Sentence examples for rules failed from inspiring English sources
The rules failed utterly.
An attempt to relax Virginia's anti-sodomy rules failed.
In some cases, licensing rules failed to keep pace with changing diplomatic circumstances.
In June, a measure to delay the effective date of the new rules failed in the Senate.
See articleAn attempt to end the British opt-out from the EU's maximum working-time rules failed.
As the 2015 Rugby World Cup progresses, we should be thankful that one of the game's original rules failed to survive the past 170 years.
As Twain observed: "All the rules fail in this girl's case.
But when those rules fail, the markets assert their own grim discipline.
When those rules fail, the owners push to tighten them, the better to avoid future mistakes.
Global trade rules fail to take account of these questions of environmental justice and even self-regulatory systems premised on fair trade may reinforce social and environmental injustice.
Crawford [Econometrica 42 (1974) 885; J. Econ. Behavior Organ. 6 (1985) 69] has presented a striking example in which plausible adaptive learning rules fail to locate a straightforward mixed-strategy equilibrium.
