According to Saussure, any language is structured in the sense that its elements are interrelated in nonarbitrary, regular, rule-bound ways; a competent speaker of the language largely follows these rules without being aware of doing so.
But his colleagues said they were confident that the agency's regular rule-making process would ensure that all appropriate safety changes are carried out and that public health and safety are protected.
English has fairly regular rules for forming plurals.
It's almost like the mentality of Kentucky is beyond the regular rules.
To Dr. Greenberg and his colleague Dr. Ruhlen, the critics' requirement for establishing regular rules of sound change defies both common sense and history.
The court also speaks in the idiom of law — which is to say, of regular rules that apply to everyone across the board.
But Mr. Koshgarian said he did remember that Mr. Cardin's reaction was, "Any time anybody says they want to play by the regular rules, that's O.K. by us".
