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This maxim was perhaps most apparent in May when the company announced it was going public.
The general maxim is that it is better for ten guilty men to go free than punish an innocent, and so we should oppose this change.
Appearances are deceptive and this maxim gets the full treatment at this point.
An oft-repeated maxim was that reason and justice are to be accorded more regard than mere texts.
The latter fail to decipher the real meaning of the Horatian maxim which Titus attaches to the gift.
But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott.
Perhaps, the gist of it all could be summed up in the old maxim that truth is stranger than fiction.
Well, here's the news that proves the maxim every cloud has a silver lining.
The maxim in English law presupposes a tortious act by the defendant.
And now one of the nastiest men in Russia, maxim Martsinkevich, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki concluded her speech with a maxim that rejected the empty promises of the world's adults.
Again we went on, and climbed the false immensity of another ridge, when several rifles and a maxim opened upon us, and very close they were.
This singer should heed the old maxim and not quit her day job.
The statesman's maxim shall be peace, and peace at any price.
Perhaps nothing articulates better the maxim that there is a place for everything, or the need for unfettered agency than the wisdom of the Igbo proverb with which I began.
And here yet another Ciceronian maxim was always ready to hand.
She felt a maxim cover would be too racy, but now she finds herself performing solo acts for fans on MyFreeCams.
The modern structures face the Thames and include an entry way that displays More's arms, heraldic beasts, and a Latin maxim.
A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim.
The other branch was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the Purse-strings.
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It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.
Willan, with all his erudition, was a dermatologist, and acted on the maxim that there is nothing like leather.
Disraeli's maxim of self-advancement was to make himself necessary by service in the sphere in which he found himself.
I have, however, a maxim of Thoreau which I furbish up for just such occasions.
We could get but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie.
My standpoint, moreover, requires me to admit the validity of the hypothesis of Descent as an heuristic maxim of natural science.
That a man is as old as his arteries is now recognized as an absolutely sure maxim of internal medicine.
The Hippocratic maxim was a step towards a correct solution of the therapeutical operations of remedial agents.
This expression has ever since held its place as a maxim of polite conversation.
Another maxim was, to keep Jemima ignorant of her own capacity, lest she should set up for a genius, and be undomesticated.
In this maxim our authors discover the foundation of the edifice of papal infallibility already laid.
The pertinence of this maxim to land purchase is proved by the reports of the Estates Commissioners.
Taking a hair of the dog that bit you was, however, a maxim with Salernitans for the cure of potation headaches.
Friendship with all, alliance with none, was the fundamental maxim of Rhodian policy, until subverted by Rome.
And utilitarianism, as we saw, admits this maxim no less than other systems of Ethics.
Its operation contradicts the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail.
This last maxim my father seemed to consider a settler in most alleged cases of cruelty.
We have a maxim in law, Colonel Sewell, Like case, like rule.
What a misleading maxim is that of the Romans, In vino veritas!
His maxim was, Behave well or behave ill, it is the duty of a master occasionally to whip a slave, to remind him of his master's authority.
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