Sentence examples for became rules from inspiring English sources

Safety became rules: no sleepovers, no intimate life details over romantic dates, no personal details, and definitely no meeting the parents.

Most famously, great writers have split infinitives and ended sentences with prepositions for centuries, yet somehow bans on both usages became "rules" that have been taught to millions of speakers in English, in contravention of their own good sense for their native language.

There was no specific prohibition of fraudulent conduct in acquiring stock, so the S.E.C. staff members wrote up a proposal that became Rule 10b-5.

In the 18th century, "this England" became "rule Britannia", a process brilliantly described by the historian Linda Colley in her book Britons.

This is because, for some people in some communities, constitutional rules made by traditional and religious leaders became rules-in-use at the operational level.

When things look bad, as in Malaysia, the guidelines become rules.

"Football has become wanting, it's living in the dark ages.There are clear guidelines that must now become rules.

When one group is designated as unworthy of humane treatment, and that group is impossible to distinguish from others, it is unsurprising that exceptions quickly become rules.

Assuming most of the 13 proposals become rules, get ready for the second flood.

And some can take them too far and even become ruled by ritual and superstition.

A patient with chest pain, for example, becomes, "Rule-out M.I. (myocardial infarction).