Sentence examples for a rule called from inspiring English sources

But in 2000 the S.E.C. passed a rule called Regulation F.D., which required companies to disclose material information publicly or not at all.

So we have a rule called the control principle – the service who first obtains the intelligence has the right to control how it is used, who else it can be shared with, and what action can be taken on it.

This Book Will Save Your Life by AM Homes 372pp, Granta, £14.99 The online community Join Me has a rule called the "good fridays agreement", which orders every joinee to perform a random act of kindness every Friday.

Britain has taken a big step in this direction with a rule called FRS 17, and the result has been a move of pension fund assets out of equities into bonds, which offer a better match to the relatively fixed obligations of defined-benefit pensions.

In a sprawling mansion on Kenwood Avenue, Mr. Noyes and his followers, known as Perfectionists, practiced a radical lifestyle that involved communal child-rearing, a free-love arrangement known as "complex marriage" and a rule, called "coitus reservatus," that prohibited men from ejaculating during sex.

To put into motion a rule called Leg Before Wicket, in which a batsman is sent out because his leg is deemed to have unfairly prevented the ball from hitting the post behind him, members of the opposing team are first required to implore the umpire to make a ruling, which they do by yelling, "Howzat?" and possibly other words at him.

So many producers took a writing credit as a droit du seigneur for a few consultations or suggestions that the Screen Writers Guild later instituted a rule calling for compulsory arbitration whenever a producer sought a credit.

Inspectors were removed from the plant, now owned by Swift & Company, after they found evidence of fecal contamination, a violation of a rule calling for zero tolerance in processing.

And any part of it that you don't use yourself can be carried over by a spouse who survives you–a new rule called portability.

The row ended with Mr Coburn calling Mr Norquist "stupid".Republicans who want to keep their jobs do not, as a rule, call Mr Norquist that.

Judge Jackson had applied a legal rule called "per se analysis".