Sentence examples for rules or standards from inspiring English sources

There are no rules or standards, making every race different.

"I don't think we should be driven to throw out any rules or standards for the sake of haste," he said, "and generally I don't think we do".

"Because the Judicial Conference is an instrument for the management of the lower federal courts, its committees have no mandate to prescribe rules or standards for any other body," Roberts wrote.

However, the combination of an entrepreneurial, commercial firm culture and a decentralized organization with few rules or standards can itself increase the risk of litigation.

Conduct disorder is a type of maladjusted behaviour characterized by a consistent pattern of harming others or their property, or breaking major accepted rules or standards of behaviour.

Community norms involve the social group's shared expectations and beliefs about the ways community members should act (Thogersen 1999); they are the community's rules or standards that are widely recognized by its members and that contribute to social behavior (Cialdini and Trost 1998).

An earlier appropriations bill amendment by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) proposed cutting the agency's water off by "prohibit[ing] the FCC from using any appropriated funds to adopt, implement or otherwise litigate any network neutrality based rules, protocols or standards".

Like in evolution, the process does not change toward some fixed goal according to some fixed rules, methods or standards, but rather it changes away from the pressures exerted by anomalies on the reigning theory (Kuhn 1962, 170 173).

"Today's ruling supports OSHA's position that, even in the absence of a specific rule or standard, employers are still legally responsible for providing a place of employment free of recognized hazards that are likely to cause serious injury or death".

Norm, also called Social Norm, rule or standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group.

"While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings," he said.