Sentences with phrase «old maxim of»

As we reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly, of the Internet the old maxim of the only thing that does not change is death and taxes.

Indeed, this last example might tend to evoke the old maxim of writing coaches «Show me, don't tell me.»

Luckily, this is one of those scenarios well - covered by the old maxim of «when there's a will, there's a way.»

It's an old maxim of business: People leave employers because of bad managers.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

God created Adam as a mature man, he did the same with the earth.how old is a mature earth?billions or trillions of years.a science maxim, things go from order to disorder.yet the complexities of man (DNA) and the earth (water) became complex over time.more than doubtful.

On the one hand the maxim, «The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants», was construed in a way which demanded that equal and absolute authority should be accorded to every part of the Old and New Testaments indiscriminately, since it was all «verbally inspired».

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.»

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.

(3) The old way of stating the principle that the internal coherence of Scripture should be a heuristic maxim for interpreters was to require that the analogy of Scripture be observed.

(Would he apply this maxim to all fields of knowledge or only to the Old Testament?

The author compares Old Testament wisdom tradition with parallels in the Telugu tradition, including proverbs, sayings, maxims, epigrammes, and books of fables, and concludes with great appreciation of the Indian wisdom tradition.

The old scholastic maxim — «being is received in the mode of the recipient» - holds good here.

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.

And in doing so, he proves one of the oldest footballing maxims of all: letting a gentle return header run under your fingers and into the net is one thing, but letting a gentle return header run under your fingers and into the net while you're wearing a giant yellow advert on your arse is quite another.

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.

Welbeck's miss convinced the Old Trafford hierarchy he wasn't the dependable striker the club needed; Savage's voicemail gave Keane the impression of a self - indulgent buffoon — living proof of the great Pulp Fiction maxim that «just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character».

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.

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.»

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».

Without re-hashing the arguments for and against a wholly appointed chamber, those who seek change in the name of `' modernity» and so - called `' democracy» should take heed of the old Conservative maxim, «to change what is worst and conserve what is best».

There's an old press secretary maxim: If there's a story about bad news, stay out of it at all costs.

His beginnings as a runner under the training of his older brother, who gives him the «if you can take it, you can make it» maxim.

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.

A Texas charmer in the role of a deranged, charismatic cop is a nice, bold change for the 42 - year - old star who first gained attention and broke hearts in 1993 as the Dazed and Confused dude with the maxim, «You just got ta keep livin» man, L - I - V - I - N.»

by Walter Chaw The old showbiz maxim of never working with children or animals is one violated with such regularity that I guess the otherwise sensible and talented Jason Alexander could be forgiven for Dunston Checks In.

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 left to a refreshingly diverse international cast of consummate professionals — led, once more, by an increasingly disconsolate - looking Tom Hanks — to breathe what conviction they can into this hoary material, but the result still gives the lie to the old industry maxim that great cinema can spring from trash literature.

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.

(To be fair, this is the modern actor version of the old Ghostbusters maxim, «When someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes!»)

There are legions of maxims in the living lore of our common culture, and many, like the Golden Rule, bear a moral message: «Two wrongs don't make a right» (ancient Scots); «You are only as good as your word» (early American); «Honesty is the best policy» (Cervantes, Ben Franklin); «It's better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness» (old Chinese proverb).

The writer's maxim is the opposite of the old carpenter's maxim: you should write it once, and use it twice — or even more!

Adhering to the old writer's maxim of «show, don't tell,» Michael critiques pre-submitted examples to demonstrate the good and the bad of author websites.

This is fancier way of repeating the old trader's maxim to never try and catch a falling knife.

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.

There is a old law maxim, «Ignorance of the law is no excuse.»

The old maxim is certainly true — prevention of infestation is certainly better than trying to treat an existing problem.

Most training should be conducted as early as possible (there is a grain of truth in the old maxim «an old dog can't learn new tricks»).

The title of Hal Foster's new book Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency is drawn from an oft - quoted maxim of Bertolt Brecht's: «Don't start with the good old days, but the bad new ones.»

Alison and Peter Klein's collection contains more than 1,400 works of contemporary photography, painting, and aboriginal art, but apart from their focus on these three categories, the couple clings to the old maxim «Buy what you love.»

Using the old maxim that «the problem is the solution,» this design captures stormwater runoff — usually a cause of soil erosion — and turns it into an abundant resource for times of scarcity.

The old maxim that one should think before he or she speaks (or tweets) applies no less to the internet than it applies to other forms of communication.

The old law firm maxim that «no news is good news» simply does not work anymore and is, in fact, a fail - safe way of having associates walk out the door «out of the blue.»

In all cases and especially those where the «at fault party's» insurance policies are limited you will need the help of an experienced child accident injury lawyer to help you quantify these claims in order to maxim the benefits available to the child as they grow older.

«The old and familiar maxim in Bacon's Legal Maxims - De fide et officio judicis iton recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia, sive sit error juris, sive facti - expresses the distinction with reference to «due process of law» in the fourteenth amendment between the right of litigants in state courts in cases arising under the local state law to have the local state law administered judicially and not arbitrarily, and their right to have free, fair and impartial state tribunals.

And, «What strikes me throughout these issues is the extent to which your gang ignores the old maxim, «A problem can not be solved by the kind of thinking that created it».»