Sentence examples for unbending rule from inspiring English sources

As the company grew, it had one unbending rule — the business closed whenever the waves in the Pacific were running six feet high, hot and glassy.

Two companies, two women at the top, two sets of unbending rules.

But Francis also makes clear the vision he wants local bishops and priests to follow: as a church that greets families with empathy and comfort rather than with unbending rules and rigid codes of conduct.

Building on this concern, another group of 300 physicians, including three former drug "czars," released a letter last month warning of the dangers of nonconsensual dose reductions and appealing to the CDC to clarify that their guidelines were not intended as unbending rules.

She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.

But there are unbending rules, and the rules on not getting married outside are a minor compared with so many regulations held at high standards by the modern Church.

Is there something of substance in his message, that if we could only reconcile ourselves to The World As It Is and adapt to its unbending rules we could cast off our resentments and pursue our "heroic path" to an existence that would be, not happy – because this is an illusion – but meaningful?

His one unbending principle was the quest for the truth and the necessity of that pursuit.

One of my most unbending holiday rules is to fit in some high culture.

The purpose of sex is procreation within strict conventions, maintained by unbending social rules and selected religious doctrine.

For instance, a strict instructor may be unbending in their rules to the point of being unfair.