Sentence examples for a maxim in from inspiring English sources

For supporting fairness, we argue that fairness qualifies as a maxim in modeling.

And there's a maxim in publishing that says people don't buy books by authors whose names they can't pronounce.

A maxim in Vegas goes that the person who invented gambling was smart, but the person who invented chips was a genius.

There's a maxim in the autism community that goes: "if you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism".

By David Owen There is a maxim in the cruise-ship industry that the average passenger gains a pound a day while on board.

Stephen J. Dubner's fine article (Aug. 3) highlighted a maxim in Steven Levitt's work: when the right question is asked, it has more power than the answer.

The maxim "in old age a little less" is also applicable in this field.

So deeply did the iniquities of the ancient system impress themselves upon the minds of the American colonists that the states, with one accord, made a denial of the right to question an accused person a part of their fundamental law, so that a maxim, which in England was a mere rule of evidence, became clothed in this country with the impregnability of a constitutional enactment.

He asked Forbes to send more men and a Maxim gun in the morning, but did not explain what he planned to do with them.

It should be a maxim now in contemporary poetry -- one of the few we permit -- that every new poetry collection by Ron Silliman is worthy of not just abstract celebration but a purchase of the book forthwith.

Another English songwriter, Jake Bugg, leaned toward American country, and offered what might be a SXSW maxim in one song: "I have a guitar but I have no money/That don't mean that I am blue".