Sentence examples for laying down rules from inspiring English sources

"The value side issues… you can't start laying down rules for those," he said.

There are three ways in which it has been argued that precedents should be understood:[6] (1) as laying down rules, (2) as the application of underlying principles, and (3) as a decision on the balance of reasons.

Even so, laying down rules might not stop bad behavior.

He was laying down rules for other people.

But Eggers was never laying down rules for himself.

Republicans have a bad habit of laying down rules for other people to follow while excluding themselves.

In addition, it lays down rules with regard to night work and shift work.

It operates a strict code of practice that lays down rules about deceptions.

According to Jacobs, he "laid down rules, went to work in earnest pulling down partitions to enlarge the rooms, that he might establish two hospitals, one for the men and another for the women".

The film is constructed with the coherent hermeticism of chess: Nolan lays down rules of dream-manipulation that are finite, clear, and complex, guiding a personal, intimate, inchoate realm into discernible patterns.

Thus natural law not only lays down rules but also recommends ideals.