“In conjunction, increasingly in evidence are the effects predicted by the dictum that all wars are politics by other means.”

“Apparently, the new dictum in the National Party is that if women members disagree with their leader, they are gone by lunchtime.”

“Mr Morris emphasised the importance of a consensus between the three parties being reached, rather than a ministerial dictum imposed.”

“It reversed Judge Newcomer, and noted that federal judges should not take Supreme Court dicta lightly.”

“Barbauld's revisions constitute a methodical and quite radical intervention in authoritative Johnsonian dicta on novels and their readers.”

“The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill.”

“Yet feminism is regarded by all parties as a philosophy based on Panglossian fortune-cookie dictums.”

“The provincial governments are not far behind in their slavish adherence to the OECD's dictums on how to run your government.”

“This book deserves to be widely read, especially among those who have regularly been subjected to Thomas Friedman and company's dictums.”