The ultimate criterion of validity in a legal system is neither a legal norm nor a presupposed norm, but a social rule that exists only because it is actually practiced.
A rule that is externalized into print form a rule that exists outside of our private mental representations of it becomes a thing.
Editor's Note: No research has ever determined that any of Babe Ruth's 60 home runs in 1927 bounced into the stands under the ground rule that existed in various ball parks at the time.
Now the question is whether France will be able to maintain its strong presidential system or whether there will be a return to the sort of instable parliamentary rule that existed before 1958.
To tap into these pre-existing markets, Google will have to play by the rules that exist for everyone else — and it's inevitable that the Google pony will stumble along the way.
Imagine Andrew Luck playing under the rules that existed even 10 years ago.
Rough set is being used for the extraction of uncertain rules that exist in the databases of parking situations.
So, in as far as it is possible, we should try to make sure that the rules that exist offline exist online.
The audit report found that the commission delayed adopting rules on the rating agencies and sometimes failed to follow the rules that existed.
The rules that exist for women here are very deeply embedded in society, and it's the families of these women that put pressure on them.
