The exception that tests the rule is the collateralized bond obligation (CBO).
Try to test the rules (like head and shoulders patterns) and they will say that the rules only work when they are interpreted correctly.
Manchester United's ability to sign the midfielder will depend on their resolve to test the rules governing buy-out clauses in Spain and the response of the league and the tax authorities to their actions.
Grown women are governed and regimented as if they, too, were still in class, and their individual temperaments unfurl as they try to work the system, testing the rules to check how far you can bend them before they snap.
Her novels evoked mutant societies that emerged from viral infection, alien symbiosis and extraterrestrial eugenic programmes; her fiction sought to call normative values into question by testing the rules of attraction and repulsion.
The Italians too are testing the rules of the fiscal pact with a budget which includes tax cuts for workers and firms.
In order to test the rules obtained in each generation of the genetic evolution process, a real robot has been used.
And to test the rules of queuing etiquette, I forced myself to conduct experiments involving a deadly sin: queue-jumping.
There's one more dynamic in a competitive market system like ours that adds to complexity: people are forever trying to push the envelope, test the rules, game the system.
Thirteen clubs would have failed the break-even tests if the rules were applied now.
