Sentence examples for binding rules rather than from inspiring English sources

That would involve opening its economy to its neighbours, and seeking integration based on mutual national interest and binding rules, rather than fleeting ideological solidarity.Brazil's foreign ministry recently launched a policy review (though, on South America, it is Ms Rousseff and her advisers who call the shots).

The worry is that we will be left with a patchwork of agreements, voluntary commitments and informal rules rather than legally binding obligations and the enforcement of global standards for guarding these deadly materials.

Can she rule rather than reign?

Nowadays privatisation is the rule rather than the exception.

Multiple group memberships are the rule rather than the exception.

Complications were the rule rather than the exception in revisions.

They use a random conversion rule rather than an assured rule.

That's the rule, rather than an exception.

In autism, heterogeneity is the rule rather than the exception.

Multiple anxiety disorders were the rule, rather than an exception.

Major changes were the rule rather than the exception.