Henry initially rejected any calls for moderation, but in October 1266 he was persuaded by the Papal Legate, Ottobuono de' Fieschi, to issue a less draconian policy, called the Dictum of Kenilworth, which allowed for the return of the rebels' lands, in exchange for the payment of harsh fines.
Indeed Fisher quotes what he calls 'the dictum of Charles Darwin', that 'wide ranging, much diffused and common species vary most' from Chapter II of The Origin.
Some philosophers have argued that there are no necessary connections between 'distinct existences', a claim that is sometimes called Hume's dictum.
Finally, premise (3), sometimes called "Hume's dictum", is the view that judgments of fact, apart from desires that might accompany them, do not move us in any way.
Who else is there besides me?" Following this proclamation of divine unity, which has been called the mahāvākya, or great dictum of Devīmāhātmya, she explains that all [other goddesses] are but projections of her power, as are all the other forms she inhabits.
Articulating the Church's golden rule of reciprocity: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," the pope applied the dictum to what he called society's "responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development".
We are not called on to decide, but if the dictum of the Sullivan opinion were followed, the driver having stopped and identified himself, pursuant to the statute, could decline to make any further statement.
In the 1950s, a professor of medicine at Duke University, John Hickam, was said to have proposed an alternative to Occam's razor that he called, tongue slightly in cheek, Hickam's dictum: "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please".
I don't want to issue a dictum that I should be called "Dad" if I haven't earned the title.
The letter had been spearheaded by the authors Teju Cole and Francine Prose, who both teach at my former alma mater of Bard College, a place which, at least when I went there, adhered to the rather more open dictum of Walt Whitman which called on artists to unscrew the locks from the doors, unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs.
