Sentence examples for to be axiomatic from inspiring English sources

It used to be axiomatic that the average chancellor lasted no more than two years.

In public television especially it used to be axiomatic that attacks on the budget were retaliation for perceived liberal bias.

If you think gravity is more real than love, rather than merely more durable, you are not going to understand the critique of positivism because you take it to be axiomatic.

Instrumentalists took scientific theories to be axiomatic systems only part of whose vocabulary the observational language is interpreted; the rest is a formal calculus whose purpose is to yield predictions couched in the observational vocabulary.

The radicals restricted their biblicism to the New Testament and espoused three tenets that have come to be axiomatic in the United States: the separation of church and state, the voluntary church, and religious liberty.

There are structural alternatives, but for the story of a journey they can be unpromising and confusing when compared with a structure that is chronologically controlled". Et cetera. Et cetera, in an annual mantra about what I thought to be axiomatic: journeys demand chronological structures.

In an atmosphere reminiscent of 1965, when almost all of the esteemed public voices concurred with the decision by newly elected President Lyndon Johnson to deploy more troops to Vietnam, the tenet that the United States must send additional troops to Afghanistan is axiomatic in U.S. news media, on Capitol Hill and -- as far as can be discerned -- at the top of the incoming administration.

To them, it is axiomatic that Mr Blair will do what he believes is right just as he has over Iraq.

To Falwell, it is axiomatic that his kind of people are the only righteous ones and that they will therefore face nothing but hostility from the rest of the world.

Since 1905 the French state (and public space such as ministries and schools) has been off-limits to religion; it is axiomatic that no faith can ask for political favours.

I USED to think it was axiomatic that the worst trains traveled on the greatest routes -- horrible choo-choos through the wonderful African bush, iron roosters across ancient Xinjiang -- and that the converse was true too: from comfortable trains all you got were disappointing glimpses of Bridgeport or Clapham Junction.