Major Heist, a rule-bound officer, was in charge.
In Hong Kong, even when it was a rule-bound British colony, concubines were legal until 1971.
As in any adolescent subculture, homeboy desi life is a rule-bound affair.
A critical survival skill in a rule-bound society is to know how to break the rules.
Your belief in a rule-bound universe was what gave you, an outsider, a claim to real expertise.
But how can the extreme openness and decentralisation Shirky and Leadbeater prize survive in such a rule-bound climate?
She's trailer trash, with a mother (Mila Jovavich) who's about to marry a rule-bound Mormon (William H. Macy).
China, however, is a rule-bound terrain on which rational technocracy is prized more than conceptual adventurism.
If it is possible to write and appreciate poetry and literature in as rule-bound a language as Sanskrit, surely it is possible to do so in code.
One of his more recent pieces, "Sider," is a large-scale ensemble work in which his dancers — some wearing Elizabethan ruffs, others hoods — manipulate large cardboard panels, scrambling and weaving through an unsettling, rule-bound universe, occasionally speaking in a mysterious language of familiar rhythms.
They are rule-bound varieties of language just like the standard is, with the main difference that they're not written down as often and have historically lacked prestige.
