Sentence examples for retrospective rules from inspiring English sources

Sir Thomas caused outrage among MPs last October when he applied retrospective rules on the amount that could be claimed on gardening and cleaning bills.

As an example of the company's tendency toward retrospective rule-making, Jess points to another recent incident when a spray can of oil was left sitting next to an active barbecue and promptly exploded in everyone's faces.

Now one of its stars, George Theodorakis, gets a retrospective, The Rules of the Game, from the same label.

Twenty-four children were excluded from the study because retrospective classification ruled out rheumatic or associated diseases.

Our goal was to incorporate the highest number of cases possible into our study, and its retrospective design ruled out repeat sampling.

Under FA rules retrospective action cannot be taken if an incident has been seen, even if the full extent of it has not been witnessed.

Under FA rules, retrospective action cannot be taken if an incident has been seen by the officials, even if the full extent of it has not been witnessed.

Due to the retrospective design, no rules precluded the use of haemodialysis.

These retrospective, complex detection rules might be of value in two situations.

Our findings did not reveal any increased risk of acute pancreatitis with exenatide and sitagliptin, but this retrospective study cannot rule out with certainty the existence of such an association.

Although this retrospective analysis cannot rule out with certainty that an association between exenatide, sitagliptin, and acute pancreatitis exists, it appears that exenatide and sitagliptin may not be associated with a large increased risk of acute pancreatitis.