Sentence examples for maxim should be from inspiring English sources

The problem is that as long as we do not have any indication as to the appropriate level of generality at which an action's maxim should be tested, the opposite risk of under-exclusiveness becomes hard to avoid as our four examples above illustrate.

So long as the set of such legitimate bases for denial is publicly discussed and (procedural) checks are being put in place to make sure that access is not denied on other grounds, there is no reason to believe that publicizing such a maxim will be self-frustrating in presence of a real public, nor that such a maxim should be rejected by an ideal public.

The adage was pounded in my head as a youngun, but the more experiences I've witnessed while on prison and parole, the more apparent it's become that the maxim should be flipped to "guilty until proven innocent".

Moreover, our fundamental reason for choosing to act on such maxims should be that they have this lawgiving form, rather than that acting on them would achieve some end or goal that would satisfy a desire (5:27).

That maxim, which should be engraved on mutual fund investors' wallets, is especially true when you're investing outside a tax-protected retirement plan.

Britain is the country that invented the boarding school for seven-year-olds and the maxim that "children should be seen and not heard".

Despite the real estate maxim that interiors should be as neutral as possible so that customers can envision their possessions in them, many model apartments are using distinctive designs to suggest a particular way of life.

Even this is a valuable experience, a chance to test Mr. Slatkin's maxim that "you should be able to show almost everything you're trying to get through gestures".

Machiavelli, in "The Prince," focussed entirely on what rulers had to do to get and keep power, which meant exploiting the fears and desires of their subjects — as in his famous maxim that "men should be either caressed or crushed; because they can avenge slight injuries, but not those that are very severe".

Citing economist Adam Smith's 1776 maxim that taxes should be proportionate to the ability to pay, Mr Swinney confirmed the established of a Scottish Fiscal Commission to independently scrutinise the Scottish government receipts and forecasts.

Until quite recently, physicians accepted the maxim that patients should be transfused so that the hemoglobin was greater than 100 g/l, and that transfusion should be given 2 units at a time.