Sentences with phrase «old axiom in»

To use an age - old axiom in the real estate industry, location certainly does matter.

There's an age - old axiom in Washington that goes, «Personnel is policy.»

Past performance is not a guarantee of future upward mobility, to paraphrase one of the oldest axioms in the financial and investment world.

One of the oldest axioms in investing is that risk and greater return are (or at least should be) inversely related.

Not exact matches

If he appears critical of contemporary Judaism, as in Mark 7, it is because he reasserts the fundamental axioms of the Old Testament in a radical way.

However, given the rate of growth in Premier League incomes, and since another old axiom of investment is that nothing can grow forever, it seems fair to assume that this will one day be looked back on as a Golden Age for English football.

In politics, there is an old axiom about news coverage: It doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right.

After all, most authors early on were advised of the old publisher's axiom that each equation cuts a book's sales in half.

At its heart, In Good Company is a love song to hoary old axioms concerning love, loyalty, and honour — its charms are old - fashioned and its bromides, if not entirely unexpected, are at least earned.

To dredge up on old but appropriate axiom in this case, sometimes you do end up throwing the baby out with the bath water.

For many investment pros, such realties mean that the old «100 minus your age» axiom puts investors in jeopardy of running low on funds during their later years.

This is where the old «let your profits run» axiom works: in trends.

That night, a sensuous cool breeze materialized like a gift from God and I was reminded of the old axiom, «the best things in life are free.»

Constructed in a 16 - bit world with an obvious reverent reference to older side - scrolling, platform - jumping games such as Metroid, Axiom Verge tells the story of a scientist who dies in an experiment gone awry, only to reawaken in an alien world with no knowledge of where he is, how he got there, and why the laws of physics do not seem to apply.

Explore every nook and cranny of an alien world, unlock a whole host of powerful weaponry and abilities and discover the truth in Axiom Verge, an old - school action - exploration game for Nintendo eShop on Wii U.

Axiom Verge is an action - platform - exploration game that's not only created in intricate detail in the style of classics such as Metroid, Contra, and Master Blaster, but uses old - school «glitches» as a gameplay feature.

All the new geometries, like the old, accepted one, were submitted to the rules of logic; in each geometry the new theorems had to be consistent with each other and with the axioms and postulates.

Paraphrasing what I've said on Twitter in one variation or another (reworking the old Indy 500 racetrack axiom about two kinds of drivers there, «those who've hit the wall and those who will hit the wall»):

The Economist adds that Axiom, which is now 11 years old, has been able to grow its revenue steadily as companies seek ways to trim their legal spending: from $ 55 million in 2008, to $ 80 million in 2010, to an expected $ 120 million in 2011.

We've talked a lot about trust here on Zen, and the old axiom that people do business with those they know, like and trust (in part, that's true, but Chance also emphasizes that they do business with whom it's easiest).

Carol, there's an element of truth in that old axiom.

Thanks for your kind comments, and great story — yes, while I didn't say outright in the piece that old axiom that buyers are liars, it is funny how the best - intended can work so hard, and lose a chance to help their clients when those very same clients do a 360.