Examples of dictum

• He minimizes the difficulties of identifying the 'correct' monetary aggregate and ignores the instability of monetarist dicta on technical issues.

• Certainly, subordinating local definitions to the dictum of the science of race required negotiation, and in some cases even training.

• I suppose this simply reinforces the familiar dictum that 'we like what we know'.

• We must learn to see in perspective before we can draw using its dicta, and even then our view is skewed by optical bias.

• This dictum was to remain the evocation of the archaeological ideal of scientific common sense for a long time.

• Therefore, the abiding dictum of all politics was that nothing must be done that might disturb this so-called balance of communities.

• The force of these potentially radical principles was blunted by turning them into dicta.

• And the well-known dictum 'each word has its own history' will have to be a guiding principle in this endeavour.