Sentences with phrase «dictum against»

The Hippocratic dictum against prescribing a deadly medicine has subsequently been set aside by initiative in the state of Washington, by legislative act in Vermont, and by court edict in Montana and New Mexico.

Not exact matches

But Barr vitiates his own potentially formidable case against Childs by continually allowing himself to be diverted from the great hermeneutical issues to attack Childs for this or that comment, some of them mere obiter dicta.

Just as I've never heard a sermon against Cretans, I've also never heard a sermon on 1 Timothy 2:8, in which Paul tells Timothy, «I want men everywhere to pray, lifting holy hands without anger or disputing» that included a universal dictum that all men everywhere must raise their hands whenever they pray.

Echoing St. Francis» dictum, «It is not fitting when in God's service to have a gloomy face or a chilling look,» Francis exhorts his audience on the need for cheerful stewardship and against the dangers of «spiritual Alzheimer's» as the camera lingers on one ashen, unsmiling visage after another.

But, before we proceed to examine this part of the case, it may be proper to notice an objection taken to the judicial authority of this court to decide it, and it has been said that, as this court has decided against the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court on the plea in abatement, it has no right to examine any question presented by the exception, and that anything it may say upon that part of the case will be extrajudicial, and mere obiter dicta.

One reasonable interpretation of that dicta is to recognize the right of the KBA to proceed immediately against a Judge who has been convicted of a criminal offense.