Sentence examples for dismissed the rules from inspiring English sources

When the N.B.A. adopted the 3-point shot in 1979, purists cried foul at rules changes, just as many D&D devotees dismissed the rules of the game's fourth edition as dumbed down, overeager to mimic multiplayer online games like Warcraft — and favoring killing over the role-playing and storytelling roots of Dungeons & Dragons.

In 2009, an appeals court dismissed the rules.

It's easier to dismiss the rules, to dismiss the idea of genre and any other conventions that don't fit with the kind of work you are most moved to create.

The Home Office pledge to challenge those who "reject parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance and discrimination on the basis of race, faith, ethnicity, gender or sexuality," is laudable.

It requests that Federal District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin immediately dismiss the rule and declare Clarett eligible for the 2004 draft on April 24, or force the league to hold a special supplemental draft sooner.

A significant section of the population believe the EU was voted off on 23 June, and now are beginning to openly dismiss the rule of law, as though it were Jedward, or a Survivor contestant who disparaged the Ulong tribe's plans for a shelter with an awesome sex crib attached.

Other critics dismissed the new rules, which are entirely voluntary.

Although the lawyers' charges of incitement were dismissed, the Supreme Court ruled that the comments in her affidavit amounted to contempt.

The potential jurors will remain anonymous until they are dismissed, the judge ruled Monday, to shield them from being contacted and possibly tainting the trial.

This for me just dismissed the importance of the rules, and spoilt the book.

After a statewide recount ended with Franken ahead by 312 votes, Coleman again appealed the result, but on June 30 the Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed the challenge and ruled that Franken was entitled to be certified the winner.