Sentence examples for motto over from inspiring English sources

"If you really want to know" hangs, like a career motto, over all Amis's fiction.

The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est Potentia" -- "knowledge is power".

The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est Potentia" -- "knowledge is power". Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Expectations are that the E.C.B. will cut interest rates again at its meeting on Thursday, but that's a cut that should have been made a month ago, and it'll still leave interest rates in Europe more than two points higher than in the U.S. The E.C.B.'s motto over the past six months could very well have been: "Too little, too late".

Maybe you can hang that as your motto over your cabin -- or whatever -- door.

That is the unofficial motto hovering over life here, I realised, the invisible sign posted everywhere.

THE Czechs have a motto left over from Communist times: "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work".

I doubt this motto would go over well with the thousands of musicians who worked just as hard as Armstrong but got nowhere near as far because they were nowhere near as talented.

The set is different, and so is her motto, "Mind Over Chatter," but the sensibility is the same.

On certain nights, one might imagine that "Seinfeld" had stamped its motto all over the TV schedule: no hugging, no learning.

McCain, who repeated the motto "record over rhetoric" several times, delivered some optimistic rhetoric of his own, declaring – somewhat bizarrely - "I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends.