The phrase "a litany of rules" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a long list or series of rules, often implying that the list is tedious or overwhelming.
Example: "The new policy came with a litany of rules that employees were expected to follow without question."
Alternatives: "a series of regulations" or "a list of guidelines".
And any elementary school student can reel off a litany of arithmetic rules that mark off zero as special and strange.
And behind the corruption, he discovered, was a litany of unwritten rules amounting to a pervasive acceptance of the wrongdoing, even among those not on the take — a code of silence, called the blue wall, which was corroding morale.
These anarchists have invented a whole litany of rules that can never be broken.
During the three hours football players spend on TV every week actually playing, they are subject to a litany of strict equipment rules, making it look like they were just plucked off an assembly line.
"In an era of interstate banking, uniform regulation of consumer credit products at the federal level may well be more efficient than a litany of consumer protection rules that vary from state to state.
But New York has a hallowed history of persnickety cooks: Kenny Shopsin became something of a cult figure for the litany of rules — including no parties bigger than four, and no more than one order at each table of any particular dish — enforced for years at Shopsin's diner in the West Village, now a small outpost at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side.
The litany of rules in a Superior Court is meant to show respect to the institution but for members of the public, for members of my family, they were suffocating.
Since then Brazil has done far better than India in alleviating poverty, but in business terms it still has a Belindia problem: a handful of world-class enterprises in a sea of poorly run ones.Brazilian businesses face a litany of obstacles: bureaucracy, complex tax rules, shoddy infrastructure and a shortage of skilled workers to say nothing of a stagnant economy (see article).
Pai followed this questionable bit of crowing with a litany of vague reasons the new rules should be kept.
A Funny Way to Think About Cancer Assuming researchers can make sense of the litany of rules, regulations, maintain transparency and accountability as required, it is estimated that the two-year stimulus money will add or retain six to seven jobs for every grant funded, according to a 2008 NIH study.
