Sentence examples for unenforceable rule from inspiring English sources

The networks immediately disobeyed this unenforceable rule and showed the candidates in split screen.

Sehgal keeps no written or photographic record of his works; no written contracts are exchanged when he sells them; and notices in galleries ask people not to photograph them – an increasingly unenforceable rule (official or press photographs of his work may be scarce, but there are plenty of images online, mostly of Sehgal interpreters in passionate, mid-gallery clinches).

The legal merry-go-round stops, and we're back where we started – with unenforceable rules and an anarchic web.

But some farmers said the rules need to be changed, not just rewritten, to ensure greater equity between producers and eliminate unreasonable or unenforceable rules.

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — The N.C.A.A. Division I Board of Directors took the first step Saturday toward trying to simplify and deregulate the organization's often complex and sometimes unenforceable rules.

"If only she had been right," says the author, who sees it instead as a Trojan horse for "a clueless, inefficient bureaucracy… working tirelessly for politicians with an infinite capacity to recite unenforceable rules".

Most striking is that unlike many traditional grammar books, Clark's reserves its scolding not for students of writing, but for teachers who harbor unduly restrictive views — "members of the crotchety crowd" who "tend to turn their own preferences about grammar and language into useless and unenforceable rules".

But if you talk, as he does, of the gospel as something fresh and life-giving, rather than a set of rules, and if you see the church, as he does, as "a field hospital" for those wounded in life, then the immediate demands of pastoral care will naturally take precedence over baroque and unenforceable rules.

At the sports course I learned that the growing hysteria around paedophilia had led to a series of ridiculous and unenforceable rules being laid down that, if I had followed them, would have had me throwing six-year-old children off my back all day long.

"We do not want to create and impose arbitrary or unenforceable rules, or worse, inch our event towards a Talibanesque ban on exposure of skin," she told the BBC.

We can free college athletics from unenforceable rules only by digging deeper into the bedrock of the regulatory scheme.