Sentence examples for two maxim from inspiring English sources

Having studied the proposals, TNK-BP's interim chief executive Mikhail Fridman – also the largest shareholder in AAR – and his number two Maxim Barsky will formally propose to the board today that it is in TNK-BP's interests to pursue the Rosneft deal.

Raikes' troops were armed with two Maxim guns and a nine pounder cannon, and were stationed at the nearby customs house.

The Machine-Gun Section, with two Maxim Guns, had one officer, twenty-six otheranksks, twenty riding horses and sixteen draught horses.

With a complement of 27, the Belgians armed the ship with two Maxim machine guns on the bridge and a 47mm gun at the stern.

Bannon spent six years doing his best to live by Andrew Breitbart's two maxims: "Fuck you," and "War".

In dealing with customers, UCSB's food service relies on two maxims: (1) Don't focus on bad experiences (irate customers), but on the common ones.

Two maxims are widely accepted in knowledge-based markets: it pays to hit the market first, and it pays to have superb technology.

The experience ought to teach us that two maxims of so-called realist American foreign policy thinking from cold-war times need to be thrown in the trash.

"Two maxims," Epictetus said, "we must ever bear in mind that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence".

But the Union generals lacked Jackson's tactical genius, still celebrated today, which rested on two maxims: "Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy" and "never fight against heavy odds" if you can "hurl your own force on" the "weakest part of your enemy and crush it".

Begin with two maxims, one applicable to all survivalism, the other specific to marketeers' efforts to persuade survivalists.