common maxims

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Romney repeated a a common maxim on the right that Obama has soured relations with the US's most important ally in the Middle East.

Although the common maxim inside the treasury was that of Congress "cutting off the water to the fire department when the city is burning down", Rubin recognised, as he later put it in his memoirs, that "many members of Congress probably meant to oppose us without actually stopping us".

But I'm bringing up Lavingia's terminology here to add context to another point; There is a common maxim among the startup community, "If you as a user are not paying for something then you're probably the product".

It ties back to a common maxim: If the black community doesn't place value within itself, then who will? "There's a whole value proposition that we have to invest in ourselves," Morgan says.

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Indeed they embed age-old common sense maxims such as "there is no such thing as a free lunch" or "if an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is".

Fraudulent billings and false statements to health officials became "a common practice at Maxim from 2003 through 2009," according to a statement from the United States attorney's office in Newark, N.J.

Kant sets out three "maxims of common human understanding" [= reason] which are closely related to the Categorical Imperative.

The two that have attracted the most attention are Kant's "maxims of common human understanding" and his well-known account of the "public use of reason".

The English lawyer and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561 1626) composed a collection of maxims of the common law in Latin with an elaborate English commentary on each; and the writings of the English jurist Sir Edward Coke (1552 1634) were replete with similar Latin aphorisms, some borrowed from Roman law, others invented.

Individuals are called to act prudently in order to ensure the benefit of society through their own individual actions, thus, the "common good" becomes the assumed maxim of responsible action (Lessenich 2010).