Sentences with phrase «dictum when»

«Adopt Ronald Regan's famous dictum when working with your broker: «trust but verify,» Rebitzer advises.

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But according to Burkeman, when the same guys who conducted the research on which Malcolm Gladwell based his famous dictum studied the schedules of violinists, they found a hard limit on each practice session.

Think of it as another way to follow Ernest Hemingway's famous dictum on writing: «The best way is always to stop when you are going good.»

The only real progress on the Bacardi deadline is made at the very end of the episode when a starry - eyed Peggy dismisses the guys and heads into her office with a Dicta Phone and a germ of an idea.

That old dictum seems relevant at a moment when the markets are a paradox: Each new high only makes many veteran investors more nervous that...

It is the wise male politician who observes the following dictum: when hiring a female assistant or constituency manager, pick a matronly grandmother type and reject at all costs the young and pulchri...

William McChesney Martin's famous dictum that it is the job of central bankers «to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going» is an early recognition of the need for monetary policy to be forward looking — and perhaps a reminder that acting in a timely fashion is not always easy.

The subject of the Commentary article was the collapse of Communism, but we fear Mr. Harries» secularist obiter dictum fares no better when applied to innumerable other instances of great historical change.

Such faith in advertising is even more amazing when one considers economist John Kenneth Galbraith's dictum that the basic purpose of advertising is to get people to buy something they don't need.

Now when Jesus, the obscure ethnic man, rose from the dead and continued to teach his followers, he left them with one dictum: Matthew 28:19.

They have oscillated in practice between radical centralization and tolerance of relative decentralization (in the form of producer Soviets and compulsory co-operatives when these served a political purpose), but they have never put the social principle above the political nor attempted to realize Marx's dictum that the new society will be gestated in the womb of the old.

Moreover, when Roe is read with Doe, third - trimester restrictions are effectively ruled out as well — for Roe's dictum that such restrictions might be permissible if they did not interfere with the mother's health was negated by Doe's definition of «health» as «well - being.»

For the most part, secular commentators in the press and academy have shown themselves to be well out of their depth even when addressing their own religious traditions, and the political naivete displayed by religious commentators has only reinforced Burke's famous dictum that «politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.»

The late Professor Bosanquet, who had drunk deeply from classic sources, saw this so clearly and expressed it so tersely that his dictum is here repeated: «Christianity is the form in which the progressive civilization of Greece and Rome expressed its tendencies when time and experience had partly matured them.»

But both definitions run afoul of Stephen Neill's oft - quoted dictum, «When mission is everything, mission is nothing.»

Thus, Whitehead points out, the ontological principle «underlies Descartes» dictum: «For this reason, when we perceive any attribute, we therefore conclude that some existing thing or substance to which it may be attributed is necessarily present.»»

When the Russians got beaten not long ago, the home team Czech fans boldly sent the losers off the rink with Lenin's dictum of «Learn, learn, learn» ringing to the rafters.

Gentle Birth employs wellness promotion, integrative health care modalities, and responsiveness to the unique physiology unfolding in the mother and baby in all aspects of perinatal care, and follows the dictum, «First, Do No Harm» when considering any intervention.

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.

When the first of «three sophisticated experiments» designed to test the effectiveness of marriage programs aimed at low - income couples was evaluated and reported on by Mathematica, the Rossi dictum again prevailed: «[Building strong families] did not make couples more likely to stay together or get married... it did not improve couple's relationships.»

Few follow Buffett's dictum, «Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.»

It is only when the semantic fabric of advertising is caught with it's collective «pants down» and the advertisement is missing when McLuhan's dictum The Medium is the Message can truly be tested and explored.

It must have been when I said that you follow Dick Cheney's dictum, that «we create our own reality».

(A dictum of Extreme Programming, which was a major component of Agile when it emerged as a buzzword in the early 00s.)

Finally, the Court considered, obiter dicta, whether a DPA could exercise its supervisory and sanctioning powers under Article 28 of the Directive when the law applicable to data processing was the law of another Member State.

But it is not as persuasive when the dictum is from the highest court in the jurisdiction, unless the court's composition has changed since the prior decision.

This argument is especially effective when the dictum is from an intermediate appellate court.

Prior to the time when the First Amendment was held applicable to the States by reason of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth, the Court at least by obiter dictum approved State Sunday laws on three occasions: Soon Hing v. Crowley, 113 U. S. 703, in 1885; Hennington v. Georgia, 163 U. S. 299, in 1896; Petit v. Minnesota, 177 U. S. 164, in 1900.

Whether or not one treats the majority opinion's public forum analysis of social networks as «dicta» (which is legalese for «stuff in an opinion I don't like so I don't consider binding»), all 8 Supreme Court justices agreed that subscribers have a First Amendment right to access information and speak online, and that the government can not prohibit a person from accessing content that has nothing to do with preventing repeat offenses — even when the repeat offense is child molestation, and the evidence arguably supported that child molesters were particularly prone to repetition.

In my view, the Supreme Court of Canada can not be taken to have overruled an established line of authorities involving s. 91 (24), including Derrickson, when making comments in obiter dicta on another topic and without mentioning the authorities.

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.»

We know them as judicial dicta; when they are wholly off the point at issue we call them obiter dicta — words dropped along the road, wayside remarks.

By dicta in David M., the Court has implied that site of residence is with the prerogative of the custodial parent when it remarked that»... the parent who receives custody is primarily responsible for making decisions concerning the child and for providing the child's permanent home.»

In any event, the statement is dictum, since the case turned on the corollary rule that modification of custody may be ordered when the custodial parent has moved for the purpose of frustrating contact between the child and the noncustodial parent.