Sentence examples for purpose of this rule from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this rule change is simply to tidy up the existing rule".

"An interpretation of the purpose of this rule leads to the conclusion that Ralph Steinman shall be awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine," it said.

The S.E.C. stated that the purpose of this rule was to "benefit shareholders by improving corporate suffrage, the disclosure provided in connection with corporate proxy solicitations and communication between shareholders in the proxy process".

The purpose of this rule, which goes back more than a century, is to prevent nasty husbands (or wives) from evading the divorce rules of the state they live in, by simply hopping across the state line to get a divorce in another state.

WTA rules state that "players shall not at any time physically abuse any official, opponent, spectator or other person...for the purposes of this rule, physical abuse is the unauthorised touching of an official, opponent and spectator or other person".

Electric current actually flows from the source's negative pole to its positive pole; however, for the purposes of this rule, we treat the current as though it were flowing from the positive to the negative pole.

The purpose of the rule is to give states flexibility in managing reintroduced species.

These served only to "gut the purpose of the rule", the judge said.

In the end it is hard to shake the sense that the original purpose of the rule has been lost.

"But the purpose of the rule, and ultimately what we have to get to, is the safety of the players.

The unspoken purpose of the rule changes, they found, was "to marginally curtail the participation of voters typically aligned with the Democratic party".