Sentence examples for to abandon rules from inspiring English sources

After fierce debate, residents decided to abandon rules that required them, upon moving, to sell their shares back to the cooperative at the original price.

We couldn't just let him win the game like that, said North Coach Barry Alvarez of Wisconsin, who before the game was worried the teams would abandon rules that prevent blitzing and rushing the kicker.

Peterhead skippers, burning the log books in which they are obliged to record their activities, argued that they were entitled to abandon their rules since the executive had ignored Parliament.This is not the first time that the coalition has been under strain; this time, though, Henry McLeish, the embarrassed first minister, declared that "enough is enough".

Trio: Shawn, Mark and Derek decided to abandon the rules in their tribal samba and the performance left the judges split.

Virginia became the first state since President Donald Trump abandoned rules to reduce power plant emissions to begin drafting rules to replace the federal mandate.

But the validity of this process on the utilitarian framework holds for all cases of exceptions, and so the 'rules' will have as many 'sub-rules' as there are exceptional cases, which, in the end, is to abandon the rule and be guided by the principle of utility, to seek out whatever outcome produces the maximum utility.

"This rule provides due process, and it would be a mistake to abandon that rule because you have one or even a few instances where people go out and do bad things," Arulanantham said.

"Crisis is not an excuse to abandon the rule of law," argued Lloyd Karmeier, one of the judges.

In a thinly-veiled reference to Guantánamo and torture he promised not to abandon the rule of law and human rights "for expedience's sake".

They also follow a public demand last December by more than 300 intellectuals and dissidents for China to abandon Communist rule and move toward a more democratic system.

My Confucian friends have criticized the government's clumsy attempts to shut down debate about Charter 08, a manifesto published in 2008 which urged the Communist Party to abandon monopoly rule and establish a multiparty system of government.