Sentence examples for rules retreat from inspiring English sources

(August 2013) As puritanical rules retreat, the American market for beer and spirits is growing more competitive (September 2012).

They should scrap ownership rules and retreat from anything but technical and safety matters.

Just substitute "free-market capitalism" for "big government," "the New Deal" for "the era of Reagan," and everything else — the defensive contempt toward popular rule, the retreat into the comfort of a purified "philosophy," the denunciations of unnamed appeasers within the ranks, the call to "stamp out" middle-way weaklings — is the same.

Obama administration officials said they did not consider the new rule a retreat, only a minor change.

(This rule about retreating does not apply to the cops).

Critics denounced the changes as a retreat from rules now in place that require factories to make investments in pollution control equipment.

Ali al-Noaimi, a prominent UAE columnist for the state-run newspaper al-Ittihad, said the Gulf states were ready for a ground intervention but were hoping the air strikes would create "paralysis and shock" among the Houthis and energise the popular opposition to their rule, compelling them to retreat and avoid the need for a land offensive.

Debating the presumptive distinctions between a "stand your ground" jurisdiction and a "retreat-rule" jurisdiction is a largely futile argument over nuanced differences that law professors relish, but whose fine points rarely matter in a life-or-death situation out in the street.

A weak rule on swaps is an "indefensible retreat" from tougher regulation and a "poster child for the pernicious effect of industry's army of lobbyists".

All good detective stories offer a pillowy retreat into the rules and reliable expectations of the genre; the only real difference is one of tone: dark or light.

But critics denounced the changes as a retreat from tougher rules now in place that require factories to make costly investments in pollution control equipment when they modernize.