Israel s lightning victory recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

Syria s Assad dynasty, however, seems to believe that it can defy that dictum.

Both Jiang and Hu have faithfully followed Deng's dictum to Hide capacity and nourish obscurity.

I understand this timeless dictum as a statement about the problems, or more exactly the confusions, of consciousness.

You may have heard the military dictum for the gathering of armies March to the sound of the guns.

Urban s dictum contained a kernel of truth the Catholic Church played a major role in the rebellion against communism.

The 1967 war, however, represented an ominous watershed. Israel s lightning victory 160 recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

Moreover, following recent changes at the World Bank, the US is aiming to follow the classic doctor s dictum First, do no harm.

That dictum, of course, should apply to everyone. But tensions will inevitably arise if China has no say in the creation of these rules.

His predicament illustrates the common dictum in the politics of developing countries where rural electorates elect governments but urban elites get to throw them out.

The King, like Metternich and the Austrian Kaisers, understands de Tocqueville s dictum that the most dangerous moment for a regime is when it starts to reform.

The sad truth is that, in Russia, history does indeed repeat itself, but, in a twist on Karl Marx s dictum, as tragedy and farce at once.

PALO ALTO The current financial crisis in Europe providesa unique update to Lenin s dictum that nothing so destabilizes a country as a run on its currency.

The Bush administration s mistake, of course, is to neglect politics in its war calculations, or to follow blindly the dictum that war is politics by other means.

China miscalculated by deviating from the smart strategy of a rising power and violating Deng s dictum that China should proceed cautiously and skillfully keep a low profile.

Understanding Clausewitz s dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means, Sadat had sent the Egyptian Army across the Suez Canal in order to unleash a peace process.

First, apply the dictum of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) that it is better to let them do it than it is to try to do it better for them.

But even the Machiavellian dictum that a ruler should encourage his citizens fear rather than their love can go only so far. The most successful political leaders are skilled coalition builders.

I have here with me a dictum from social anthropology that I guard closely you learn a lot about any culture by the list of things that it is shocked by.

Additionally, we have incorporated in this Report, to the extent possible, valuable input from the National Commission for Human Rights, the dictum of which was asked for, according to statutory regulations.

Across the Asia Pacific region, China s rise is viewed as a welcome development, but one that requires China to play within internationally accepted rules. That dictum, of course, should apply to everyone.

Eudoxus of Cnidus, who worked with Plato, developed a less mythical, more mathematical explanation of the planets' motion based on Plato's dictum stating that all phenomena in the heavens can be explained with uniform circular motion.

MADRID The English author and priest William Ralph Inge once said that A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. Syria s Assad dynasty, however, seems to believe that it can defy that dictum.

Keynes's dictum has become the ruling wisdom of monetary policy (one of his few to survive). Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the animal spirits of businessmen and shoppers.

Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patterns of stress, relaxation and focus. At TEDxToronto Ariel Garten shows how looking at our own brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient dictum know thyself.