Sentence examples for observed the rules from inspiring English sources

He said the party had observed the rules, and denied that it had any need to improve its methods.

Stalag Luft III was a commodious camp, where the Germans observed the rules of the Geneva Convention for treating war prisoners more closely than they generally did elsewhere.

The remainder of the panel, too, having anticipated someone who observed the rules of debate, attempted a few punches, but largely found themselves flailing.

When ordinary people came to the Temple, they too observed the rules of cultic cleanness, and therefore the priestly prohibitions applied to all Israelites during the times of participation in the Temple cult.

From about the second half of the 6th century to the end of the 8th century, Latin verse was written that no longer observed the rules of quantity but was clearly structured on accentual and syllabic bases.

"Countries that have not observed the rules of monetary union, that have profited from the euro without taking on the duties that go with it, must not be rewarded for this misbehavior," he wrote.

The silk faithfully observed the rule that allegations should not be made without evidence.

It was her mother, Phoebe, who told her that "everything is copy", and she has observed the rule - up to a point.

Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.

For strontium sulfate (Fig. 9d), similar phenomenon was observed, the rule polyhedral cone changed to loose taper lump.

In the chameleon case, that rule is: turn the color of the surrounding surface, whatever that is; and since the device observed the rule, the chameleon was coordinated with its environment, and the device persisted in descendant chameleons.