Sentence examples for settled rules from inspiring English sources

A new individual owner could be determined in one of four ways: ownership by the first taker, a practice that would produce strife and disorder; reassignment by a governmental agency, which would constitute an exercise of power regarded as dangerous in a free society; reallotment in accordance with settled rules generally fixed for all; or reallotment in accordance with the wishes of the decedent.

He was especially anxious to make it clear that he included in "utility" the pleasures of the imagination and the gratification of the higher emotions; and to make a place in his system for settled rules of conduct.

Both sides say they have been playing by settled rules and accuse the other of trying to change them midstream.

Lower courts are theoretically bound but there are no settled rules for what part of a precedent is binding, so courts can pretend to follow precedent while ignoring it.

"It seems that there's a computer that makes most of the decisions for you — it changes a lot of the rules, it removes a lot of the skill," said Ken Koury, a competitive Monopoly player and coach who informally settles rule disputes for others.

As chief equity judge, he granted the injunction as a remedy more often than earlier lords chancellor had generally done and settled the rules for its use.

The federal government settled on rules on Thursday for a controversial plan to auction flight slots at the three largest airports in the New York region in a final attempt by the Bush administration to alleviate chronic air traffic congestion.

For once, therefore, countries have settled the rules before an activity gets under way, rather than trying to catch up when the damage starts, as happened with fishing.The problem here is political rather than regulatory: how should mining revenues be distributed?

When the political branches are at odds with another, we get a glimpse of the dangers that Locke perceived in the state of nature and that the Framers perceived in representative government -- and we have a pressing need for a conclusive determination of what the "settled, standing rules" set forth in the Constitution require.

Jon Stewartrecently mocked the British system on "The Daily Show," saying that the country appeared to have settled for rule by "gentlemen's agreement" because it believes written constitutions are vulgar.

After the end of the Boer War, Trenchard saw service in Nigeria where he was involved in efforts to bring the interior under settled British rule and quell inter-tribal violence.