Sentences with phrase «on old maxims»

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.»

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Like the old military maxim holds, an army marches on its stomach.

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».

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.

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 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.

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.

To paraphrase an old maxim, since they can't bang on the facts, they try to bang on the law.

The Singles model, instead, allows ProPublica to take a new twist on the old «diversify your assets» maxim: It's one more revenue stream for the outfit.

The old maxim, «Those who can't do, teach,» is far from the truth in Rezac's case: his sculptures on display in Address are exciting and mystifying.

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.»

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.