Sentences with phrase «great dicta»

Justice Stevens, the author of Gall, reveals yet again that he can give the defense bar lots of great dicta.

Learned Hand was expressing classic liberalism in his great dictum, «The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure it is right.»

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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.

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.

D. T. Niles's dictum that «evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find food» is quoted in the documents almost as often as the Great Commission itself!

In adopting Anselm's dictum that God is «that which none greater can be conceived,» they suggest that this means that God is the greatest power but not the only power; anything actual at all has some degree of power.

This rather enigmatic dictum could perhaps be interpreted in a number of ways, but we have the authority of the great medieval Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides to see the statement as a justification for natural law.

You consistently subordinate your empathy and reason to the arbitrary dicta of your capricious and cruel god thereby doing great harm to others all the while smugly convinced you're doing god's will.

There is a striking paradox in the fact that Christian fundamentalists, who believe in the Prince of Peace, and Jewish fundamentalists, who cite the rabbinic dictum that God's greatest gift to the world is peace, are noticeably absent from the various peace and antinuclear movements.

Our Seudat Hodaa brought together guests who traveled from literally all over the world, a deeply meaningful reunion that set in motion the great Six - Degrees - of - Separation dictum.

One might just as easily say that strong character makes great schools, rather like the famous dictum «manners maketh man» (Winchester, in the l5th century).

It was implicit in her reference to the dictum in Hamilton, that judges had «markedly undervalued» loss of society awards, that the Lord Ordinary was aware that judges required to view such claims as requiring greater awards and, in that sense, to treat them more seriously.

Here's the skeleton of the basic dictum: «[Good, lesser, small, bad][artists, poets, painters, musicians][copy, plagiarize, imitate, borrow], [great, mature][artists, poets, painters, musicians][steal, plagiarize].»

The great business dictums hold true ever the more ardently in most of BigLaw.

The court seems to be following Bennett J's dicta in McCartney v Mills McCartney and, the more inflated the budget, the greater the likelihood of it being pruned back.