Sentence examples for inflexible rule from inspiring English sources

David Perry QC, for the government, complained that the Strasbourg judges had laid down a "hard-edged, inflexible rule" which contradicted their own previous rulings.

Delta's inflexible rule is foolish and overreaching; it ignores the wishes of parents and the various levels of maturity of young passengers.

He went on: "By imposing an inflexible rule in all criminal cases, we feel that this court would be intruding into a field that has been historically reserved for the states".

During the argument on Jan . 15 , 1963a Florida assistant attorney general, Bruce R. Jacob, told the justices that "imposition of an inflexible rule in this area would be an unwarranted intrusion into historic rights of the states to determine their own rules of criminal procedure".

When I worked for the book-review section of a newspaper, we had a vague premonition that hardened into a single, inflexible rule of office procedure: Do not, under any circumstances, write or publish anything on the subject of Sylvia Plath, especially if it concerns her marriage to Ted Hughes.

Even though I was forced to conform to this inflexible rule, I was full of life and a dreamer.

Pointing to the restriction as proof "Bin Laden has won", the unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, slammed the "inflexible rule-bound airport security".

Describing the stress and anxiety they suffer, she said the "inflexible rules" needed to be reconsidered.

Those are rather inflexible rules, and many writers choose to break them.

Prosecutions are rare, and victims who come forward years later are often barred from court by inflexible rules.

Ravenhill is astute enough to allow a measure of sympathy for the military officials forced to follow inflexible rules.