Sentence examples for mechanical rule from inspiring English sources

What you definitely can't do is declare that some mechanical rule like "start at zero" is the only way to go.

"Those people who are inclined toward the substantive say that you shouldn't allow a formal and mechanical rule to decide something when there's good substantive evidence available in the other direction".

In a typical atom with many electrons, the lower energy levels are filled, each with the number of electrons allowed by a quantum mechanical rule known as the Pauli exclusion principle.

There is no mechanical rule for discovering how best to read a dialogue, no interpretive strategy that applies equally well to all of his works.

There's no mechanical rule stating that jurors must vote for death if they find that the aggravating factors are greater in number or significance than the mitigating factors.

But whether that's true in any individual case depends on each country's situation--not on "some mechanical rule or threshold," such as those cited by deficit and debt hawks in the U.S. "There is no one-size-fits-all message," they write.

Our reasoning is too holistic in its inferences for it to proceed solely from mechanical rule-following, he decided.

Most of their charges need simple, mechanical rules to follow.

Keynes understood early on the fallacy of applying such mechanical rules.

The introduction sums up not just mechanical rules, but an attitude towards clear writing that we hold dear.

According to quantum mechanical rules governing the microscopic realm, seemingly empty space is a sea of ephemeral particles that constantly come into and go out of existence.