| This dictum makes a crucial distinction between the work that time or mischance has made a fragment, and the work composed as fragment. |
| In conjunction, increasingly in evidence are the effects predicted by the dictum that all wars are politics by other means. |
| Lord Acton's dictum that absolute power corrupts absolutely holds good today. |
| Here, for a quiet life, you have to apply the dictum of the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil. |
| It was yet another example of the old dictum that racing can be a very cruel sport. |
| The European project's founder Jean Monnet turned this into a dictum for the organisation of the European Union. |
