Sentence examples for opposed to rule from inspiring English sources

The game does not reward trickery or surprise — it has no equivalent of the flea-flicker in football or the squeeze play in baseball — and true innovations (as opposed to rule changes) are so rare that the last great step into the future was the jump shot, popularized by the N.B.A. pioneer Joe Fulks in the late 1940's.

One of his moves was to point out the problems with so-called "act consequentialism" as opposed to "rule consequentialism".

Other companies, including SSE, RWE npower, Centrica and EDF, were equally opposed to rules on reusing heat, although Scottish Power suggested the proposal could be adapted so as to exclude sites where it would be ineffective or unviable.

Furthermore, the learning strategies we assessed are more often used in "knowledge-centered subjects", such as Geography and Business, where extensive textual material must be mastered, as opposed to rules, laws and algorithms in subjects such as Mathematics and Accounting.

In practice you wind up writing XML files which provide layout guidelines, as opposed to rules, so that apps are rendered (hopefully) well on the entire vast panoply of devices and screen sizes out there.

I use the term "equation based" here to refer to simulations based on the kinds of global equations we associate with physical theories as opposed to "rules of evolution" (which are discussed in the next section).

And, as we have seen, Paul's vision of Christ was opposed to rules and restrictions around food, to the extent that he found himself in conflict with James and Peter on the subject.

Although those groups were nominally subject to the Moroccan sultan's authority, most preserved considerable local autonomy and were absolutely opposed to being ruled by Spanish Christians.

MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ: We do have representative democracy, as opposed to authoritarian rule.

However, activists opposed to Chinese rule see it as part of an independent Tibet.

Tibetans opposed to Chinese rule say those who self-immolated did it out of frustration with Chinese policies.