Sentence examples for laying down rules for from inspiring English sources
"The value side issues… you can't start laying down rules for those," he said.
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.
And as for laying down rules for other people, Eggers has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and worked on three screenplays.
She sometimes recommends counseling, but her advice usually takes the form of laying down rules for acting "appropriately" at home and school.
The warning to Portugal underlined the need to re-examine the Stability and Growth Pact, which lays down rules for euro-zone membership, to try to prevent a repeat of the crisis that has engulfed Greece and threatened the euro, Mr. Rehn said.
Abelard does not attempt to harmonize these apparently inconsistent remarks, but in his preface he lays down rules for proper hermeneutic investigation: look for ambiguity, check the surrounding context, draw relevant distinctions, and the like.
Nicolas Boileau writes in his influential didactic poem, The Art of Poetry (1674), in which he lays down rules for good versification within different genres, that "Nothing is beautiful but the true, the true alone is lovable".
The April 2010 document laid down rules for equal enfranchisement and orderly elections, requiring poll workers to provide bilingual ballots when needed and to refrain from making "inappropriate comments" to Native American voters, among many provisions.
On one tablet, a father laid down rules for his son.
