Sentence examples for absurd rules from inspiring English sources

Gilbert's obsessions inform all these operas, his greatest being the arbitrary nature of society's absurd rules and regulations.

Prandelli hit out at the "absurd" rules that allow water breaks only if the temperature hits a specified level.

Life is a wondrous game, it suggests, but the absurd rules can't be changed or understood.This underlying darkness bubbles to the surface when Chloe contracts a mysterious illness on her honeymoon with Colin.

Hostilities between India and Pakistan, clashes between their armies on the Line of Control, and rigid, absurd rules have destroyed the trade across the Line of Control and led to massive losses for Kashmiri traders.

The front-runner and supposed moderniser, Ségolène Royal, has criticised the absurd rules on a 35-hour working week but only for giving employers too much power over workers.

They were loners bucking the system, struggling with a bureaucracy that saddled them with absurd rules and clashing with superiors who could be counted on, about halfway through a given episode, to bark, "You're off the case".

The absurd rule is one American actor in the West End for one British actor on Broadway.

This, Colonel Colwell noted, is an "absurd" rule, unless the government is improperly monitoring the conversations, contrary to its claims.

In 1787, when the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention adopted the absurd rule of two senators per state regardless of population, it almost broke Madison's heart.

I have a hard, possibly absurd rule about vintage clothing: I won't buy something I, or my imagined self, wouldn't have worn in its original time period.

As for results night, France clearly has some thinking to do about the absurd rule preventing the publication, in any form, of exit-poll results before 8pm, despite the fact that most polling stations close at 6pm.