Sentence examples for rulebook as from inspiring English sources

BRUSSELS — The European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, on Tuesday accused the German government of lacking leadership during the euro crisis and describing its plans to rewrite the European Union's rulebook as "naïve".

The bad news is that none of the new songs tonight rewrite the pop rulebook, as Sugababes Mk I did, or sound like shameless pop 2.0 chart-toppers, fusing rave with techno with R&B.

He used his speech to go over all the old arguments – most controversially, the decision not to hold a national ballot of miners to approve strike action – citing specific dates and meetings, even quoting "national rule 41" of the NUM rulebook, as if he had spent the last 25 years turning over in his mind, again and again, the events of that fateful year.

Director Ian Gabriel has mastered the street-style rulebook as written by films such as City of God and Amores Perros, and has transposed the tricks effectively to this relatively little-seen setting, but he doesn't have much new to add to the mix.

This reverence for the Constitution is a noble and high-minded principal, but the Constitution is often not so much a rulebook as a battlefield.

In the split-second world of counterterrorism, "throwing out the rulebook," as portrayed in Hollywood movies and promoted by armchair warriors on TV and radio talk shows, is the wrong choice -- it's proven time and again to be ineffective and counterproductive.

In American football, if what would normally be a safety is scored on an extra point or two-point conversion attempt (officially known in the rulebooks as a try), one point is awarded to the scoring team.

Germany insisted on the 'stability pact' - the monetary union rulebook - as the price of its assent against tough resistance from Italy and France.

The Higgs, which is involved in giving other particles mass, is the keystone of the particle-physics rulebook known as the Standard Model.

Most baseball officials say that umpires have become more consistent in calling balls and strikes by the rulebook definition as years have passed.

With a new scandal, infraction or allegation coming out every two to three seconds in the college sports world, we thought it might be time to update and simplify the N.C.A.A. rulebook, especially as it pertains to student-athlete conduct.