Sentence examples for rule rather than a from inspiring English sources

Or does Lord Moynihan's insistence that the bylaw is an eligibility rule rather than a sanction hold sway?

The result is widely being interpreted by analysts as a voter backlash against the scandal-ridden B.J.P. rule rather than a vote for the Congress.

Kazakhstan's senate, generally considered a rubber-stamp chamber, voted unanimously on Thursday to ask President Nursultan Nazarbayev to extend his current term in office until 2020 by holding a referendum on continuing his rule rather than a scheduled election.

(Such a "truth commission" has also been mooted in Indonesia, but there too it looks suspiciously like a ruse to give amnesty to those responsible for atrocities under former President Suharto's rule rather than a way of bringing the culprits to book).

Companies now must report on assets moved between levels, but it is not clear if they would have to disclose that the move came about because of a different interpretation of the rule, rather than a change in the availability of market information.

The alternative – propping up a Tory Brexit that benefits the establishment and throwing away the chance of a general election – will be kryptonite to Labour members across the country, who will rightly interpret a vote with May as a vote for four more years of Tory rule rather than a Corbyn-led Labour government.

It has recently become clear that large-scale macromolecular self-assembly is a rule, rather than an exception, of intracellular organization.

It's tempting to ask, in retrospect, "What was everyone thinking?" But Cisco's supply chain is the rule rather than an exception.

The objective of our research is to demonstrate that rapid change and adaptation have been the rule rather than an exception in Estonia (as elsewhere in the Western world) in the last century.

But he and his government have themselves twisted the news too often for the public readily to assume that the Hutton vindication represents the rule, rather than an exception.

When Amr Moussa was asked what he thought of the metal barrier that Egypt was sinking deep into the ground along its border with Gaza — and that threatens to tighten further Israel's siege of the territory — he replied that "the Rafah crossing [between Egypt and Gaza] should be open as a rule, rather than an exception.