The UCI rulebook is a somewhat impenetrable and daunting document but on issues of accepting anything but a bidon or spanner from another team, the rules are crystal clear.
The complex hate crime and its rulebook cousin are both motivated by the insidious ways in which homophobia still exists – that someone would rather kill than be outed or caught getting a blowjob from another guy in the front seat of his car.
Efforts to persuade the European Central Bank to tear up its own rulebook and loosen the noose – by easing limits on cash flows to Greek banks – have fallen on stony ground.
Farah tore up the rulebook, working with his American training partner, Galen Rupp, to deal with each surge as it came, refusing to panic and striking for home with supreme confidence at 600m as the noise reached wild levels.
The restrictions (which have been compared to the EU's famous rulebook supposedly regulating the curvature of bananas) have sparked widespread ridicule.
The sport's growing difficulty and its 200-page rulebook make it a tough sell to new players.In the past stars have had the power to reignite interest in the game.
The Higgs, which is involved in giving other particles mass, is the keystone of the particle-physics rulebook known as the Standard Model.
The OCC, a part of the Treasury, offers them alternative supervision by national charter.Since January 2004, the OCC's rulebook for national banks has taken precedence over some consumer rules in various states, which makes life much easier for banks that cover a number of states.
Other countries that subsidise farming less will ask the EU to throw away its entire price-fixing, market-bending and export-subsidising rulebook.
Under the New Labour version, "Best Value", the present, complex rulebook on compulsory tendering will be chucked out.
Again and again throughout the crisis, Mr Mubarak declared his determination to serve out the remaining seven months of his term.This punctiliousness might have been understandable, and indeed many Egyptians accepted that an orderly transition might require a rulebook.
