Sentence examples for notorious rule from inspiring English sources

The most notorious rule of confinement — a ban on showering and washing hair for the month — is generally considered anachronistic given the availability of clean, hot water.

His voice was drowned out by the adoring shouts of fans ("Manny! Manny!") as the team's most notorious rule breaker jogged back toward the clubhouse to shower.

Other factions with no natural sympathy for Paul have been drawn to the fight about credentialing standards and rules, including the suddenly notorious Rule 12 (and despite what appeared to be a compromise on many points Monday night).

"I'll follow 'em, because we have bosses, but... ..... His voice was drowned out by the adoring shouts of fans ("Manny! Manny!") as the team's most notorious rule breaker jogged back toward the clubhouse to shower.

The notorious Dogma rules challenge the conventions of cinematic illusionism by insisting on hand-held cameras and naturally occurring light and sound.

The most important result of the 1881 pogrom wave was the promulgation in May 1882 of the notorious "temporary rules," which further restricted Jewish rights and remained in effect to the very end of the Russian Empire.

There were only two options – "white" or "coloured" – and, according to the notorious "one drop" rule, a single non-white ancestor in your family tree made you "coloured".

Once notorious for the rule of President Bokassa (1963-1979), who called it the Central African Empire and crowned himself as its Emperor, it has lapsed into obscurity and chronic instability.

The "substitution of electors" enabled the white politicians of the slave states to import the extra weight the notorious three-fifths rule gave them in the House into the mechanism for electing the President.

Madison is referring to the notorious three-fifths rule, whereby three-fifths of the enslaved were counted in determining the size of a state's delegation to the House of Representatives (as were five-fifths of the disfranchised whites, by the way).

The American-led occupation is holding thousands of suspected insurgents and criminals at Abu Ghraib, a large prison west of Baghdad that was notorious during the rule of Saddam Hussein for overcrowded cells and torture chambers.