He responded that the Court "has drawn a bright-line rule" only to consider actions that occur at trial or that led to the absence of a trial.
The straight line is something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling; it is the line which does not exist in nature.
Inductive reasoning allows you to conclude that if the same thing happens enough times, you can draw a general rule that it will always happen.
Lawyers for Tyco International high-flying ex-chairman Dennis Kozlowski can argue at trial that auditors did indeed know just how much pay he was drawing, a judge ruled.
He was also required to draw up a "rule," or set of regulations, for the community, which, when the Pope approved it, made the Franciscans a religious order of the Church.
The trend toward treating the value of stock options as an expense grew yesterday, as Bank One became the third major company to announce plans to do so this week and as an international accounting panel directed its staff members to draw up a rule to require such accounting treatment.
… Drew Jackson, a Rule 5 pick by the Baltimore Orioles in December, cleared waivers and was returned to the Dodgers.
In fact, a correlation exists between the relative carbon content in such films and the center of the G-band, and on this basis we have drawn a 'rule of thumb' allowing us to obtain an estimate of the carbon content from the Raman spectra.
The court drew a bright-line rule at 18.
The new boss drew up a "rules of the garage", based on how the original HP operated.
The standard reply to such objections is to draw a distinction between rules on the basis of which Mentalese data-structures are manipulated, and the data-structures themselves (intuitively, the program/data distinction).
