At the same time, the court upheld most of the media ownership rules handed down by the commission in 2008.
The serious players, moreover, like to go at it without any stuffy rules handed down by the card-playing equivalent of the Geneva Convention.
Both architecture and interior design in the 20th century have consciously broken with the many rules handed down from past eras.
They tended to look at matters of the spirit in the same way they regarded the laws of nature — as a series of immutable rules, handed down by God.
For those who didn't follow rules handed down by God through man, these New World authorities could cut out your tongue, slice off your ears or execute you.
Renaissance prosodic theory had to face the fact of an accomplished poetry in the vernacular that was not written in metres determined by "rules" handed down from the practice of Homer and Virgil.
So secretive is Liechtenstein that it has become one of only three countries that do not comply with information-sharing rules handed down by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECDD).
He's not out there defying rules handed down by elites to control what we say.
The "They-can-call-themselves-priests" set adheres (as they revere) to rules handed down by a lineup of men who have, throughout the history of the church, broken and altered canon law at will.
It's a marvelous piece of writing that flagrantly violates several of the rules Strunk handed down to him.
To answer such questions, Americans have traditionally relied on time-tested moral rules, usually handed down by a supreme being, that command obedience and punish defiance.
