Sentence examples for rules prevailed from inspiring English sources

They were given a passport instead of a ticket, underlining the notion that different social rules prevailed.

If current accounting rules prevailed, it would have had a profit of $6.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2001.

But Chinati rules prevailed: no photographs.

"I think what the president did this morning was try to shed some light on the fact that if ordinary rules prevailed, the majority ruled in the Senate, the government would be open today".

That hasn't changed, but in one corner of The Times, different rules prevail.

The upheavals of the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries have not had much effect on Eastern Orthodox vesture, and the same canons (rules) prevail today in Orthodoxy as obtained prior to the fall of Constantinople in the 15th century.

The problem of the interaction between academia and industry arises especially in the first case because market rules prevail.

In New Jersey, where these kinds of destructive rules prevail, a family of four buying insurance pays an average of $19,000 a year.

As commissar for nationalities, he sought to ensure that Moscow rule prevailed.

An unwritten rule prevailed that, except for the prime minister, the government had to include as many Flemish- as French-speaking ministers.

In Ohio the courts ruled that having 50% black ancestry, a single black parent or two mixed parents, made a person black – and hence socially and politically inferior – while in Louisiana, the "one drop" rule prevailed, and any traceable amount of Negro ancestry denied one certain legal rights, including the right to vote and the right to marry a person of another race.