Sentence examples for based on the maxim from inspiring English sources
Appalled by the inefficiency and inhumane conditions in Britain's penal regime, Bentham developed the idea of the panopticon penitentiary as a substitute penal system, in which convicted criminals would be subject to a disciplinary regime based on the maxim that "the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave" (2001, 277).
Despite its limited resources as a Third World nation and a state of economic siege imposed by the United States for more than half a century, based on the maxim of José Martí, its Apostle and national hero, "to be cultured is to be free," Cuba demonstrates that quality education is within the reach of all nations.
The law of agency is based on the Latin maxim "Qui facit per alium, facit per se," which means "he who acts through another is deemed in law to do it himself". Agency, in its legal sense, nearly always relates to commercial or contractual dealings.
The Castle Doctrine is based on the feudal maxim, "A man's home is his castle".
It seems based on the greeting card maxim that strangers are just friends we haven't met yet.
The first - lc_clean - is designed for use with the ACIS background files and is based on the lc_clean program created by Maxim Markevitch.
The lc_clean routine removes flares (and periods of anomalously-low count rates) from light curves using the same technique as used on the ACIS backgroud files; it is based on the lc_clean program created by Maxim Markevitch.
That maxim is based on the Confucian conviction that cultivation of the self is the root of social order and that social order is the basis for political stability and enduring peace.
In Geneva, Maxim Litvinov once again confirmed Soviet support, based on the suggestion it would avoid war.
In an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994, mathematician Maxim Kontsevich presented a new mathematical conjecture based on the physical idea of mirror symmetry in topological string theory.
In 1998 he directed and choreographed actors in the play "Parzifal," a co-production of the Maxim Gorki and Hebbel Theaters in Berlin, with a scenario by Oliver Reese based on the Wolfram von Eschenbach epic.
