Sentences with phrase «old maxim»
The phrase "old maxim" refers to a well-known saying or principle that has been around for a long time and has been widely accepted as true or wise. Full definition
Scientists are discovering a huge number of proteins that shape - shift to do their work, upending a century - old maxim of biology.
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Companies» legal counsel and advisers, who perhaps were trained during the cyanide - in - Tylenol days, fall back on old maxims that no longer apply — such as «We will not comment on an ongoing investigation» or «We'll inform the public as soon as when know the complete facts.»
The decades - old maxim states that you can withdraw 4 % of your nest egg each year after you retire and you'll never run out of money.
Finney talks about how he got his start and what he has learned while transitioning from being an employee to a business leader — how old maxims that he once considered tired and overused now seem more relevant to him.
but now that I think about it, they may have actually stumbled into the exception to the other old maxim «Win your division games; get into the playoffs» as I believe they went 6 - 0 in the division and still missed the playoffs.
Politics does entail the slow and messy business of public debate; however if we take «politics» out of the famous old maxim, we are left only with «war.»
That hoary old maxim «write what you know» is brilliantly picked apart in the Coens» first golden - age Hollywood adventure.
Companies» legal counsel and advisers, who perhaps were trained during the cyanide - in - Tylenol days, fall back on old maxims that no longer apply — such as «We will not comment on an ongoing investigation» or «We'll inform the public as soon as when know the complete facts.»
There's an old maxim that corporations don't fail, boards do.
As the old maxim goes, no plan survives the first contact with the enemy.
One guide to right conduct which has been of great help to me is the old maxim, «So act that you can will the principle of your act to be law universal.»
There's the old maxim to «play things safe,» and then there's the Lutheran version that gets a little nervous about the «play» part.
Among the many oddities of the present circumstance is that a new twist is being given to the old maxim, Hate the sin but love the sinner.
And from this point of view the old maxim laborare est orare (work is prayer) takes on a new meaning.
There is an old maxim that the Queen's command follows the Queen's pence.
There is an old maxim of the Church which expresses this idea: lex orandi lex credendi — the rule for praying is the rule for believing.
The old maxim, «No salvation outside the church» is beaten into our brains to the point where we believe it.
This sea change in household composition during the past twenty - five years explains why the old maxim «A rising tide lifts all boats» - used so effectively by John F. Kennedy in 1962 - no longer seems to work.
There's the old maxim that people place their faith in — «Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
The old maxim lex orandi lex credendi — as we pray so we believe — still holds true.
Book X, which many regard as descriptive of Confucius and so the most revealing of all the Confucian literature as to his personal characteristics, is held by Waley to be a compilation of old maxims on ritual.
vi) The old maxim that the impact of referees decisions even themselves out over the season is not valid and did not help our cause in the title race.
The old maxim» give the people bread and circuses» still applies!
juan cuadrado is would be comparable to walcott only he has able to go past players which suggest he has better end product but why buy him when we could introduce r.nelson and by doing this we apply the old maxim that «if they're good enough they are old enough» — this young man plays without fear.
For a start, Antonio Conte chose to make six changes from the side that won 3 - 2 at Southampton on Saturday to make a mockery of the old maxim of never tinkering with a winning team.
Clearly not wedded to the old maxim that you don't criticise your players in public, RB coach, Ralph Hasenhüttl — who up until last summer was Ingolstadt's inspirational boss — accused his young team of «allowing our opponents to force their game on us» and not being brave enough.
On the other hand, I'm reminded of the old maxim that if you owe the bank a thousand dollars that's your problem, but if you owe the bank a million dollars then that's the banks problem.
While having once forgotten the old maxim that the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marx, Tony Blair appears, since leaving office, to have repented of his coyness about «doing God».
Cuomo is very risk averse, and a big believer in the old maxim about being sure you're going to kill a bear before you fire a shot at it.
There's an old maxim in politics that Nick Clegg knows all too well: attack is the best form of defence.
«Truth to age - old maxim «work hard, play hard».»
It's an old maxim of business: People leave employers because of bad managers.
The most recent research confers molecular respectability upon Harvey's old maxim.
At my advanced age, I can only hope that the old maxim about it never being too late is true.
The old maxim «Behind every great man there is a great woman» is about as relevant as the sanitary belt.
While the film doesn't span decades, but instead concentrates on a moretightly prescribed patch of time in Darwin's life, it still proves true an old maxim regarding cinematic postscripts: the more you feel it necessary to say in pre-end credit crawl text, the less you've probably said during the entire rest of your movie's running time.
The old maxim of not working with kids and animals is expanded herein to Levys and hydraulic cannons.
While the film doesn't span decades, but instead concentrates on a more tightly prescribed patch of time in Darwin's life, it still proves true an old maxim regarding cinematic postscripts: the more you feel it necessary to say in pre-end credit crawl text, the less you've probably said during the entire rest of your movie's running time.
It's a film concerned with the unexpected consequences to the best intentions; the old maxim about the road to Hell is literalized in this exceptional procedural.
The title is allegedly a reference to the old maxim that «the devil is in the details.»
Their lustful liaison was proof of the age - old maxim that politics makes strange bedfellows, literally and figuratively, for she was a conservative, Christian fundamentalist who prevailed upon her well - connected boy - toy to get the CIA to intervene in the Middle East conflict in the name of freedom of religion.
In the end Jarhead may not say anything more profound to say about contemporary warfare beyond the old maxim about war being hell.
It is hard to argue with the age - old maxim that «experience is the best teacher.»
To paraphrase an old maxim, since they can't bang on the facts, they try to bang on the law.
This old maxim seems completely relevant when the market place seems like a contradiction.
The old maxim is more valid than ever.
IN 1952, A YOUNG GRADUATE STUDENT named Harry Markowitz wrote a paper that sought to prove, mathematically, the old maxim «don't put all your eggs in one basket.»
The old maxim is certainly true — prevention of infestation is certainly better than trying to treat an existing problem.
Everyone's heard the old maxim that you can't take care of anyone else unless you take care of yourself.