Sentence examples for for bending the rules from inspiring English sources

It tells owners that they can win by entrusting their horses to a trainer known for bending the rules.

No one in Afghanistan gets promoted for bending the rules to fit the reality of patron-client relations and the exchange of favours.

In saving Ashildr (Maisie Williams) just a week after calling out the Fisher King for bending the rules of life and death, the Doctor has done exactly the same, and he realises straight away that he's on dodgy ground.

Perhaps the referee would have been acclaimed for bending the rules sensitively, but there was no miscarriage of justice as Lehmann became the first player in the competition to be dismissed in the final.

Besides, as I always said, the people most likely to be attacked were the policemen and the missionaries, not me, so I had a logical justification for bending the rules a little.

Now comes Bleeding Edge, which begins in Spring 2001 during the lull between the bursting of the dotcom bubble and 9/11, and features Maxine Tarnow, a maverick fraud investigator who has had her licence pulled for bending the rules one time too many – she jokes that she is the "Bad Accountant".

When the White House announced its policy change, Romney could have attacked the president for bending the rule of law to suit the demands of Democratic coalition politics, or alternatively he could have embraced the DREAM Act himself to pivot away from the hard line he took during the Republican primary campaign.

"I decided it was better to avoid the appearance of bending the rules for anyone," he said.

But others have grown frustrated, and are finding ways of bending the rules.For the past century the standard-bearer of the prohibition movement has been America, which imprisons more people for drug offences than any other country.

Don Harrison, a spokesman for Home Depot, says bending the rules is not that easy.

As an international freelance ballerina, she became famous for her audacity: bending the rules of classical ballet by lifting those steely yet delicate legs to vertiginous heights, and challenging dramatic conventions with her resolutely unsentimental acting.