Sentence examples for first and second rules from inspiring English sources

The first and second rules of Fight Club are that you do not talk about Fight Club, but if the publicity bender Flintoff embarked on in the build-up to his maiden outing as a prize fighter is anything to go by, they are dictums he would have struggled to observe.

But his first and second rules, for example, do not agree with each other.

Both P1 and P2 respect the first and second rule, but only P2 respects the third rule.

Also, Hume's fifth rule is an articulation of Newton's first and third rules.

Hume's seventh and eighth rules do not directly echo Newton's four rules.

It is a crucial rule because the fifth and sixth rules are, by Hume's lights, extensions of the fourth (1.3.15.7 8).

Moreover, the conjunction of Hume's fourth and seventh rules produces a new rule: "An effect always holds proportion with its cause" ("Of Interest," EMPL, 297).

We then move to the MIMO context in order to validate the second and third rules introduced in our mapping strategy, which aim to achieve a trade-off between performance and complexity.

The first G+C% rule should apparently be important for predicting directional changes of viral sequences, but the second and third rules should be important not only for predicting the directional sequence changes but also for potentially clarifying molecular evolutionary mechanisms of viral adaptation to hosts.

Anyone who's ever bought a home or spent more than a minute watching HGTV knows this is the first, second and third rule of real estate.

Newton concludes (by the first and second of his Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy) that the (centripetal) force holding the moon in its orbit is the same force as terrestrial gravity.