Sentence examples for top-down rules from inspiring English sources

Sometimes they just institute top-down rules.

These laws were not suffocating top-down rules, but empowering legislation that made a real difference to people's lives.

Shorter's quartet celebrates humanity's hope for harmony without top-down rules, and it's probably the most skilful, mutually attuned and fearlessly adventurous small jazz group on the planet.

The march to make poverty history is also a highly organised affair, though I suspect the spirit of the 60s will remain, the solidarity with everyone you march alongside, the sharing of water and changing of nappies... Perhaps because of today's inescapable rules and regulations, it is when people are faced with the inflexible application of top-down rules that they become most exercised.

Transparent, flexible and fair top-down rules must synchronize the numerous bottom-up initiatives while addressing the diversity of national circumstances in the drastic transformation of the world's energy economies.

Rather than relying on flexible resource-use patterns (Galvin 2009), herders were constrained to highly regulated movements, modes of communications, and top-down rules that rarely incorporated employees' opinions or choices.

With unreasoning brutes, anything other than a top-down, rule-governed regime would result in chaos and collapse.

He declares himself emperor, re-establishing the top-down rule that had provoked the chaos and killing to begin with, and which, it turns out, is not at an end.

Myanmar's new system will resemble a democracy more in form than in substance, analysts say, but with the possibility of more debate and inclusiveness than under the junta's top-down rule.

Greece is part of Europe — you might say the heart of Europe (the euro symbol itself was designed after the Greek letter epsilon: a nod to the classical roots of modern Europe) — but in another sense, Greece is a remnant of the Ottoman Empire, that realm famous for top-down rule, bribery and looking the other way.

The desire for compromise, for understanding, for a peaceful way forward that encompasses as many participants as possible has little or no place in a tradition that, stretching back through the imperial millennia, puts a premium on top-down rule with force always lurking in the background to be used on dissidents who are portrayed as traitors to the received wisdom exercised by the rulers.