The phrase "as a method of rule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a particular approach or strategy employed in governance or leadership.
Example: "The dictator implemented strict censorship as a method of rule to maintain control over the population."
Alternatives: "as a means of governance" or "as a strategy for leadership".
It's been seldom used for decades but the current administration has been very free with it as a method of squelching rules passed in the twilight of the Obama era.
Now the administration is pushing to use this concept as a tool for regulation, and as a method of avoiding more heavy-handed rule making.
The one-child policy was first implemented in 1979 as a method of curbing population growth, though the rules have been relaxed in recent years and certain regions and ethnic groups were exempt.
The one-child policy was first implemented in 1979 as a method of curbing population growth, though the rules have been relaxed in recent years, and certain regions and ethnic groups were exempt.
The government issues a rule that says certain doctors in certain clinics are not allowed to discuss abortion as a method of family planning.
Utilize texting as a method of informing.
While students of totalitarianism talked of terrorism as its method of rule, representatives of totalitarian regimes, sensitive to the pejorative connotation of the word, portrayed the practice as defense of the state from internal enemies.
Democrats in the Senate are using the CRA as a potential method of removing the rules the FCC voted for in December and returning to 2015's Open Internet Order and strong net neutrality rules.
Kuhn challenged the traditional view of scientific method as a set of rules, claiming that the standards of theory appraisal, such as simplicity, accuracy, consistency, scope and fruitfulness (1977, 322), depend on and vary with the currently dominant paradigm.
A level-set method is employed as an alternative approach to the popular homogenization-based methods of rule of mixtures for multi-material modeling.
