The phrase "submit to the rules" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to mean that the speaker/writer is accepting and will follow a particular set of rules or regulations. For example, "If you want to work here, you must submit to the rules set forth in the employee handbook."
What he was trying to say was that each nation had to submit to the rules regardless of national votes, otherwise no system would work.
Aides to Dr. Frist said he would submit to the Rules Committee a plan to steadily decrease the votes needed to override such a filibuster from 60 to 57 to 54 to 51 on four succeeding votes over 13 days of Senate meetings.
The story of her wedding day and her struggle to tear off the white wedding dress, wrapping herself in old sacking and daubing her face with soot, shows a desperate but spirited young woman forced to submit to the rules of her culture.
Eighty percent of those polled by Pew who use the apps said that companies like Uber and Lyft "provide good jobs" for people who value flexibility, 57% of those who are familiar with the regulatory debate say the services should not have to submit to the rules that govern existing cab companies.
So people should submit to the rule of a properly trained religious scholar.
Around 60 militias sprang up in the heat of the rebellion and its aftermath, many of them loth to submit to the rule of the new central authority.
The new Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is determined that the Mahdi Army, as Mr Sadr's followers style themselves, should submit to the rule of law.
The foundation principles of a society in which citizens submit to the rule of law are that the guilty will be subject to proportional punishment and that the innocent will be vindicated through a fair and rigorous legal process.
But, conversely, Europeans must accept the logic of their own scruples: if Colombia is to bludgeon its rebels to submit to the rule of law on tougher terms it will need much more military aid.
If political leaders are interested in making elites pay their fair share of tax and submit to the rule of law, they should perhaps shift their attention from those who possess vast wealth and onto the people who serve them.
I haven't mastered the play-by-play but can at least recount the basics: Ashura commemorates the martyrdom of Shia Islam's tragic hero Imam Hussein, who died in battle after refusing to submit to the rule of Umayyad caliph Yazid the first.
