But my feeling is that Woods has earned the right to flout the rules observed by mere mortals.
Under rules observed at the four Grand Slam tournaments, Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina, seeded fifth, moves from the bottom half of the draw into Nadal's slot at the top of the draw.
Afterward, Raleigh, who recognizes a children's-game sort of attitude about rules, observes, "It all seems rather silly, doesn't it?" It takes a wise old soul or a true innocent to see that.
Cartoonists and caricaturists have a similar working relationship to an idea or theme as a professional boxer has to an opponent: they may win by a knockout, but gloves must be worn and rules observed.
Along with the familiar burgers and fries, customers have the option of meals that conform with the dietary rules observed by Orthodox Christians during Lent: essentially vegan, though shellfish are allowed.
Under somewhat abstruse rules, observed often in the breach or according to ad hoc negotiation that rarely goes the customer's way, a passenger may require a black-cab driver to provide transport to any point within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross station near Trafalgar Square.
(2) Insignificant fuzzy rules observed over time based on their statistical contributions are pruned to truncate the rule base complexity and redundancy.
Evaluation of these preferences showed that they complied almost perfectly with the rules observed by Elf et al. for the codon usage by E. coli [ 39].
If communities are structured deterministically according to assembly rules, observed communities should have higher C-scores, fewer unique species combinations, and more checkerboard species pairs than expected under the null model.
Like the British Museum, with its aisle and aisles of mummies and marble statuary looted from Greece and Egypt during the peak of empire, the subtext of a visit to the old Louvre was the visually documented story of great power: Look where we have gone, see where we rule, observe the rules conquest and how the story of conquest is to be told.
