Sentence examples for rule first from inspiring English sources

Well, what's a rule, first of all?

Chief Justice Rehnquist would rule first on this.

Adapted from "Beyond Majority Rule," first published in the August 2008 issue of Negotiation.

Remember the rule "first things first," and delete all e-mails, unread.

This Rule, first, acknowledges the importance to the sovereign, to the accused and to society of a criminal prosecution.

Centuries of foreign rule (first Swedes, then Russians) further entrenched education as the centrepiece of national identity.

In medicine, we like to live by a rule first articulated by William of Ockham, a 14th-century Franciscan friar, that the simplest explanation is often the best.

The new rule, first reported by ESPN.com, is one of many expected to be ratified by the players association before the 2013 regular season.

Local administration, where the colonial citizens typically experienced colonial authority, was based on the policy of indirect rule first developed in the north.

That ended more than a century of struggle against alien rule, first by the British from the 1890s and then by the government of independent Sudan from 1956.

Ionia was nominally independent again from 334 to 301 under the rule first of Alexander the Great and then of Antigonus I Monophthalmus.