There are remarkably few examples of cultures and societies that have gone without carefully prescribed rules and rituals for handling the bodies of the dead.
In recent years, naming ceremonies for Jewish girls -- and their accompanying parties -- have become increasingly popular, but unlike the almost 4,000-year-old 4,000-year-old 4,000-year-old rules.
As a whole, the items vividly evoke a certain segment of Victorian society -- proper, snobbish, adhering to carefully prescribed rules of conduct and comportment.
All other ranks wore "stone blue" chaofu decorated in accordance with prescribed rules about the number, type, and arrangement of dragon motifs.
"A lawyer representing Celtic recently was successful in having charges against that club dropped because of the inadequacy of the SFA's prescribed rules, regulations, and sanctions.
The students just played the game with the prescribed rules so that we could identify emergent learning patterns, iron out logistic issues, and probe the students on their perceptions of the design.
The introduction of a performance-based approach, in which buildings are designed to meet the performance requirements rather than strictly complying with the prescribed rules, recently provides the opportunity for building designers to generate unique and daring solutions.
In order to benefit from such a service-oriented model of software, several critical issues must be addressed in a service-oriented environment such as differentiation of services by various attributes, dynamic selection and provision of services in a supply chain style, and commitment of services with prescribed rules.
So what we have is a patchwork of mainly unilateral, nationally prescribed rules that reflect the interests and preferences of that country.
All over the world, for thousands of years, nations have embraced the rule of law -- the principle that prescribed rules, rather than the whims of any individual, should govern society.
