Sentence examples for handful of rules from inspiring English sources

THE handful of rules changes announced Thursday by the National Basketball Association is, as the saying goes, as useful as giving a physic to a dead horse.

Or is it inherently libertarian, because the play is almost unregulated (unlike baseball or American football, soccer has only a handful of rules) and the "government" is small and weak (the referees are overstretched, undermanned, and without technological backup)?

Indeed, where a typical TCP congestion-control algorithm might consist of a handful of rules — if the percentage of dropped packets crosses some threshold, cut the transmission rate in half — the algorithms that Remy produces can have more than 150 distinct rules.

Having expressed his low opinion of smoking, binge drinking, gluttony, late breakfasts, and oysters, Mr. Stomach ends his hundred-and-twenty-page account with a handful of rules "to keep, through my assistance, the entire corporeal system in health and comfort".

Over the course of two workshops, the team negotiated all the ideas down to a handful of rules, such as "The customer can complete payment in fewer than five steps" and "More than one existing customer requested the payment option". The negotiations were intense but helped highlight divergent assumptions that had impeded coordination among functions in the past.

The bill carves out exemptions for smaller banks from a handful of rules, especially around mortgages, but also requirements on how much cash must be kept on hand and reporting obligations.

There are only a handful of rule changes for the 2013 season, which is the last before a major new set of regulations are introduced next year, but what there are could have a big effect.

Since relevant engineering knowledge mostly consists of declarations that prohibit collisions and just a handful of generative rules, there are no useful means to drive these heuristics.

Like chess or draughts, Tak takes a handful of simple rules and uses them to create genuine depth.

But entomologists have, like Simon, long believed that this apparently complex behaviour is the result of sticking to a handful of simple rules.

Fez asks us to manipulate space in order to progress, choosing just a handful of unflinching rules and spinning out five hundred vignette ideas to puzzle and delight.