While poets with a classical tendency maintained the genre, with its confining rules, the changed circumstances of the Arabs made it an artificial convention.
Gov. Chris Christie is pressing for regulations that would allow some New Jersey school districts to hire superintendents without traditional academic backgrounds or experience, in an effort to change confining state rules like those that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had to surmount to win approval for Cathleen P. Black, his choice for New York City schools chancellor.
A historical feature film operates differently in that it is not confined by rules of evidence.
In creating the boxy three-room penthouse, which sits atop a six-story building, the architects worked within the confines of rules set by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission for the Greenwich Village Historic District.
Moreover, physicochemical laws that drive folding and determine function of biopolymers can be sometimes confined to rules as simple as Watson‐Crick pairing.
The Hellenic people, which, as a rule, confines itself to applauding even on special occasions, cheered its sovereign with all the enthusiasm which has been engendered by the success of the recent campaign.
It was the kind of story that the Chinese press likes to promote now and then as evidence of the country's capacity for pluralism within the wider confines of Party rule.
It is a sentiment that these days sounds alien in Moscow, where Mr. Putin has faced a challenge from a boisterous, though largely isolated, movement of urban elites whose ambitions and self-regard have outgrown the rigid confines of his rule.
Since the political community is the social unit that can dispose of people's lives, it will be able, where it exists, to assert its superiority over all other social groups within its confines and to rule out violent conflict among its members (CP 37 45).
She was arrested in 1977 when Pakistan was under military rule and confined to her home for several years.
