This relationship was reflected in the design mottoes employed by many of the competing architects.
I gather it went in more for action than for mottoes.
But when it comes to distinguishing between violent mottoes carried by different individuals, that is another matter.
These are not simply the mottoes of the moment.
I do not like slogans and mottoes, but that one seems to express in excellent terms the present situation.
It is one of the mottoes of the retail trade, for example, that "the customer is always right".
Perhaps some of us may re-read the county mottoes dealing with service to mankind.
One of our mottoes used to be to the effect that our chief industries were copper, fish and tin.