The phrase "a rule that enabled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a specific rule that allowed or facilitated a particular action or outcome.
Example: "The new policy was a rule that enabled employees to work from home more effectively."
Alternatives: "a guideline that allowed" or "a regulation that permitted".
M.L.S. last year instituted a rule that enables each of its 13 teams to sign a player for any salary; the league pays only the first $400,000.
Earlier this month, an appeals court upheld most of the steps that the commission took in 2007 to loosen ownership rules, but it rejected on procedural grounds one rule that enabled more companies to own a newspaper and a station in the same local market.
This winter Ace's U.S.-based competitors raised a stink about a tax rule that enables a corporate parent in Bermuda to import premiums free of corporate income tax by reinsuring some policies sold by its American subsidiary.
The Bayesian model does not use a weighted scoring system, it uses a decision rule that enables the probability of morbidity in patients undergone CABG surgery to be assessed according to multivariate statistics of the predictor variables used for discrimination (12 variables were selected in our model).
First, regions of similar flood reactivity are delineated and a classification rule that enables the assignment of ungauged catchments to one of these reactivity regions is established.
The Probabilistic Meeting Rule is a flexible rule that enables us to model various scenarios and society forms.
Retaining Adu for the 2008 season also would have meant assigning him a designated player tag under a new M.L.S. rule that enables each of its 13 clubs to sign a player, either American or foreign, for any salary.
The Supreme People's Court of China respects such contractual freedom and adopts a choice-of-law rule that enables Chinese courts to enforce many ad hoc arbitration agreements.
The Insider column in Business Day on Dec. 9 about a securities law, known as the short-swing rule, that enables a company to sue certain major stakeholders for short-term profits if the investor bought and sold within a six-month period described that law imprecisely.
This season, M.L.S. instituted the rule that enables each of its 13 clubs to sign any player for any salary.
