Sentence examples for plain rules from inspiring English sources

The act outlaws fraud, which the state's highest court has interpreted to mean "all deceitful practices contrary to the plain rules of common honesty".

It was done in defiance of the plain rules and traditions and procedures of the country's own military order and judicial system, and had to be remedied by them.

I saw a row of windmills lining the highway near Fort Collins, Colo., the sign for a firearms store in Laramie, Wyo., and dozens of trailers outside Rock Springs, Wyo.: a whole neighborhood on a sterile plain ruled by the wind.

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It explained how the company intended to fight the proposed plain packaging rules in the UK.

These were probably "pocket" instruments for officials, too expensive to be used by ordinary craftsmen who probably used plain strip rules.

Four of the world's biggest tobacco companies have gone to the high court to challenge the lawfulness of the government's new plain packaging rules.

Some of the nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film are coming out this month, too, but they're less dependent on late-year release because of the arcane (or just plain weird) rules governing that category.

Tobacco giants also failed in a last-ditch legal challenge against the government's plain packaging rules at the high court when a judge rejected a judicial review action brought against the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, by four of the world's biggest firms.

Thus, we have the U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly demanding $500 million from Canada in a NAFTA trade tribunal because the Canadian Supreme Court failed to give them monopoly patent rights over two drugs and we see Phillip Morris suing Australia via a Hong Kong trade agreement over new plain packaging rules for tobacco in an attempt to discourage smoking.

Under the plain meaning rule, there was a coup".