The new rules speak to the suspicions that women's shelters still generate in this deeply conservative society, where the shelters have come to symbolize the competition between modern values and traditional Afghan ways.
This week Valdis Dombrovskis, a Latvian charged by Mr Juncker with overseeing the rules, spoke of being "by and large done with fiscal consolidation".All this is music to French ears.
As a female, I was expected to play by the rules, speak softly, wait my turn, and be grateful for any and all attention that came my way, whether I wanted said attention or not.
But more broadly, the rules speak to the kinds of hard choices and questions surfacing in communities across the West, where water supplies are being stretched to the limit by population growth and years of drought.
The commanders, who under military rules speak only on condition that their names not be published, said fighter pilots from the Enterprise had encountered some antiaircraft artillery on their initial strikes in Afghanistan, but had seen only a few surface-to-air missiles, all unguided and some shoulder-fired, and that none had posed a threat.
As large groups of people on either side follow the same instructions without enforcement or supervision, interpretations of these rules speak volumes.
The existing FCC policy principles that call for network neutrality, as well as every proposal to turn those principles into enforceable rules, speak to ensuring that broadband providers allow consumers "to access the lawful Internet content of their choice".
Do not add a sour feeling when you speak of the rules, speak of them as if they were classwork.
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's leftist president, had defined the legislative elections held yesterday as a plebiscite on his rule, spoken of the need to "demolish" the opposition and said that nothing less than a two-thirds super-majority in the 165-seat National Assembly would do.
