Sentence examples for telling rules from inspiring English sources

After cataloguing examples, the Article gives accounts of why law gravitates toward particular combinations of asking and telling rules in various domains, and offers some normative evaluation of these strategies.

Sorry, she was told, rules are rules.

Yet coffee, we are told, rules the high street and our hearts (and certainly it rules the wallet).

"I try diets because I like to be told rules.

PDT, short for "please don't tell," rules with its unique and careful cocktail menu.

Bundy tells Rule of his illegitimate birth, how his grandmother posed as his mother.

It eliminated the "don't ask, don't tell" rule for gays serving openly in the military.

The military's odious "don't ask, don't tell" rule was finally legislated out of existence in 2011, under the administration's leadership.

The military's odious "don't ask, don't tell" rule was finally legislated out of existence, under the Obama administration's leadership.

As an anecdote that illustrates a bigger story about what's wrong with Wall Street the classic "show, don't tell" rule of narrative writing the book works.

As an anecdote that illustrates a bigger story about what's wrong with Wall Street--the classic "show, don't tell" rule of narrative writing--the book works.