Once opened, martial law and other forms of extraordinary rule and dictatorship can be difficult doors to close — political scientists see martial law as one of the ways that democracies die.
He reports that according to one of the defense lawyers, the attorney general personally had to sign off on all actions in the case, an extraordinary rule that would slow things down considerably.
The judge sentencing Faiz at Leeds Crown Court, said it was "extraordinary" that rules in Pakistan only state that there should be a 12-hour gap between "bottle and throttle", no matter how much the pilot had drunk.
There are situations that are too extraordinary for rules to apply.
In this light, the initial inquiry into whether Ernst & Ernst's preparation and certification of the financial statements of First Securities Company of Chicago were negligent, because of the failure to perceive Nay's extraordinary mail rule, and in other alleged respects, and thus whether Rule 10b-5 was violated, should not be thwarted.
When the Inland Revenue sued him, the judge described Mr Ecclestone's "machinery" as "altogether extraordinary", and ruled that he had breached company law.
But it is extraordinary to rule that councils have no lawful authority to choose, if they so wish, to start their formal meetings with prayers.
Just as the standard free-form subdivision surface schemes, jet subdivision schemes are based on combining (i) a symmetric subdivision scheme in the shift-invariant setting with (ii) an extraordinary vertex rule.
Others readers report being promised by airline staff that easyJet would cover hotel accommodation and other expenses following a delay or re-routing only to find that when they claimed, it was denied, again under the "extraordinary circumstances" rule.
