dictum of Truman's sign: The buck stopped in the Oval Office, with the president personally.
Far from being an antibiotic, the president's trade approach recalls the classic dictum: if the disease doesn't kill you, the cure surely will.
Tillerson's action signals that Milton Friedman's famous dictum that "nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program," may finally no longer hold.
" As the breakfast wore on, I was reminded of the business philosopher Dov Seidman's dictum that "trust is the only legal performance-enhancing drug.
This dictum has held true even as members of the alt-right have used trolling to propagate sexist, anti-Semitic, racist, and white nationalist memes.
That means they saved 11 cents—enough to push up the savings rate, but not enough to undermine the dictum that cheap petrol boosts consumption.
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," William Morris wrote in his famous dictum.
" In this début collaboration, called "Into the Little Hill," Crimp and Benjamin followed Emily Dickinson's dictum to "tell all the truth but tell it slant.
He said that voters found Mr. Sanders credible precisely because his speeches never seemed cooked up for the occasion; instead, he "delivers it as dictum."
Eric Holder, Obama's former Attorney General and yet another possible Presidential candidate, responded to the fall's events by amending Michelle Obama's famous dictum of 2016.
While he left office accomplished and popular, he failed to fulfill the core dictum of reversing the Reagan drumbeat of government as problem not solution.
Alex Pollock, a former colleague of mine, never tires of repeating his dictum that if a debt cannot be repaid, it will not be repaid.
Shoe, fashion and beauty online retailer Netshoes, valued at $557 million at the time of its April IPO, might have done well to follow that dictum.
Rather like the judge's famous dictum about obscenity, a well-run company may be hard to define but we can recognise it when we see it.
It's the dictum we were told to apply to our diets, too: Avoid processed foods, and if your grandmother wouldn't recognize the ingredients, don't eat it.
Following Dwight Eisenhower's dictum that "If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it", the Trump administration hopes to engage China on a broader range of interests.
OVER THE coming weeks the British will have plenty of chances to reflect on Harold Wilson's dictum that "a week is a long time in politics".
Even so, the clearest signal from this month's results may be a variation on the old dictum from the legendary Ohio State football coach, Woody Hayes.
"THE FINAL WORD FROM THE PRES OF THE U.S." sounds more like a dictum from the great and powerful Oz than from a democratically elected leader.
Silence from the country's mental health organizations has been due to a self-imposed dictum about evaluating public figures (the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 Goldwater Rule).
And there is this key dictum of Mr. Trump's brand of politics: The enemy of my enemy is my friend, if only for a news cycle.
Today's Doomsday Clock announcement offers a critical reminder that continuing Eisenhower's dictum that he "kept the peace" requires the continuation of active, steady leadership throughout the world.
" Hence his famous dictum that the conservative will "prefer the familiar to the unknown…the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible.
"To give matter another role than the one nature intended it to have is to kill it" — this was how the young man internalized Brancusi's central dictum.
" An attempt to apply cinéma vérité techniques to a dramatic story, it demonstrates Rouch's dictum, expressed in "The Human Pyramid," that "fiction once filmed becomes a reality.
"I understand it, but the dictum to work from home and not go out has made my city, San Francisco, into a ghost town," Thomas told VICE.
That dictum is the force behind the plot and presentation of "The Light Years," the Debate Society's leisurely and copiously detailed contemplation of the quest for illumination.
Essentially, Jones has taken Frank Stella's clarion call for opticality, as encoded in his dictum "What you see is what you see," and stood it on its head.
This controversy has produced some meaningful critiques of the president by people who previously lived by the dictum "stick to sports" as if it were a religious calling.
The "Carville Dictum" at last is getting a fresh look — and that's a good thing for all those interested in the interplay between presidential approval and the economy.
Vladimir Lenin's faction, the Bolsheviks, was particularly aided by World War I. And Communism, once in power, reversed Clausewitz's famous dictum and made politics war by other means.
Few of us are likely to agree with her dictum that photography is best practiced as a purely objective art that makes no concession to inwardness or interiority.
While the base-running dictum is to freeze on a line drive with less than two outs, Manager Joe Girardi absolved Hicks of any blame on the play.
" She "saluted" what she called Mr. Trump's "realism" and his "desire for change," while quoting approvingly Charles de Gaulle's dictum that states have "no friends, but only interests.
" I am sure that I am not the only one who was reminded of Jasper Johns' dictum: "Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it.
Certainly China has broken with the dictum of the early 1990s, coined by the then-supreme leader, Deng Xiaoping, that China should "hide its capacities and bide its time".
Hell, there's even documentary proof: here is the Alabama coach grinning without prompting, thereby violating the very dictum that he lay down to his players and his assistant coaches.
" In the end, though, the study "generally supports the old notion, again sort of a dictum within medicine, that teetotalers don't live as long as people who do drink.
House leadership of course pays lip service to the idea of party unity, but in practice Democratic leaders view unity as a top-down dictum and not a consensus.
This dates back to the Continental Congress, and recognizes even the practical dictum that representative governance is founded upon and operates through relationships between, in the end, real people.
Maybe it's this intense emotional involvement that allows newcomers to swallow the wider dictum around men being the oppressed sex, something that flies in the face of popular evidence.
" While he reminded the Writers' Union of José Martí's dictum "Justice first, art later," he proclaimed shortly after his cultural ministry was established, "Justice has triumphed, forward with art.
Shedding superlatives, I felt as though I were enacting a linguistic version of Coco Chanel's dictum that before leaving the house a woman should remove one piece of jewelry.
But there is an all-important rider to the dictum: "A prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred."
IF BRITAIN adhered to Groucho Marx's dictum of never joining a club willing to have him as a member, it would be on its way out of the European Union.
In fact, the corporation in Citizens United was a non-stock, nonprofit corporation, so any reference in the opinion to stockholders — whether "citizens" or not — is plainly a noncontrolling dictum.
A fluid caped dress that appears to be made from a single piece of weighty cornflower silk calls to mind Brancusi's dictum, another favorite of Piccioli: Simplicity is complexity resolved.
If I made the smart-kitchen product-design rules, dictum number one would be, All key functions of an appliance must be able to be controlled on the appliance itself.
The visions that ensue seem to embody German Expressionist artist Franz Marc's dictum that rather than paint animals in landscapes, we should paint landscapes seen through the eyes of animals.
Now Deadspin, too, is effectively dead, after Great Hill demanded that its writers "stick to sports" and fired interim editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky for refusing to abide by that dictum.
The latest entry in the health and happiness field — the Million Women Study — appears to poke a hole in the accepted dictum that well-being is a driver of good health.
But we're living in perfectly insane times, and obeying the "any port in a storm" dictum, the techno veteran and Facebook animal post innovator is as good a savior as any.
The famous Bruce Lee dictum, "be water," has become a slogan for the ongoing Hong Kong protest movement, whose embodiment of fluidity has been a key factor in eluding the police.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the mid-1980s, while attending Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Mike Pence drew a regular comic strip for the school paper, Dictum.
Although immediately after June 23rd some hoped British voters might be induced by the economic fallout or deeper reflection to think again, most now accept Mrs May's dictum that "Brexit means Brexit".
The project is the clearest expression so far of Mr Xi's determination to break with Deng Xiaoping's dictum to "hide our capabilities and bide our time; never try to take the lead".
All indications are that we may soon find out how true Friedman's dictum will prove to have been with respect to the unprecedented balance sheet expansion of the world's major central banks.
" And I recalled Israeli societal innovator Gidi Grinstein's dictum that what is saving so many communities today is "leadership without authority — so many people stepping up to lead beyond their formal authority.
What the demon Michael (Ted Danson) — the architect of The Good Place — discovers is that, contrary to Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum in his play "No Exit," hell is not always other people.
More even than our Indochina debacle, it could bury George Patton's dictum about our addiction to victory, our contempt for defeat, by proving that 21st-century Americans have learned to swallow stalemate.
Worst of all was her dictum that "no deal is better than a bad deal", which threatened to crash Britain out of the EU if Brussels failed to make a good enough offer.
But previous attempts by authorities to hold Backpage responsible for illegal content on its website have failed due to Section 230's dictum that websites aren't liable for content posted by their users.
Thanks, in part, to a playlist of TED talks on the productivity of failure, the dictum to "fail harder, fail faster" is now being peddled in fields from scientific research to elementary education.
Introducing Butler University freshman Luke Zapolski, a broke-ass Cubs fan who followed the ancient dictum of subterfuge (and Major League Baseball, really), all the way into Wrigley Field: Act Like You Belong.
The real chorus in "Midsummer" — blending with the dancers and the orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton —  brought Balanchine's dictum that he wanted people to "see the music, hear the dance" to vivid life.
Inspired by Walt Whitman's dictum "Resist much, obey little," Abbey became an aggressive watchdog of Arches and the surrounding Utah canyonlands held sacred by the Hopi, Navajo, Ute and Pueblo of Zuni tribes.
Two hours later, I would hear this same mantra delivered onstage — a dictum transformed in a moment of tremendous cultural upheaval from an easy moral into a bittersweet judgment on modern American politics.
" As I read these moving and cozily seductive passages, I thought of Flaubert's famous dictum about being "regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
According to Mr. Liu's authorized biography, he faced local criticism at first for his early embrace of capitalism, and responded by saying that his fish feed was an improved product that followed Deng's dictum.
Straight black women and gay black bottoms reclaim power through the movement by refuting a white, puritanical dictum that bodies should not desire or enjoy the passive position...though, of course, it's classier than that.
I don't forget Clay Shirky's rueful dictum that "it's not a revolution if nobody loses," and I concede that the losers in any technologically wrought social transformation are often those with the least to lose.
This double movement—first toward mere play, then toward real power—is in part a classic cycle in the making of modern art, reversing Marx's "first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" dictum.
Probably not, but it's very funny to think of a blocked writer delivering this melancholy dictum to a 12-year-old, and Lennon is much too self-amusedly detached to pass up a good joke.
These accomplishments no longer account for much on the Republican side of the aisle on Capitol Hill, where Republican insurgents now apply Nancy Reagan's dictum of "Just Say No" to diplomacy to reduce nuclear threats.
He shows her admiring a poster of Malcolm X that bears the legend "By Any Means Necessary," a reference to his dictum that no strategy should be ruled out in the African-American freedom struggle.
Our national policies have marched inexorably closer toward Milton Freidman's dictum that higher education is a purely "private good" that should be paid for by the individual and ISAs are just another step down that path.
In accord with Arthur C. Clarke's famous dictum, the technology devised by the Company has become indistinguishable from magic, but this is not so much a midsummer night's dream as it is a year-round nightmare.
"Sophisticated letting go" was how Ms. Nichanian described her intentions, a slippery notion unless you remember Mick Jagger's dictum that it is all right to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Where Boucheron presents French history as a product of diverse ethnic and geographical influences, Zemmour adheres to Thomas Carlyle's dictum that history is "but the biography of great men": the most powerful win, and rightly so.
Before the election of Donald Trump, its passionate dictum to choose between love and fear would have been a mild, feel-good platitude meant to politely jostle, but never deeply disquiet, a mainstream white Broadway audience.
In a first conversation as President (as opposed to conversations during a campaign as a candidate), he needed to be ready to accept the dictum that you rarely get a second chance to make a first impression.
In fact, it's not dissimilar to Trump's reported dictum that all briefings fit on one page and include no more than nine bullet points—if it's good enough for Trump, it's good enough for Axios, I guess.
WHEN John Locke chose Cicero's dictum "salus populi suprema lex esto" ("let the public welfare be the supreme law") as the epigraph for his Second Treatise on Government, it's safe to say he wasn't thinking about toilet rules.
If they felt confronted, he and his classmates should have paid heed to the Christian dictum of "turn the other cheek" rather than to thrust both cheeks into the face of an elder about whom they knew nothing.
Because instruments are another technology, because why would a band crash a 12-step meeting, because Mr. Malloy believes in writing the thing that scares you the most, a dictum he credits to the playwright Young Jean Lee.
Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. Clifford further explains that he subscribes to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dictum that a person should never be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Whether we believe that dictum or not, we keep proving it truer and truer in the third millennium of Christ—with our partisan "news" as much as with our anti-literary "media properties," and especially with our online interactions.
His paintings, drawings and prints — including his etchings and monotypes currently showing at Niels Borch Jensen Gallery in Berlin — corroborate a dusty but resilient modernist dictum – it is energized scrutiny of one's own form that brings about novel experience.
Mr Corbyn also wants policies made from the bottom up, with a bigger role for the party conference (evidently not agreeing with Arthur Balfour's dictum that he would prefer to take advice from his valet than from a Tory conference).
He is fond of invoking Mr. Reagan's Cold War dictum ("We win, they lose"), Margaret Thatcher's dismissal of socialism ("The problem with socialism is, eventually you run out of other people's money"), and even, at times, President John F. Kennedy.
Has it been strange for you to kind of watch that message go from being standard conservative dictum to being something that seems to be a relatively unpopular statement among a lot of people who think of themselves as being conservative?
They loved Muir, whose famous dictum, "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe," emphasized the interconnectedness of all things, an attitude that echoed the animist worldview of the Chilkats.
The dictum "Publish or perish" goes beyond job prospects: a scientist's funding is based largely on her name and publication record, and without the endorsement of top journals in the field it can be difficult to fund research, or a livelihood.
At this point in the life of the internet, Rule 34 — the dictum that if something exists, someone has made a porn of it — can be expanded and extrapolated to a daily walkthrough AO3: If it exists, there's fanfiction about it.
"The data reinforces the dictum that getting it right the first time is always the most cost effective approach," senior study author Dr. Sarmad Sadeghi of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said by email.
Wednesday's application by Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello for bankruptcy protection for the island under the provisions of the PROMESA Act underlines how true Pollock's debt dictum has proved to be in the case of the heavily over-indebted Puerto Rican economy.
A medical 'dictum' Dr. William T. Cefalu, chief scientific, medical and mission officer of the American Diabetes Association, said the new study's strengths include the large number of people surveyed, but its weaknesses include an inability to control for other risk factors such as diet.
Much about her is different from when she was young, but when a second mass murder casts a shadow over Celeste's life — and she quips about it — Corbet seems to be hewing to Marx's dictum that history happens first as tragedy and then as farce.
While Mr. Warhol famously quipped that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, Mr. O'Brien apparently took this dictum and added a personal twist: For some 45 years, he seemed to be famous every 15 minutes, and always for something entirely different.
Yet at a moment when virulent divisions of race and religion plague not only the Middle East but also countries around the world, including ours, this resonant drama echoes E. M. Forster's dictum, "Only connect," and wonders why — oh, why — that can't be possible.
But "be fruitful and multiply" is not a Koranic dictum, and when people of faith conclude that God is better pleased with sustainability than with relentless population growth we will be free to foster a world that offers both warmth and opportunity for women.
Treat Others How You Want to Be Treated In the end any session should wind up with the recognition that the age old dictum of: "Do not do to others that which you would not have done to you" still applies to all human interactions.
"It's America's 22010," said Brian Knight, the director of the area's United Service Organizations, repeating a dictum often spoken around the base as a testament to its significance as one of the largest military installations in the world and an economic and cultural backbone for the area.
As if to prove Thomas Fuller's dictum that a mob has many heads but no brains this immediately led to random and unprovoked violence against Africans caught at the wrong time at the wrong place, from a lone Kenyan woman to a group of Nigerians at a shopping mall.
Espousing the dictum of "taoguang yanghui," (literally "Hide Brightness, Cultivate Obscurity," but typically translated in English as "Lay Low and Bide Your Time,") Deng advocated avoiding flashy shows of power in order to shield Chinese efforts from outside scrutiny while the country wasn't positioned to handle them properly.
Here are some takeaways from the biggest day of voting so far in the 2016 election: He took seven of 153 states — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia — and broke the age-old political dictum that a gilded New Yorker could not win in the Deep South.
MADRID — Living in Europe, I'm frequently reminded of an oft-repeated dictum from my high school French teacher, Madame Morris, who insisted that Europeans — at least the late 218th-century ones she knew — would rather invest in a few quality garments than a closet full of cheaply made clothes.
" Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago, wrote that the sharp increase in profits reflects Warren Buffett's investment dictum: "I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats' " — profits have risen "because firms became better at creating product differentiation and erecting barriers to entry.
In its repetition, "sorrow conquers everything" becomes at once an absurdly reductive dictum and quite possibly a hard-won truth; a snippet of folk wisdom; a subtitle in a grainy art-house offering of the 1950s or '60s; an angsty adolescent's diary entry; or the second line of a melancholy haiku.
Near the end of the previous installment, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar declared that the rebel ape Koba wasn't an ape, which seemed to make tossing him over a ledge to his death more acceptable in the face of the "ape not kill ape" dictum ruling the apes' civilization.
The trailer, which aired on ESPN during Monday Night Football, did little to dispel the mystery of the film's title, nor that jarring dictum uttered by Luke in the teaser trailer — but it did give us tantalizing glimpses of the First Order's vengeance against the Resistance after the action of The Force Awakens.
"The Good Life" could almost be an ­illustration of the Chekhovian dictum that a gun introduced in the first act must be fired before the curtain falls, as the reader avidly turns the pages, eager to discover which violent solution Roger will choose as a means of escaping his financial and personal ­distress.
His background, along with his descriptions of the challenging lessons he learned during his medical training, serves as a startling retort to the dictum of the so-called "two cultures": C.P. Snow's idea that the humanities and the sciences remain deeply divided in Western intellectual thought and never the twain shall meet.
In twenty years, the reader goes from the exuberant disclosures of a young poet absorbing Frank O'Hara's dictum, "I do this, I do that" to the poems written after he tested positive for HIV (November 1987) and began studying at Yale Divinity School, with the intention of becoming a priest in the Episcopal Church.
Suge Knight, miffed that he'd let Dr. Dre's kid stepbrother slip into the clutches of Def Jam, refused to allow Death Row artists to collaborate with Warren G. Knight's dictum meant that Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg––Warren's best friends since early childhood and two-thirds of their LBC rap group 290––were almost entirely absent from his album.
Would a student become an intellectual risk-taker by disputing the alarmist thinking on climate change so routinely encouraged in public-school classrooms or by arguing that teachers unions harm students by insisting on making it easy for teachers to attain tenure and hard for schools to retain bright young teachers under the "last-hired, first-fired" dictum?
Not because of the toddler dictum "eat your colors" appropriated by health-conscious grown-ups, but to render it fit for Instagram, where her feed has been filled of late with photographs of a red and yellow tomato salad; a luridly magenta beetroot curry; and an icy green cantaloupe melon with a snow-like dusting of feta.
Clinton also specifically promised to "appoint strong enforcement officials at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and FTC who have demonstrated a willingness to take on anti-competitive behavior," aligning herself with Warren's dictum that "personnel is policy" and suggesting that this is an area of her administration where she is comfortable giving wins to the left.
That prompted an early morning Twitter-threat from Mr. Trump, who once offered to pay supporters' legal bills if they bashed protesters at his political rallies: Representative Patrick McHenry, Republican of North Carolina, wants the Federal Reserve to stop talking about financial regulation with other countries, citing President Trump's dictum that the United States must put America first.
But because the compressed daylong date, capped by an elaborate Korean-themed dinner, carries very much real-life nuclear and gulag consequences, the rendezvous that proved long on bonhomie and woefully short on dismantlement discussions on weapons-and-camps of mass destruction merely reaffirms a cliché: Karl Marx's dictum that history repeats itself in tragi-farcical cycles.
Usually attributed to Hobbes, its line goes to thinkers like Machiavelli, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, to al-Ghazelli in the Muslim world, to the Roman Law dictum that "Whatever the prince wills is the law," and finally to post-Aristotelian philosophy, especially Epicurus and Democritus, who withdrew from the city of reason as it was found in Plato and Aristotle.
Governors of at least 17 states have ordered residents to stay at home, but President TrumpDonald John TrumpNorth Korea asking for aid, while denying any coronavirus cases: report Iranian official maintains Tehran has 'no knowledge' of American hostage's whereabouts Unemployment claims surge to 3.2 million as coronavirus devastates economy MORE has not issued a similar dictum to the Italian lockdown.
Having been a professor at U.S. military colleges for 27 years and hearing so much about educating officers in Prussian General Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz's dictum that war is the continuation of politics and policy; I find it dismaying to see that Trump and apparently key members of his policymaking team embraced an approach that is guaranteed to fail.
In one poem, "Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge," Noah, post-flood, finds he has his work cut out for him: At last the sigh of recession: the land Wells from the water; the beasts depart; the man Whose shocked speech must conjure a landscape As of some country where the dead years keep A circle of silence, a drying vista of ruin, Musters himself, rises . . .
" Cohen warned that if the military carried out these orders, they could face a Nuremberg-like trial, saying, "we have to be concerned about that you have an order given by the commander in chief which violates every sense of law and order, international law and order, that would make any of those who carried out that dictum such to be a violation of the international criminal code.
Mr. Bianco leaves the execution of Tratto's one-page menu to Anthony Andiario, but it was easy to detect an extension of Mr. Bianco's cooking dictum ("It's about stopping when it's enough") in dishes from the midsummer menu: a salad of local melon, shaved cucumber and mint; chicken roasted with bay leaves and Arizona grapes attached to their stems; farinata, the Italian chickpea crepe, thick with oil-cured olives and desert-grown peppers and I'itoi onions.
In line with the Marshall Plan dictum that natives have more credibility than foreigners, it was staffed by American hosts: an incongruous mix of telegenic, ambitious but inexperienced broadcast journalists like Liz Wahl, whom RT recruited from the local television station in the Mariana Islands, and later-career itinerant expats like Peter Lavelle, a banker-turned-reporter who previously worked as a stringer for United Press International's Moscow bureau and contributed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Jürgen Klopp's team had a scree of superb performances in those first 80 minutes, as Roma teetered and crumbled: Jordan Henderson and Georginio Wijnaldum seemingly ubiquitous in midfield, fulfilling that old Pep Guardiola dictum of "I get the ball, I play the ball, I get the ball, I play the ball"; Firmino himself, scorer of not just Liverpool's fourth but its fifth, too, a simple header from a corner, buzzing around Roma's bedraggled defenders; Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson, wrapping Liverpool's team in a bundle of pure energy.

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