Sentence examples for standing rule from inspiring English sources

The rule is Standing Rule XXII of the Senate.

A harsh headmaster had a standing rule that students had to take off shoes or boots before entering the classroom.

Before kick-off the Manchester police could be seen enforcing a strict "no persistent standing" rule inside the stadium.

8. David Cross had to fight for the mustache worn by his character, Tobias Funke, because Fox executive Gail Berman had a standing rule for men in comedies: no hats, no mustaches, no fluffy shirts.

After the teams converged on the field, umpires ejected both Payton and Lima and warned both teams not to throw at hitters, as part of baseball's new enforcement of a standing rule.

David Cross had to fight for the mustache worn by his character, Tobias Funke, because Fox executive Gail Berman had a standing rule for men in comedies: no hats, no mustaches, no fluffy shirts.

Discretionary interventions should be on top of standing rules, not instead of them.

During a speech at the Brookings Institution, a policy research center, General Dempsey said these new "standing rules of engagement" for military actions remained in draft form, and had not yet been approved.

This week, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, announced, essentially by executive decree, that the Obama Administration would no longer enforce the standing rules on mandatory-minimum sentencing for drug offenders — at least, not for otherwise unoffending individuals.

They concluded, for example, that the "standing rules of engagement" that control the response of American troops to threats -- and that in the Cole's case prohibited guards from firing pre-emptively on approaching boats -- were adequate.

That explanation and the procedure is laid out in Rule X, Clause 11, paragraph (g) of the House of Representatives' standing rules.