Sentence examples for maxim for a from inspiring English sources

In private law the acceptance of this maxim for a long time posed little difficulty, and the Code Napoléon of 1804 adopted it almost verbatim; in more recent times, however, it is more than questionable whether such a principle can be accepted without qualification.

This isn't a lofty idea of changing the world this is a real, radical maxim for a world that needs changing both our world, that the film directly references, and the imagined world of the film, stricken with poverty, obsessed with consumerism and greed, plunged into mass hysteria and panic over five golden tickets.

This isn't a lofty idea of changing the world – this is a real, radical maxim for a world that needs changing – both our world, that the film directly references, and the imagined world of the film, stricken with poverty, obsessed with consumerism and greed, plunged into mass hysteria and panic over five golden tickets.

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it.

Both are doubtless, well aware of that fundamental maxim for any business: ignore your clients at your peril.

Marichal, who had been in the second-class dining room, said the explosion was "similar to the rattling of a maxim gun for a short period" and came from underneath the whole floor.

Here, in the opening concert of Fröst's weekend residency and Wigmore Hall, in London, he was joined by soprano Miah Persson, pianist Roland Pöntinen and viola player Maxim Rysanov for a thought-through programme that began with a beautifully understated performance of Mozart's E flat clarinet trio.

See Beeke, Wilkinson, and Maxim (2009) for a detailed discussion of this prosodic strategy, and Lind (2002) for a similar pattern in Norwegian agrammatism.

Alex Meadows has not found the move to secondary school an easy one, and has developed a maxim for staying out of trouble: don't react.

"Don't protect mediocrity," Stronach said, repeating a maxim for his vision.

Location, location, location appears to have been a maxim for Welsh National Opera's new La Bohème.