Sentence examples for drop rules from inspiring English sources

And he failed to persuade Zambia to drop rules that cheated Kenneth Kaunda, its ex-president, of the right to stand for election.But for Zaire, South Africa has really put its reputation and moral capital on the line.

The Gulf state has come under pressure to drop rules tying migrant workers to a single employer amid an influx ahead of the football tournament.

This latest action by DeVos's Education Department, which has multiple ties to for-profit education companies, is part of a broad and disgraceful effort to drop rules and enforcement measures that the Obama administration had established to hold predatory for-profit colleges accountable for ruining students' financial futures and wasting taxpayer dollars.

"Around Philly, we adhered to the one drop rule when it came to determining race.

"Certain parts of the country are going to become bastions of the one drop rule," he said.

Did I make that choice or was it foisted upon me – a vestige of the "one drop rule"?

There were only two options – "white" or "coloured" – and, according to the notorious "one drop" rule, a single non-white ancestor in your family tree made you "coloured".

The classification of these actors as "black" is itself a relic of the "one drop" rule and the US's historical obsession with "racial integrity".

We keep ours basically because of the black civil rights lobby, which has lobbied in favor of the one drop rule".

"We're back to the one drop rule," said Michael Lind, a senior fellow with the New America Foundation, referring to the old segregationist rule of thumb that designated people with scant black blood as black.

That has prompted the claims that Woods contravened the drop rule and that he should have instead incurred a two-stroke penalty, instead of the extra shot he signed for.