A British government consultation that closed earlier this month examined tough Dutch age thresholds and income tests, and asked for comments on a ferocious rule in Denmark, requiring a mixed Danish-foreign couple to show that their combined attachment to Denmark is "considerably greater" than to any other country.
Witness Peter Brook's "Lord of the Flies" (1963), as unforgettably eerie as William Golding's 1954 book, in which a band of boys stranded on an island reinvents the system of rules, ferocious competition, bullying and abuse of privilege that characterized every "good" school.
In order to guard against bias, the rules are ferocious: timed questions and answers, no interrupting, no controversial topics or direct attacks.
Yesterday, Pistorius made a strategic retreat from his ferocious denouncement of the rules governing artificial limbs which, he contended, had given an unfair advantage to his surprise conqueror in the T44 200m final, Brazil's Alan Fonteles Oliveira.
Secondly, Germany is pushing for substantial changes to the EU treaties in order to create ferocious borrowing and spending rules for euro zone member governments, policed by the European Commission and, ultimately, the European Court of Justice.
The best-known example was Fela Kuti of Nigeria, the main creator of the Afropop style in the 1970s and a ferocious opponent of military rule in his country.
One highlight will be Lawler's now hilarious account of the ferocious reaction to his decision to rule out a five-a-side goal scored by the manager at the end of training.
Aides and advisers shared that feeling, which was laced, in one adviser's words, with a "ferocious anger" that the Florida Supreme Court had ruled in a manner that was "totally partisan, totally hack, intellectually corrupt".
Over three albums the ferocious Tennessee band Whitechapel has helped write those rules.
Nadal is perhaps the exception to the rule: on court his game is ferocious and brutal.
