Sentence examples for his first rule from inspiring English sources

No sentimentality was his first rule.

His first rule: "Hatchet jobs should never run an inch longer than the victim merits.

His first rule was that life is precious, so man should not murder man".

Hurwitz is already following his first rule for creating excellent comedy by giving the show an intriguingly confusing title, so things are looking good.

His first rule is, "It mustn't be a chore". He is gentleness itself as he instructs, "Relax your thumb for vibrato," before taking them back to a simple pizzicato on the G-string.

Mr. Fischetti acknowledged that he had broken his first rule for young lawyers: "One of the worst things you can do is get emotionally involved and close to a client," he said.

Orwell accommodated poetic license in his sixth rule: "Break any of these rules rather than say something outright barbarous".

At no point, though, did he break his third rule: don't check to see how many new Twitter followers you have (more than 3,000).

His fourth rule – "Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent" – is the most applicable to this particular row, given Adichie's resistance to academic terminology.

His second rule deals with finding a customer base.

This echoes Newton's second rule of reasoning,[5] especially in its generalizing tendency, which Newton explicitly asserts in his third rule.[6] That is to say, in his fourth rule, Hume makes explicit what is implied by the simplicity of nature assumption in Newton's first rule:[7] that the same cause always produces the same effect.