Sentence examples for rules the idea from inspiring English sources

If fairness means that everyone plays by a shared set of rules, the idea that the process was ever fair is just a naïve assumption.

Neither had the governor ruled the idea out, he said.

But you know the end of 13 years of one-party rule, the idea of change is probably good".

Mr Letwin regards Mr Brown's "golden rule" (the idea that government borrowing over the cycle must not exceed net investment) as far too permissive.

In an interview with Portuguese newspaper Publico, the winger said he had not considered a return to Manchester but refused to rule the idea out.

Robinson pressed him on this, and Cameron did not rule the idea out: The best thing to do is to take one step at a time.

It could matter that the House of Representatives violated the Hastert rule — the idea that that a bill should receive a majority of votes from members of the majority party in the House – in passing the bill.

He believes the Rooney Rule, the idea of an extremely rich white American, could swell the number of black managers in English football beyond the pitiful level now represented by Paul Ince of Notts County and Chris Powell of Charlton Athletic.

A proposal to discuss a bigger NATO role in Afghanistan was recently approved 19-0.Most NATO diplomats say it is too early to discuss the alliance's role in Iraq but nobody seems willing to rule the idea out.

Oh, the euro-zone's fiscal and monetary policies are wrong; best wait for that to be sorted out too.Perhaps it would have made more sense therefore to rule the idea out for years, or for ever?

A survey by Gartner, a consultancy, showed that nearly half of British consumers would be happy to buy insurance from data-rich companies like Amazon or Google; less than 20% ruled the idea out flatly.