Sentence examples for reference to rules from inspiring English sources

My reference to "rules and restrictions" was meant to counter the common misconception that variation in vernacular and other varieties of everyday language is random or unsystematic.

The invitation extended to him, but bizarrely denied to two former Labour prime ministers, has been explained by reference to rules of protocol that now clearly need to be changed.

The most common form of partial rule-consequentialism claims that agents should make their moral decisions about what to do by reference to rules justified by their consequences, but does not claim that moral wrongness is determined by rules justified by their consequences.

(K.nP) However, some of the CEOs argued that repeated reference to rules and regulations was not an effective strategy to manage physicians.

The main evidence for this is simply Aristotle's Topics, especially Book VIII, which makes frequent reference to rule-governed procedures, apparently taking it for granted that the audience will understand them.

The book, though, largely addresses the professional question, arguing that the governing legal rules in the community are identified not by reference to the commands of a sovereign but by reference to rule of recognition used by the legal officials to identify the set of norms that governs their (public) actions.

Furthermore, the argument that subjects had selected a rule in advance even on nominal no-rule trials could not easily be applied to experiment 3 or other action-selection studies which made no reference to rule choices in training or scanning.

Avempace's most representative works are the Rule of the Solitary.[29] the epistle of the Farewell Message,[30] and the Epistle of Conjunction of Intellect with Man.[31] The latter work contains references to Rule of the Solitary and to the epistle of the Farewell Message (as well as to his book on the Soul).

From a deontological standpoint the actor knows that her actions are good or bad by making reference to a rule or rules.

There is a certain tradition of theater that everything human beings do can be understood fundamentally by reference to the rules of psychology.

Section 5, however, this court has an independent obligation to ensure that Florida resolves any controversies over the appointment of electors by reference to the rules enacted by the Legislature prior to the election, not post hoc standards announced for the first time by courts some two weeks after the election.