Sentence examples for dictum you from inspiring English sources

At Topgun, there's a dictum: you fight like you train.

Mystery Road brings to mind Nicholas Ray's dictum: "You can't go home again".

The Duchess of Windsor's dictum, "You can never be too rich or too thin," became the norm on Park Avenue.

Some you win and some you lose and, if you cannot accept that dictum, you should not be a punter.

"It's a documentary must-do or dictum: you have to begin with the elderly, and you have to take age and health into consideration," Mr. Kantor said.

TV: Jill Soloway by Hugh Montgomery This year, more than any, television commissioners adhered to Henry Ford's apocryphal dictum: "You can have any colour as long as it's black".

In attacking world citizenship in her dictum, "If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere", Theresa May is in effect repudiating Enlightenment values as a whole, for cosmopolitanism is the apex and indeed the glory of Enlightenment philosophy, encompassing liberty, equality, fraternity, and all our human rights.

In Balkan politics, the dictum, "if you are not with us, you are against us" usually applies.

He turned my sister's dictum - you're not entitled to an opinion, you're entitled to bugger all, you – to ashes.

Duveen admitted that the price he had paid was steep, but he repeated his cardinal dictum: "When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap".

The app follows the dictum that you can't change something unless you measure it, and at least it is attempting to measure the right thing.