Sentence examples for long-standing rule from inspiring English sources

The ruling negated a long-standing rule that said eligible voters who opted not to vote would be counted as voting against unionization.

(Ailes wanted Kroehling to leave the Ailes name out of his letter, citing the paper's long-standing rule against ad-hominem attacks).

A long-standing rule against earrings and studs was invoked last year when a man appeared with a stud through his eyebrow.

Mr. Kuroda said that the bank would suspend, for now, a long-standing rule that limits its bond holdings to the amount of money in circulation.

In documents, the State Division of Human Rights summarized the condo board's position as citing a "long-standing rule that doors should remain closed, except when in actual use".

He said he had directed top state court administrators "to make sure that both the letter and the spirit of our long-standing rule is complied with now and in the future".

Such long-standing rules deserve more respect.

The organization's long-standing rules limit coaches' off-season contact with players and require that schools petition if they want to play out of state.

The Department of Defense, in its own directive to military personnel and contractors, says that simply viewing these documents, without proper authorization, will violate long-standing rules even though they are accessible to the public at large on Internet sites.

Hardly the makings of a positive judgment from future historians.In pursuit of his fiscal ambitions, Mr Bush helped roll over or sweep aside long-standing rules and conventions designed to keep the deficit in check.

Since May, 2003, America's war in Iraq had been waged as a chapter in the war on terror, and the military's long-standing rules for running prisons in wartime had largely been ignored.