Sentences with phrase «dictum about»

The undiscovered territory, to my mind, is in the area of preventive law — helping clients avoid legal problems rather than responding to them after they've occurred, in the manner of Richard Susskind's famous dictum about placing a fence at the top of a cliff rather than an ambulance at the bottom.

That remains as good, and unresolved, a question as ever, and I hope those exploring it, whatever their values and world views, keep in mind Steve's dictum about separating science from preference and also his constant reminder that uncertainty is a form of information, not ignorance — and never an excuse for inaction.

With that in mind, I think it's worth including a section I cut from my Monday post — a section I held off running at the time following Mark Twain's dictum about the value of «unsent letters.»

And both aspire to that old Bungie gaming dictum about offering 30 seconds of fun, and then repeating it over and over.

Alfred North Whitehead's dictum about the virtues and dangers of simplicity helps explain why we are confused about what kind of evidence should be used to guide education policy.

If you re-read the final scenes between Winston Smith and Julia from Nineteen Eighty - Four and then watch this scene, you can have your own version of Marx's dictum about history as tragedy, then farce.

Instead, it's further proof of veteran screenwriter William Goldman's famous dictum about Hollywood: «Nobody knows anything.»

During one of his sermons, he paraphrases F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum about the sign of a fine mind being the ability to hold two competing ideas at the same time.

In all systems, whether pertaining to insects or mammals, they found a strong positive correlation between predator removal, plant community simplification, and reduced energy flow, which goes back to Paine's dictum about being able to change the world by removing one species.

Siemon - Netto thinks Troeltsch the main culprit, though he has been abetted by those like Reinhold Niebuhr who uncritically took over Troeltsch's dictums about Luther.

One last thing before signing off: the task force adds a little obiter dicta about «numbers in the profession,» which is a nice way of referring to those lawyers who are already in the lifeboat turning around and saying «No more!

In the task force's view, further limiting numbers who may gain access to the profession is not a reasonable or indeed viable option, for myriad reasons... One last thing before signing off: the task force adds a little obiter dicta about «numbers in the profession,» which is a nice way of referring to those lawyers who are already in the lifeboat turning around and saying «No more!

Not exact matches

You want to have a can - do attitude about work, but maybe 2017 wasn't exactly a shining example of finding a balance between accepting every dictum from on high and coming across as rude, difficult, or just slightly coffee - deprived in these situations.

Michael Greeley, a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, says that founders should follow one dictum that applies to all aspects of a company's self - presentation, no matter what the medium: «Be very judicious about what you put out.»

A professor of economics who worked for many years on Wall Street, where you don't succeed if you don't grasp Marx's dictum that capitalism is about exploitation.

One question was seldom in the foreground: What had become of the old counsellors» dictum that «about half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would - be clients that they are damned fools and should stop»?

, Gerard McKay's ongoing concern about the trustworthiness, perhaps even the orthodoxy of any text that cites Tertullian's famous dictum «the flesh is the hinge of salvation» (caro cardo salutis est) is surely misplaced (Letters, Nov - Dec 07).

Consequently, whatever reservations we may have about Paul Tillich's dictum that «God is being - itself, not a being,» we can only concur in its essential point about the uniqueness of God.

That, regrettably, is typical of a large book that largely consists of obiter dicta strung along a schema of just about everything that has ever been said about Christianity.

As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher truth than «the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

I grew up in a time and place where the attitude toward crying even among normal parents could be summed up by the dictum, «Quit your crying,» and «I'll give you something to cry about.»

This refers to a supposed dictum from the legendary former spin doctor about how long a story must remain in the headlines before its victim is finished.

It was about 20 years ago that this dictum came down from the major supplier of malpractice / liability insurance and there were no formal protocol, articles or information to counter the traditional handling approach.

The dictum «don't train before 6 months of age» doesn't make any sense unless you're talking about the correction involved in formal obedience training.

- A radio commentary quoting one of the less - familiar dictums of Adam Smith, who is best known for championing economic growth, but in this case was warning about too much of a good thing.

There is more talk than usual in this decision about what is ratio and what is obiter dictum — likely as a way of avoiding the logic of Delgamuukw (at para 135).

This wasn't necessary for the holding in this case, which was about whether the person was a citizen, so this could be considered dicta.

Longmore and McFarlane LJJ said: «While we would not wish to incorporate all the learning about wasted costs orders into decisions under CPR part 27.14 (2)(g), we think that the above dictum should give sufficient guidance on the word «unreasonably» to district judges and circuit judges dealing with cases allocated to the small claims track.

For example, what was once merely a shard of interpretive dicta in an earlier Supreme Court decision may morph into the holding of another case years later, suggesting a story arc about the meaning of the Constitution serendipitously rediscovered in the reverberations of a different time.

The fact that the ECJ in the Cremonini case accepted the use of technical standards for legislative purposes without expressing obiter dictum any doubt about its legality, indicated the Court's indirect support for this regulatory strategy.

But for many, the answer was akin to the famous dictum from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when writing about pornography, «I know it when I see it.»

The federal Liberal government's stated intention to bring about electoral «reform» without a referendum brings to mind Lord Acton's famous dictum: «Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

That way you will attract candidates who care about what they do vs how much they make and about how politically correct they are in compliance with top - down mandated dictums from agency talking - heads like the befuddled Competition Bureau mandarins.