Sentence examples for as a maxim from inspiring English sources

As a maxim, it has its merits.

He hoped people might remember that as a maxim.

As a maxim, The Birthday Present uses a line from King Lear: "The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us".

As a maxim of the early common law, the rule was well suited to buying and selling carried on in the open marketplace or among close neighbours.

Descartes complains that "the philosophers of the schools accept as a maxim that there is nothing in the understanding which was not previously in the senses".

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

This is a maxim in financial speculation as well as scientific and even theological inquiry.

But, as Lenin wrote, quoting a maxim often attributed to Napoleon, "on s'engage et puis on voit": you get in a fight and then you see what to do next.

Lange accepted materialism as a sensible maxim for the construction of theories within natural science.

However, he does not employ this criterion as a logical maxim but transforms it into some kind of ontological principle according to which everything that prevents harmony cannot be real.

His research has led him to conclude that Baker and the cases that followed it -- including 1964's Reynolds v. Sims, which cemented "one person, on vote" as a constitutional maxim -- were all a big mistake.