Sentence examples for dictum in from inspiring English sources

"The dictum in writing classes used to be 'write what you know,' " he notes.

The S.E.C. filed a brief asking the court to "delete the extensive dictum" in its opinion, to no avail.

Herbert himself says something similar to Eliot's dictum in one of my favourite poems, "A True Hymne".

This was immediately followed by the dictum, in the same hand, "The good adman must be a jerk at heart".

"There's the famous dictum in Hollywood: 'No one knows anything.' You never know what's going to work and what isn't going to work.

For a UN conference even to consider coming to Geneva to bury Voltaire's dictum in the name of faith was a monstrous absurdity.

And he has been honest, as it were, about lying in the interest of national security, quoting Winston Churchill's dictum that "in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies"—before saying that he does not intend to tell lies.

He seems to live by Ignatius of Loyola's dictum suaviter in modo, fortiter in re: gentle in manner, strong in deed.

Twenty-eight yeago ago, weighing a run for president, Mario Cuomo gave a speech at Notre Dame in which he deftly tried to explain how officials could remain good Catholics while going against church dictums in shaping public policy.

The displayed reaction flux values correspond to the GX-FBA predicted metabolic activity pattern, showing that imposition of these gene-expression dictums in combination with the constraints of network connectivity lead to a notable decrease in the rate of BM production.

It was Charles Lyell (1832) who argued for the relevance of organismic distributional information to the fields of biology and geology, and he invoked the famous dictum "As in space, so in time".