Sentence examples for twisted rule from inspiring English sources

Del Toro told me that, in imagining the monster, he had settled on a twisted rule: the Pale Man could "engage in gluttony only if a kid indulged in gluttony.

But especially since the global financial crisis, the government has been widely accused of twisting rules in favour of its state-owned or, sometimes, private-sector favourites.

The opposition boycotted, saying the government had twisted the rules so much that fair competition was impossible.

Kate Kelly, public lands director at the left-leaning Center for American Progress and a former Interior Department official in the Obama administration, said in an emailed statement that the report "is not a good look for Ryan Zinke, painting a picture of a Secretary inclined to twist rules for personal gain".

Someone, in their bedroom, will be twisting the rules, experimenting with the formula, to create something fresh.

The McQuaid bat is straight when this is put to him: "That is a fallacy being put out there by Brian and his people, to say that I'm twisting the rules or getting the rules twisted.

They accuse him of twisting Senate rules to ram through an outrageously partisan agenda.

And should any candidate win by twisting the rules, he will forever regret it.

Advertisers merrily twist the rules, using a tiny font for the translation, or inventing logos in indigestible franglais.

Yet most French reporting of these two cases, egged on by Mr Estrosi, has drawn a caricature of wicked bosses twisting the rules to exploit workers.

In 1996 communists almost won the presidential elections; by twisting the rules, he saved himself and his country.Civil war and hunger were averted, but Mr Yeltsin's compromises allowed authoritarianism to revive.