Sentence examples for idiosyncratic rule from inspiring English sources

And what about Yulia Timoshenko, a politician whose erratic and idiosyncratic rule is responsible for much of the mess that Ukraine is now in?

Since seizing power in a coup in 1969, Colonel Qaddafi has imposed his idiosyncratic rule on Libya, one of the world's biggest exporters of oil.

His detractors would claim that the use of violence marred his reputation, and that his idiosyncratic rule did not serve his people well.

Under Colonel Qaddafi's idiosyncratic rule, tribal bonds remain primary even within the ranks of the military, and both protesters and the security forces have reason to believe that backing down will likely mean their ultimate death or imprisonment.

Yet, even if this be so, the Rule that imposed itself all over Europe by virtue of its excellence alone was not the long, rambling, and often idiosyncratic "Rule of the Master".

The setbacks were the clearest sign yet of the momentum Colonel Qaddafi's government has seized as it tries to crush the greatest challenge to his nearly 42 years of idiosyncratic rule.

Many prisons add their own idiosyncratic rules.

To compound my confusion, Points.com had formed a partnership with www.giftcertificates.com as well as Gift Certificates Center (www.mychoice.com); both companies had idiosyncratic rules and different lists of retailers.

He has laid out and built 25 houses already, using his own idiosyncratic rules of classical proportion involving a set of ropes and a great deal of guesswork, "like the ancient Greeks did".

The method of diagnosing patients used since the early 1980s in psychiatry, which involves evaluating each of several hundred symptoms for their presence or absence and then applying idiosyncratic rules for combining them for each of several hundred disorders, has led to great advances in research over the last 30 years.

After Austin and Stafford lost to Elna and Monica Reinach in the women's doubles, the most dramatic moment of the evening occurred in the singles, with Stafford trailing Elna Reinach, 0-3, in a tie breaker after they had reached 5-5 in games (another of the league's idiosyncratic rules).