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Meanings of maxim in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "saying"
Examples for "saying"
1
Of course Nice regrets saying no to a particular new pharmaceutical product.
2
Mbete was on stage earlier saying we need 'ten to 15 minutes'.
3
I kept saying, 'Yes, sir; sorry, sir,' trying to calm him down.
4
The judge hearing the case can protect consumers' wallets by saying so.
5
Thirty-two years later we are still saying almost ten years, he said.
1
Then the idea of durableness is thus expressed in a Wiltshire proverb:-
2
The 'if' in verse 31 weakens the strong assertion of the proverb.
3
And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
4
The eloquence of the last named was a proverb in his day.
5
The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks.
Usage of maxim in английском
1
In the twentieth chapter of Proverbs v. 17, we find the maxim:
2
Better late than never may be a maxim suitable to the circumstances.
3
His maxim, however, is one that all ministers for finance live by.
4
But through it all, one maxim remains vital for every decision desk.
5
This maxim was constantly borne in mind by himself and his colleagues.
6
Load your musket with this maxim, and smoke it in your pipe.
7
This is the universal Indian maxim from Nova Zembla to Cape Horn.
8
Explain the psychology of the maxim, we learn to do by doing.
9
This, the maxim illustrated respecting the isle toward which we were sailing.
10
On the notion of an interest is based that of a maxim.
11
Apply this maxim-youmay do it a thousand ways, especially in company.
12
No abstract maxim can help solve that problem: it requires living intelligence.
13
Franklin left us a maxim which is much to the point here.
14
It's a maxim worth remembering when setting out in the corporate world.
15
Consequently his readers confess that he has never forgot the Horatian maxim-
16
The old Roman maxim is not applicable to our effeminate, degraded people.
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Maxim through the time
Maxim across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common