The phrase "appeal to the rule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is referencing a specific rule or guideline to support an argument or decision.
Example: "In this case, we must appeal to the rule that states all submissions must be made by the deadline."
Alternatives: "refer to the rule" or "invoke the rule".
There was no appeal to the rule of law.
But the appeal to the rule of law cuts both ways, because the United States's surrender treaty with Hong Kong has an exception for political offenses.
As daunting as it is for harassment victims to seek redress in the civilian workplace, they can still appeal to the rule of law in the face of cultural barriers to equality.
We evaluate whether discontinuing constitutive treatment with VS and CS medical devices, a life-terminating act in these two cases, is either physician-assisted death or death justified by an appeal to the rule of allowing the patient to die.
Hume admits, however, that one should be cautious in applying and extending the seventh rule because one cannot extrapolate from a "few experiments" (1.3.15.9; he appeals to the rule at Treatise 2.2.8.4).
Appeals to the rule of law are--and ought to be--a fixture of American political life.
He appealed to the rules committee the 5 that went up on the scoreboard, then eagled the 475-yard 13th hole.
Singer and Blackburn support their readings by appeal to the Golden Rule "Do as you would be done by", even though the only thing Kant says about this rule is that he rejects it: Kant [1997]: 38, footnote.
Appeal to this rule begs the question raised by the first sentence of article 57.1, which states that "the IHR and other relevant international agreements should be interpreted so as to be compatible".
The court, which also would hear an appeal to the position limits rule, is friendly turf for Wall Street, tossing out S.E.C. rules six times in seven years.
In a remarkably muted response to the limits on superintendents' salaries, Richard Bozza, the executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, appealed to the principle of home rule.
