Sentence examples for had bent the rules from inspiring English sources
Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
Together they laughed at how Ms. Johnson had bent the rules, allowing Ms. Basnyat to attend Head Start even though she lived in Hauppauge, outside the designated area.
The indictment — which followed a seven-year investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan and the S.E.C. — created a damning portrait of Cohen and his fifteen-billion-dollar firm and suggested that S.A.C. had bent the rules for years.
The Americans, Inoki's fans suggested, had bent the rules to their advantage at the last minute, just as they had when the Black Ships arrived at Yokohama in the 1850s and demanded the Shogun open Japan to foreign trade, just as they had when Nixon renewed trade relations with China and again when he took the dollar off the gold standard, just, in short, as Americans always did.
If Sky has bent the rules, one senses other teams must have too.
Just as important, successive mayors have bent the rules to provide special job, housing and political benefits to newcomers.
Although traditionalists bemoan diving as a continental disease, there are plenty of instances when British players have bent the rules to gain an advantage.
Mr. Petrocelli characterized Mr. Skilling as a loyal employee who at times might have bent the rules, but only for the company's benefit.
Cricket Australia has bent the rules to give Test captain Michael Clarke every chance of proving himself fit for the World Cup.
Irish writers may have bent the rules of realism, but the joke is that O'Keefe is not so improbable a figure.
