(1) Even if what you were suggesting was true, you would merely be confirming an old moral truism that evil actions can have good consequences.

(2) It is a truism that rights and responsibilities go hand in hand.

(3) Most of us will see it as a truism but it is also a warning against the tendency of all of us, ethnobiologists are no exception, to get carried away.

(4) But, there is an old truism in public relations - you don't repeat the charges against you.

(5) In the end, though, it's that old truism about parental guidance that counts.

(6) It is a truism to say that fieldwork is a prerequisite to any sort of research on Neotropical birds.

(7) Let's put aside the obvious truism , applicable to both Old and New Media, that the value of a creative work increases as more people are exposed to it.

(8) It's an obvious truism but to succeed, the team's whole must exceed the sum of its parts.

(9) The truism that you get what you pay for

(10) It is a truism to say that humanity is gone out of journalism.

(11) It is a truism to say that we describe the world through the lens our own experience.

(12) An old truism about the perverse ways of big business surfaced again last week in the pages of the Financial Times.

(13) An old truism regarding alcoholism is that if someone close to you thinks it's a problem, it's a problem.

(14) Sometimes a truism can be proclaimed in a manner that makes it startling.

(15) The truism that you get what you pay for

(16) No one denies the truism that the dreamer cannot really connect his dream with his waking past, which is one reading of this response.

(17) It's a truism that as a general rule consumers seek bargains and businesses seek profits.

(18) Like other valid theorems, this is a truism , but it is not useless, for it helps in organising the argument.

(19) This episode reinforces that old truism that there are two sides to each story and that neither is all white or all black.

(20) I won't reveal any more of the plot than that, but if there's a moral to this story, it's that old truism that says that curiosity killed the cat.

(21) They are truisms though no less true because of that.

(22) More typically, philosophers accept the truistic dictum I articulated above, and then proceed to interpret it in terms that only make sense if the hydraulic conception is implicitly taken for granted.

(23) The proof of the Proposition shows that the common truisms are precisely the elements of and unions of elements of, so any commonly known event is the consequence of a common truism.

(24) Consider, however, the following four truisms about correlation.

(25) They were able to question the truisms that dominated British political thought, and thus set out in astonishingly new directions.

(26) No-one should argue against teaching future citizens to think critically and to subject orthodoxies and truisms to rigorous examination.

(27) So determinism would simply be the theory, truistic to many, that brain events are effects.

(28) The general idea that human rights are derived from the dignity of the person is neither truistic nor neutral.

(29) It's full of truisms , generalisations and nonsense.

(30) What I resolutely oppose is an unreflected resentment that offers no prospect for creativity or initiative, and contents itself with truistic descriptions of a necessarily inconsistent world.