Sentence examples for rules rather than a from inspiring English sources
Mr. Corbett said, "I would view this as a carefully considered exception to the rules, rather than a flouting of them".
In the future, it will encourage investors to judge its results under standard accounting rules, rather than a nonstandard accounting measure that had previously been its principal gauge of profit and loss.
By iteratively repeating this procedure, it builds a set of modular If-Then rules, rather than a decision tree.
While you might expect a universe created by mathematical rules rather than an artist's eye and imagination to be bland and samey, No Man's Sky boasts tremendous depth and variety.
Or does Lord Moynihan's insistence that the bylaw is an eligibility rule rather than a sanction hold sway?
The result is widely being interpreted by analysts as a voter backlash against the scandal-ridden B.J.P. rule rather than a vote for the Congress.
Kazakhstan's senate, generally considered a rubber-stamp chamber, voted unanimously on Thursday to ask President Nursultan Nazarbayev to extend his current term in office until 2020 by holding a referendum on continuing his rule rather than a scheduled election.
(Such a "truth commission" has also been mooted in Indonesia, but there too it looks suspiciously like a ruse to give amnesty to those responsible for atrocities under former President Suharto's rule rather than a way of bringing the culprits to book).
Companies now must report on assets moved between levels, but it is not clear if they would have to disclose that the move came about because of a different interpretation of the rule, rather than a change in the availability of market information.
Phil's boss once suggested to him that he observe the spirit of the Golden Rule rather than a literal translation.
Update 12 25 p.m. PT: The Justice Department defended the Rule 41 changes in a statement provided to TechCrunch, saying that the adjustments amount to a small procedural difference in the rule rather than a Constitutional overhaul.
