Sentence examples for invoking rules from inspiring English sources

And it is precisely because of the ease with which such rules of competition can be rigged to favor some so-called normal modes of functioning over other seemingly anomalous ones that feminists rightly have been suspicious of invoking rules derived from models of competitive recreation as relevant to and regulative of social justice.

So, whether it's getting data down to the client or invoking rules, whatever it might be, making that simpler, and this is the sort of stuff — it turns out that if you look at the amount of time people spend building business apps, or apps of any kind, consumer-based apps, et cetera, there's a set of problems everybody has to do again and again and again and again.

The next day, the Masters rules committee assessed Woods a two-stroke penalty and allowed him to play on, invoking Rule 33-7, which allows the penalty of disqualification for signing an incorrect scorecard to be waived in exceptional individual cases.

While invoking Rule 240 won't help you get out of every unforeseen weather-related situation, bringing up the policy can't hurt.

Although Arcadia no longer owns BHS, TPR could invoke rules that allow it to pursue former owners.

May he invoke rules of evidence to exclude points that would weigh against his case but that he considers to be true or probably true?

The decision to withhold publication prompted both the American and the Dutch commerce departments to invoke rules restricting the export of "dual-use" materials and information (those that can serve both civil and military ends).

As in previous centuries, the need to challenge the unjust laws of particular states inspired the desire to invoke rules of right and justice held to be natural rather than merely conventional.

Economists expect membership to have only a limited effect on the domestic economy in the short term, as the government has said that it will invoke rules allowing a transitional period to protect strategic industries, including automaking, from foreign competition.

Bourdieu suggested that scholarly attention to rules may be misplaced, noting that they are often used to explain behaviour rather than to direct it; in other words, people often invoke rules only in retrospect, to rationalize actions they have already taken.

You'd think the Academy would respect producers who fight to get great movies made, but it seems that among all the usual mud-slinging that occurs at this stage of the Oscars race, they'd rather invoke rules to protect a small movie like Avatar.