Sentence examples for maxim on the from inspiring English sources
Romney repeated a a common maxim on the right that Obama has soured relations with the US's most important ally in the Middle East.
The faintest shadow of a smile plays on her lips, absorbed as she is in playing "solely for the glory of God" — as another Latin maxim on the keywell lid urges her to do.
"What's wrong with living a normal life in Ramallah," proclaims the gold-framed maxim on the wall of "Zeit and Zaater" (Olive Oil and Thyme), Abdulhadi's little restaurant on main street opposite the famed Rukab ice-cream parlor.
David Weinberger, another advocate of new-media journalism, has summarized the situation with a witty play on Andy Warhol's maxim: "On the Web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people".
On the visible spectrum of pornography ranging from Maxim on the tame side to, say, New Frontier Media on the smutty end–Hugh Hefner's creation is right in the uncomfortable middle.
Maxim, on the other hand, had come to Britain from America, where he had made enemies by arguing with Thomas Edison over who invented the light bulb, and generally making a nuisance of himself.
We have come a long way and I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that we will also be able to bring this to a successful conclusion – always guided by the maxim that, on the one hand, the Greeks have to do their own bit and, on the other hand, we have to show solidarity.
But for his ninth novel, Scenes from Early Life, Philip Hensher turned the maxim on its head: the novel is a semi-fictionalised, first-person account not of his own childhood but of his Bangladeshi husband's, the human rights lawyer Zaved Mahmood.
"It is impossible to properly understand an entity consisting of infinite properties without the method of modal description consisting of all viewpoints, since it will otherwise lead to a situation of seizing mere sprouts (i.e., a superficial, inadequate cognition), on the maxim of the blind (men) and the elephant".
Correction: June 7 , 2001 Thursday An obituary of the boxer Joey Maxim on Tuesday misspelled the name of his birthplace and misstated its location.
She invoked the Martin Luther King Jr. maxim on judging people not on the color of their skin, but on the merits of their character.
