Sentence examples for stretch the rules from inspiring English sources

I wasn't trying to stretch the rules.

Approving such loans, Mozilo conceded, meant that "lenders have had to stretch the rules a bit".

Poor officiating has also slowed the game as officials huddle endlessly over calls, while encouraging players to stretch the rules (including outlawed helmet-to-helmet hits).

Just as water will always find its level so too will a professional athlete find a way to stretch the rules.

Alternatively, they can stretch the rules; some banks are said to offer wealthy clients cheap loans if they recommend a friend as a deposit customer.

Other parts of the new agreement either stretch the rules or disregard years of precedent in Delaware, where both banks are incorporated.

But Becker and his coach, Gunther Bosch, and his manager, Ion Tiriac, clearly stretch the rule to its limits.

He said: "That was stretching the rules a bit.

The list of congressmen who have been stretching the rules gets longer by the day.

But we want to make your study time as comfortable as possible, so we are stretching the rules.

But the program has spawned cynical practices that are stretching the rules and violating the spirit of the law.