Sentence examples for rule replaced from inspiring English sources

The new rule replaced the former case-by-case assessment of a patent holder's waiver of protection for particular aspects of a patent.

But some predominantly Muslim northern states, which began instituting Shariah shortly after civilian rule replaced military dictatorship in 1999, have accused him of meddling.

When Serbian rule replaced that of the Ottoman Turks in 1913, the Serbs officially denied Macedonian linguistic distinctness and treated the Macedonian language as a dialect of Serbo-Croatian.

Soviet rule replaced that of the Russian tsars after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and thereafter the region was increasingly integrated into the Soviet system through a planned economy and improved communications.

We've been here before, they say, pointing to the Iranian revolution in 1979, when demonstrators toppled an American-supported autocrat only to see his rule replaced by a theocracy, led by the West-baiting Ayatollah Khomeini.

More than 15 years after democratic rule replaced military dictatorship, torture remains "widespread and systematic" throughout Brazil, regarded by the authorities as an accepted method of policing and unpunished by judges, according to a new report issued here by Amnesty International.

The game as a whole has speeded up, first because of the back-pass rule and now with the six-second rule replacing four steps.

Lowering the pitching mound and reducing the size of the strike zone in 1969, along with the advent of the designated hitter rule (replacing the pitcher in the batting order with a better-hitting player) in the American League in 1973, all served to partially reverse the decline in offensive productivity.

The transport rule replaces a 2005 Bush Administration proposal, called the Clean Air Interstate Rule CAIRR).

Most people would answer ijl, since it is natural to think that abc was changed to abd by the "transformation rule": replace the rightmost letter with its successor.

The CME's new rule replaces this in-person trading process with a blended system that takes into account orders placed by computerized traders when arriving at a final settlement price for these contracts.