Sentence examples for rule-governed from inspiring English sources

We are rule-governed creatures because we conceive of ourselves as rule-governed creatures.

Music, too, is rule-governed in a way that should make it easily simulated".

Although this "poverty of the stimulus" argument proved extremely controversial, most philosophers enthusiastically endorsed the idea that natural languages are syntactically rule-governed.

It is, of course, controversial to claim that monkeys have rule-governed propositional social knowledge systems as claimed in (iv) and (v).

Sovereign dictatorship, then, is still necessary to create the substantive equality that grounds the legitimate operation of constituted, rule-governed democratic politics.

Finally, Kochanska, Aksan, and Joy (2007) found that child fearfulness moderated the association between both positive motherchild relationships and later successful socialisation and paternal discipline style and child rule-governed behaviour, with more fearful children being apparently more susceptible to the effect of positive interactions with their mothers and their fathers discipline style.

Gottsched's derivative, rule-governed poetics made him an unlikely candidate for founder of modern German literature.

African-American English is just as rule governed as Standard English, but the dialect is often ridiculed because of cultural snobbery.

For the first time, Forbes.com has compiled a list of Luxury Wildlife Tours, and a single rule governed our selection criteria: more is more on a wildlife trip.

Ivan Sratsimir and his family were captured and taken to the castle of Humnik in modern Croatia and the region of Vidin was placed under direct Hungarian rule governed through a Ban appointed by the King of Hungary.

No evident rule governed the accession-coverage frequencies of specific ncRS sequences.