Sentence examples for dictum that from inspiring English sources

There's an age-old sportswriter dictum that commands no cheering from the press box.

He simply says that he will follow the dictum that has brought him profits before.

There is no etiquette dictum that says the bride's family has the final say regarding the attendants' attire.

They say they overlook the Torah's prohibition against homosexual sex as an ancient dictum that has lost its moral force.

In a world of finite resources it is a dictum that bears repeating.

There is a Talmudic dictum that says that "all Jews are guarantors for one another".

High rates of death and disease from pollution are just further examples of Donald Rumsfeld's cynical dictum that "stuff happens".

What Peter meant was the influence of Mayr's theoretical dictum that recently separated species did not interbreed.

The findings also emphasize the importance of the Hippocratic dictum that patient outcome is improved when care is individualized rather than delivered according to a protocol.

Nettleton v. James, supra, stated as dictum that a latent defect would be an excuse.

Is there any truth in the dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living?