Sentence examples for the rules proved from inspiring English sources

Mr. Leydon said he thought the beach guards' willingness to bend the rules proved that municipal beaches aren't overcrowded.

In Osaka, officials shrugged, and Kazuaki Tsuda, the head of a major business organization, cited the I.O.C.'s ban on member visits to bid cities. "The rules proved fatal," he said.

The rules proved reliable and robust and can therefore be used to guide the management of asymptomatic patients.

However, the party leadership is now stressing: "If the rules prove to be restricting prisoners' access to books, we will look at it".

The rule proved by the exception: a lot of design and innovation is coming to the vibrator category, reflecting a growing mainstream retail market.

Thus, where the rule proves effective, the potential for major conflict on the board is palpable.

The existing Basel 2 rules proved to be too lenient.

The rule-proving exception was Vijay Singh: after an illicit infraction he was ostracised by other players for years and greeted in icy silence when he won a major.

Life under the Soviet rule proved to be a soothing balm in contrast to the turbulent final years of the Ottoman Empire.

The resulting decision rule proved to be stable in 10,000 bootstrap samples.

I think more likely they bent the rules to prove what they knew to be true.