nostrums

Meaning

of Nostrum

Examples

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. Warren G. Harding

Fifty years from today, Americans will revere the name, 'Obama.' Because like his Canadian predecessors, he chose the tough responsibilities of national leadership over the meaningless nostrums of sterile partisanship that we see too much of in Canada and around the world. Brian Mulroney

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths. Gary Hamel