Sentence examples for exercising a rule from inspiring English sources

Her claim was turned down, and she appealed, but on May 22nd the appeal was rejected and the nursery school vindicated.At issue was whether the nursery was guilty of "indirect discrimination" by exercising a rule that worked to the disadvantage of one social group, in this case Muslims; and whether or not the rule could be justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.

During the second world war several members of Mr Cioaba's family were among the 40,000 Romanian gypsies deported to German concentration camps (where more than 500,000 gypsies from European countries died: Auschwitz had its own gypsy section).The post-war ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, did not persecute the gypsies, at least no more than he exercised a rule of fear over all Romanians.

The first transnational democracy would become an especially effective, because disguised, arrangement for exercising a kind of post-democratic rule.

"Putin is a bit like Peter the Great, opening to the West for capital and technology but at the same time recentralizing Russia and reinforcing authoritarian rule, while exercising a more assertive foreign policy in the areas where he can".

The security phenomenon, at whatever territorial level it is analysed, calls without exception for the discouragement and repression of crime to be among the essential functions of those holding legal power, which in democracy is exercised within a rule of law framework.

Aristotle (Politics III.15.1286a IV 4 1292a) vigorously debates the question whether political authority is better exercised through a "rule [primacy, supremacy] of law" or "a rule of men," say of one best person, or a democratic assembly, or indeed (Rhetoric I 1 1354a32–b16) a court.

As my colleague Christi Parsons reported, businesses are exercised about a rule requiring prospective federal contractors to disclose labor law violations dating back three years and government agencies to take those violations into account when handing out federal contracts.

A non-bank entity, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, has been initiating foreclosures, the Washington Post reports, exercising an authority that judges have ruled it does not have.

From the outset, reviewers were nonplussed by this new-old space, especially the tendency for its groundlings (standing audience members) to exercise a form of mob rule.

There are, however, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, sayyids and sharifs, regarded as superior in the social scale to all others, who have at times exercised a theocratic type of rule as spiritual leaders.

During his reign, Iltutmish was faced with three problems: defense of his western frontier, control over the Muslim nobles within India, and subjugation of the many Hindu chiefs who still exercised a large measure of independent rule.