Sentence examples for rule principle from inspiring English sources

BitTorrent, however, uses what could be called a Golden Rule principle: the faster you upload, the faster you are allowed to download.

Colonial rule in Sierra Leone was based on the divide and rule principle of separating the coastal colony, with its Krio population (descendants of freed slaves), from the rest of the country, which was ruled as a protectorate.

If the universal, (the rule, principle, or law) is given, then the judgment which subsumes the particular under it is determinant.

With everyone focused on the "risky bet" portion of the Volcker rule principle, it sure would be nice to see federal officials tackle the "access to taxpayer-backed funds" piece.

India won its independence in 1947 with non-violence but there was a bloody struggle between the Muslims and Hindus which was instigated, inspired and supported partially by the divide and rule principle of the British colonial political strategy.

58 Some have argued that we should reject the 'dead donor rule' (Principle 5).

So what are the rules of taste, over and above any rules or principles involved in sound judgment about the object of taste?

(c) Because Bacchus thus applied its own rule, principles of equality and stare decisis require that it be applied to the litigants in this case.

If an arbitrary function deserves that name, the rule-to-rule principle is stronger than (C): it is equivalent to local, distributive, language bound compositionality of meaning.

But if we insist — quite plausibly — that a semantic rule must be computable (or perhaps easily computable) the rule-to-rule principle is stronger than that.

No one seriously disputes that good writing has certain demonstrable rules, principles and techniques.