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Discover LudwigThe phrase "authoritative rule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a regulation or guideline that is recognized as having the power to enforce compliance or obedience.
Example: "The committee established an authoritative rule that all members must adhere to the new safety protocols."
Alternatives: "binding regulation" or "official directive".
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"It's almost like that authoritative rule to be successful in life and, you know, make money and do all these things".
An ethicist refutes justice arguments that a fundamental right to bodily integrity exists warranting the abolition by the state of parental rights to have their son circumcised, pointing out that, " neither the UNCRC nor the ethics literature provides an authoritative rule for resolving conflicts between rights" [ 45].
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Basic human needs and circumstances powerfully suggest to people in virtually all times and places that they should make and uphold some norms of the kind we call law, norms which will depend directly and for the most part on social facts such as custom, authoritative rule-making, and adjudication.
In our cases, the fit is not exactly the one envisioned through the authoritative rules and the purpose of institutional conservation, but it is an order nevertheless, and that order is not necessarily good for endangered species.
Smaller monasteries for men and women emerged in Cappadocia under the influence of the Greek theologian St. Basil the Great (c. 330 379), who composed the first widely authoritative monastic rule in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
His name translates to "strength of the land, incomparable power," and the king was an authoritative figure, his rule sacrosanct, and his absolute power insulated by a powerful military that staged a coup in 2014, overthrowing the country's democratically elected government.
Sources that are of more recent origin are generally accepted as more authoritative, and specific rules take precedence over general rules.
Thus, different strands of regulation studies share an agreement on the subject of regulation (the state), the object (the behaviour of nongovernmental actors), the instruments (an authoritative set of rules), or the domain of application (e.g., the economy).
In fact agents with different expertise themselves would find different legal rules authoritative.
On one authoritative definition of the rule (decision of the Privy Council in Subramaniam v PP, (1956) 1 Weekly Law Reports 965), what it prohibits is the use of a hearsay statement to prove the truth of the facts asserted therein.[10] The objection is to the drawing of the inference that p from X's out-of-court statement that p where X is not available to be examined in court.
Since none have made use of a full range of sources in both languages, there has been no truly authoritative account of Cixi's rule.
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