Sentence examples for antique rules from inspiring English sources

Many of the Senate's antique rules and precedents have been warped beyond recognition by the modern pressures of partisanship.

Overcoming their minority status, Republicans have increasingly used an antique rule to block nearly all of Mr Obama's agenda.

SOUTH AFRICANS have worked hard to dispel the impression that their 110-year-old stockmarket behaves according to antique frontier rules.

Under the new rules, only antique items more than 100 years old – such as a figurines or chess pieces – or objects containing relatively small amounts of ivory, such as pianos and other musical instruments, will be legal for sale.

Nostalgia rules on "Antiques Roadshow," Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on PBS.

Respecting one of the instrument's unwritten rules, he plays antique songs like "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "Tonight You Belong to Me" (you may remember Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters singing that one in "The Jerk").

Antique furniture was built according to rules of stability and utility, and "if an object fulfills its mission, the chances are that it is beautiful".

Barbara Pollack, an Americana dealer based in Highland Park, Ill., reiterated what most good dealers regard as the golden rule when considering an antique.

All types of motorcars sports cars, antiques, classics, stock cars participate under strict safety rules and regulations.

His few supporters argue that dealers are not obligated to disclose an antique's provenance to potential buyers: "Nowhere in the rules of antique furniture does it say you have to tell someone where an object came from.

He receives an antique postcard with a message in Bargetta's handwriting: "Rule No. 1: Don't think he's better than you are, and don't think he doesn't think that he is.