Sentence examples for In a dictum from inspiring English sources

I can say it only in a dictum: the world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

No less an authority than Arthur C. Clarke has observed -- in a dictum known to his legions of fans as Clarke's Third Law -- that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Those of us who were young during Franco's dictatorship were subsequently carried away with a perhaps naive enthusiasm about Europe, summed up in a dictum attributed to the philosopher Ortega y Gasset: "Spain is the problem, Europe the solution".

To be sure, Coke there, in a dictum, citing precedents, dilated on the inherent revocability of the authority given to an arbitrator; such a revocation was not too important, however, if it resulted in a stiff judgment on a penal bond.

An editorial in the Wall Street Journal is oblivious to the potential cost in Egyptian lives, and an op-ed in the Times by David Brooks, entitled "Defending the Coup," disparages the possibilities of electoral politics and the capabilities of Egyptians, culminating in a dictum that is simply ugly.

He also informed the Theologians of Salamanca, led by Francisco de Vitoria, of the mass baptism practiced by the Franciscans, resulting in a dictum condemning the practice as sacrilegious.

This is "about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greek" and becomes a dictum for Richard.

He said he learned a dictum in early jobs on Wall Street that can apply far beyond the realm of finance: "In God we trust.

In Australia, treasures have been accumulating in some museums for nearly 200 years, and those who work in them live by a dictum: never throw anything away.

This phenomenon, which is known as the Lazarus effect, has inspired a dictum in the conservation community: at the beginning of a project, there must be a plan for killing the last animal.

Far from hanging out, hoping for inspiration, she has stayed as close to the originals as possible, citing, in her liner notes, a dictum from opera diva Maria Callas: 'The composer has already taken care of everything.