Sentence examples for standing rules from inspiring English sources
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.
"In several instances where there was a legitimate threat, the choice of how to deal with that threat did not comply with the standing rules of engagement," said the military official, who provided a broad summary of the report's initial findings on the condition of anonymity because the inquiry was not yet complete.
After reviewing the appointment letter presented by a representative of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, Nancy Erickson, the secretary of the Senate, found that the paperwork did not comply with Rule II of the Senate's standing rules, which requires signatures of both the governor and the secretary of state.
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.
Lorne Craner, a foreign-policy thinker who worked for McCain in the House and Senate in the 1980s, told me that McCain had a standing rule in his office then.
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.
