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dictum - use in sentences
Preposition: that
- power: But where tried, democracy has proven the dictum that power tames.
Converse of object
- know: To quote the known dictum of a competent judge [ Dr. .
- follow: No wonder, even the United Nations has begun to follow the unwritten dictum.
- quote: In an oft quoted dictum he said Probably the most objectionable are found in the complex standard form conditions which are now so common.
- remember: Remember the ancient dictum: 'To thine own self be true ' .
- apply: It is therefore necessary to apply the dictum of Vinelott J referred to above.
- prove: But where tried, democracy has proven the dictum that power tames.
Converse of subject
- govern: In the end, I have been governed by a medical dictum.
Adjective modifier
- famous: How far from Freud's famous dictum can one get?
- own: It has also been noted that Kitchen does not consistently apply his own dictum.
- well-known: To that I can answer with the well-known dictum, " In the long run we all shall die.
- celebrated: What it needs is Ballard's celebrated dictum that the future is anything with a fin on it.
- ancient: Remember the ancient dictum: 'To thine own self be true ' .
Noun used with modifier
- obiter: Paragraph 62 is not only expressed conditionally but is also, strictly speaking, an obiter dictum.
Preposition: of
- right: Here is the traditional dictum of the political right, ' no rights without responsibilities and duties ' , turned on its head.
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