The phrase "accept a rule" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of agreeing to follow a specific guideline or regulation.
Example: "In order to participate in the competition, all contestants must accept a rule that prohibits outside assistance."
Alternatives: "adhere to a rule" or "acknowledge a rule".
Members of religious communities generally accept a rule of life that emphasizes humility and the renunciation of worldly goods and pleasures.
The N.H.L. Players Associationn, which has resisted a visor requirement, indicated its members might be willing to accept a rule with a grandfather clause.
None of this is made any easier by the fact there seems to be nothing except peer pressure to force any regulator to accept a rule favored by the other regulators.
But, after five years of this work, the founders were obliged to accept a rule of strict enclosure, or cloistered life, which at the time was considered an indispensable adjunct of the religious life for women.
It was not until the 17th century that the attorneys and solicitors were expelled from the Inns and the division between advocate and attorney became rigid, and not until the 18th century did the barristers accept a rule that they would function only upon being engaged by an attorney not upon being retained directly by a client.
For such reasons, some rule utilitarians conclude that it would not maximize utility for people generally to accept a rule that allows doctors to transplant organs from unwilling donors.
These results are consistent with the generally accepted "A-rule", namely that most replicative pols preferentially incorporate dAMP opposite an abasic site.
We thus accepted a rule that maximised sensitivity and specificity at the expense of not achieving 100% sensitivity.
Suppose people generally accepted a rule that allows a doctor to transplant organs from a healthy person without consent when the doctor believes that this transplant will maximize utility.
Thus, instead of asking, "What would happen if everybody did that?", rule consequentialists should ask, "What would happen if everybody were permitted to do that?" People are permitted to do what violates no accepted rule, so asking what would happen if everybody were permitted to do an act is just the flip side of asking what would happen if people accepted a rule that forbids that act.
An individual may know and may even accept a moral rule, such as, say, it is wrong to cheat the customs.
