Sentence examples for dictum against from inspiring English sources

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Luckily Gordon's anti-1993 stance doesn't extend to some general dictum against looking back.

"I'm sorry; that's why they tell you not to do that," he apologized amid some light laughter of relief, mindful of a law school dictum against direct address to a judge.

If only our forefathers had included a dictum against business endeavors that have the secondary outcome of infringing on these areas.

On "Finish Line D'jayz," the refrain "motherfuck your favorite DJ" repeats over and over again, turning into a menacing dictum against the competitiveness and in-fighting among Chicago's growing crop of footwork producers.

An on-camera narrator, citing verses from the Koran, confidently explains the destructive iconoclasm against pre-Muslim works of art as a necessary fulfillment of Muhammad's dictum against the worship of false idols.

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That's because Mr. Bhargava lets his story, set during the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, India, tell itself, unfolding slowly as he follows filmmaking's most basic and most sinned-against dictum: Show, don't tell.

The Anslinger court also discussed, in dictum, the policy against imposing liability on hosts in social or quasi-business settings.

To me, this was a great example of how they had joined forces, rebelling against my dictum to finish up, and I smiled to myself.

She had been ambassador for nearly two years, and recalls with slightly more texture than most accounts the "you are with us or against us" dictum that Mr. Armitage issued.

This concession aroused the anger of a large group of ʿAlī's followers, who protested that "judgment belongs to God alone" (Qurʾān 6 57) and believed that arbitration would be a repudiation of the Qurʾānic dictum "If one party rebels against the other, fight against that which rebels" (49 9).

The world No1, who is in awesome form but has shown vulnerability too, will be a slight favourite, and it might be that Murray embraces Runyon's other dictum: "Life is mainly 6-5 against".

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