Sentence examples for up to the rules from inspiring English sources

"And you played up to the rules all the time, I'm sure of that," Wolff says.

Worse, if poor countries signed up to the rules, then failed to meet them, they would be vulnerable to trade sanctions.

That EU members often do not live up to the rules is no reason for the Balkans not to do so.

Yet when India, a democracy, exploded a bomb, it was deemed to be "naughty" for not living up to the rules of the club.

Mr. Kirk, generally supported by the business community as an advocate of expanded trade, said he did not come to the job with "deal fever" and would make his top priority assuring that existing trade partners live up to the rules in areas like labor rights and environmental protection that are already on the books.

The US has made it clear that China is welcome to join the TPP if it can demonstrate a willingness to live up to the rules being negotiated.

Here was a second mystery: among pirates, the fate of rulers was up to the ruled.

However, some inscriptions indicate that Balagamve in Mysore territory may have been a power centre up to the rule of Somesvara I in 1042.

Although he fails to live up to the rigid rules he has put down on paper, he probably comes as close to doing so as anyone could.

The build up to the change in rules created a self-fulfilling prophecy and rates did fall significantly, he says.

From the 1980s up to the early 2000s, hubris ruled.