It is the finishing school where they learn the rules of placing the left hand over the right while bowing at a Korean funeral, of not jabbing a fork into a bun during a meal with a Westerner and of rebuffing a suitor's attempts to hold hands at least three times.
If we use the rule of placing one penny on the first square, two pennies on the second square, three pennies on the third square, and so forth, we will end up with 64 pennies stacked on the last square.
"It's not the rules of the place," he declared.
It has also shown how the brutal rules of a place like Chechnya can reach from the Caucasus into Western Europe, where Mr. Israilov found refuge.
Cianci's application was seconded by a United States senator and two members of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, but his acceptance into the club was vetoed by someone who didn't like him, and — such are the icy rules of the place, apparently — he learned of his rejection only indirectly.
Lizza credits the Obama Administration for wrangling crucial votes: If you just ignored all the Byzantine rules of the place, and the ugliness of the legislative process, and you just looked at the results of this Senate, I don't think it looks all that bad by historical standards.
The majority of pupils have an appropriate understanding of times-tables, the four rules of number, place value and fractions.
What are the rules of this place?
Those were the rules of the place, she explained over the phone.
The rules of this place have changed due to The Mess, and we learn these new terms in navigating an abandoned Arcology at the heart of The Mess.
