Sentence examples for applying a rule from inspiring English sources

- "I never make a mistake in applying a rule, since what I do defines the very rule".

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said "the difference between applying a rule and extending it is not always clear".

The Ethics Committee was apparently applying a rule in its ethics manual that imposes "a broad prohibition against members, officers or employees deriving financial benefit, directly or indirectly, from the use of their official position".

The Swedish detective is perhaps too boldly outlined in the opening episodes – her difference highlighted too quickly by writers wanting to make it clear she is not like everyone else: she changes her T-shirt in the middle of the office; makes late-night phonecalls without a thought; can't understand the concept of applying a rule sympathetically and sensibly.

When the court is applying a rule pursuant to its authority to interpret and apply the Constitution, Congress can come up with alternative ways to do it, but it is this court, under Marbury v. Madison and City of Boerne, that will ultimately decide whether the Constitution is satisfied...

If we obtained a relatively significant positive increment of F measure by applying a rule, the rule was kept.

The work in [8] whose aim is to diagnose problems at the cell level from traditional KPIs has been further investigated in [37] by employing call traces (as opposed to traditional KPIs) and applying a rule-based system to them.

Alejandro Drexler, Greg Fischer and Antoinette Schoar show that applying a rules-of-thumb approach to training microentrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic improved the business owners' financial practices and boosted their revenues.

Phillips and his fellow judges had declined to apply a rule laid down by the Strasbourg court and invited its judges to reconsider it.

The government's Supreme Court appeal, United States v. Cotton, No. 01-687, argued that the appeals court had erroneously applied a rule of automatic reversal.

The ECB could then apply a rule of "juste retour", ie, it reimburses the same amounts to each of these governments.