Sentence examples for rule stretched from inspiring English sources

But as Mubarak's rule stretched on, the jokes caught up with him, many of them catalogued in the current Foreign Policy.

The lobbying barrage continued at the regulatory agencies, whose final version of the rule stretched to 300 pages of loopholes, exemptions and special considerations.

With five years of majority Tory rule stretching out in front of them, it can't be long before Yorkshire's leaders cave in too.

On a continuum of political rule stretching from the sheer domination of some over others on one extreme, to a vision of collaborative deliberation among equals for the sake of the good life on the other, many ancient Greek and Roman political philosophers clearly staked out the latter ground.

On the contrary, with its history of colonial occupation, and dictatorial rule stretching from Morocco to Iraq everyone here clings to hope or rather the promise of hope.

The list of college stars who ran afoul of the rules stretches back for years.

The text, as with so many recent financial rules, stretches to hundreds of pages once lengthy preambles and other fleshing-out are taken into account.

I think of cinema as a kind of language game and I am playing with the rules, stretching them and finding out what assumptions we make when we look at cinema.

A Tour de France of 14 riders being unimaginable, the rules were stretched.

But there is no state in sight and the Oslo Accords, which were meant as interim arrangements giving the Palestinians limited self-rule, have stretched on for nearly two decades, perpetuating what critics say are conditions that are now limiting economic development.

In a case like Enron, the company arguably stuck to the letter of the accounting rules, but stretched its spirit to the limit.