Sentence examples for rules fixing from inspiring English sources

Protestant ethics thus undermines the distinction between the two faces of morality: on the one hand, normative requirements cannot be defined in terms of rules fixing minimally prescribed behavior; on the other hand, every religiously good behavior is obligatory.

While world leaders were trying to agree on rules fixing terms for compensation and financial soundness, a far less visible set of officials was at work deciding which companies can stay in business and how much business they can have.

Other rules fix a time limit for each fight.

The irony is that this case, whatever its merits, will help get those rules fixed.

A country counts as free only if its government is bound by the rule of law, which, according to Hayek, "means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand".

Usually, language just about holds to its rules, fixes the world into some kind of symbolic network, and passes without too much trouble between the one who is speaking and the one who is addressed.

The idea that introduction and/or elimination rules fix the sense of a logical constant is often motivated by talk of the rules as defining the constant.

The issues examined include series-splitting rules, fixed versus rolling origins, updating versus recalibration of model coefficients, fixed versus rolling windows, single versus multiple test periods, diversification through multiple time series, and design characteristics of forecasting competitions.

The truth-value of complex sentences in propositional logic are completely determined by the truth-values of the atomic sentences they contain together with the rules fixed by the truth-tables of the connectives occurring in the complex sentences.

Recording was carried out taking into account the rules fixed by the Research Ethics Committee of the Universidad de Caldas which provides guidelines and supervision during those procedures involving human beings.

It is in this sense that these rules "fix the meaning" of the constant: "they are such that if strong semantic assumptions of a general kind are made, then the specific semantics of the individual logical constants is thereby determined" (313).