Sentence examples for their maxim from inspiring English sources

Kant formulated the basic axiom of the public law: "All actions relating to the right of other men are unjust if their maxim is not consistent with publicity".

When she can't stand their Maxim dreams and TV jokes, she drives up to Kingston, puts on the suit of stars, and hurtles down Route 32, inviting an accident that for some reason never comes.

Hooters, the casual dining chain beloved by straight men who don't have cable Internet access and recently forgot to renew their Maxim subscriptions, just turned 30.

Following a few minor skirmishes, the First Matabele War started in earnest in October: Company troops moved on Lobengula, using the inexorable firepower of their Maxim machine guns to crush attacks by the far larger Matabele army.

Another formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative is the Kingdom of Ends: This formulation requires that actions be considered as if their maxim is to provide a law for a hypothetical Kingdom of Ends.

As to Fox News, the home page on August 5 carried only a brief bottom-of-page note on the jobs report (below a couple of photos of Britney Spears in apparent beachwear--perhaps a final tribute to the departed Roger Ailes), which seems to affirm their maxim: "If you can't say something bad about Obama's performance, say as little as possible".

Among their maxims were "proportion is the good breeding of architecture" and "the supreme excellence is simplicity".

This biconditional is an open invitation to provide counterexamples: actions that are not wrong even though their maxims aren't universalizable, and actions that are wrong, though their maxims are universalizable.

Of course, however sympathetically motivated these actions are, their maxims must be morally permissible something that cannot be guaranteed even when the sympathy that motivates has been cultivated out of respect for the law or the rationally-grounded feeling of love of one's neighbor.

Although Chinese feudalist societies produced such legalist icons as Shang Yang and Shen Dao, with their maxims "rule according to law," the more dominant position was held by Confucius, whose maxim was that government is a human matter.

Bournemouth owe much of their revival to the backing of their owner, Maxim Demin, the Russian billionaire who took full control of the club in 2013.