Sentence examples for rules decree from inspiring English sources

No. WTO rules decree simply that countries should protect the environment in ways that do not discriminate because of the way something is produced.

But as part of efforts to systematize the retirement of senior leaders, unofficial rules decree: "qi shang, ba xia," meaning, "seven rises, eight retires".

Team time trials are usually held on stage four or five of Grand Tours; UCI rules decree they "shall take place during the first third of the race" in order to give teams as fair a chance as possible of fielding a full-strength line-up in a discipline where the time of the fifth man to cross the finishing line is the one recorded.

The rules decree that "at the end of the year, you can't carry over more than 25% of what they give you.

Initially, the only rules decreed no biting and no eye gouging.

Now middle-aged, she rules, decreeing a world of political correctness and 20mph speed limits.

The nighttime rules decreed that I was helpless, dependent, totally taken care of.

In 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) tightened up the rules, decreeing that headteachers could authorise absences during term-time only in "exceptional circumstances" such as funerals.

They require an enormous amount of cash upfront and come with all sorts of rules decreed by the various leagues, including limits on the amount that can be financed and restrictions on what the principal owner can do with the franchise.

Like Hearst, Murdoch flouts the rules decreeing strict separation of journalism and politics and of news and entertainment, is hated by the respectable classes, lives lavishly, and sits atop a great pile of media holdings — much greater, thanks to globalization and the advent of new technologies, than Hearst's ever was.

In the holy city of Najaf, ISCI's heartland, a new rule decrees that former Baathists must be purged from government and chased out of town.