He didn't think I was using the rules properly".
However, using the rules as a general, meaningful guideline, even if you have to be flexible at times, is wise".
And using the drug laws, they say, would provide tighter control than an alternative approach of using the rules governing food additives.
Mr. Murkowski said that by not allowing a straight majority vote, Mr. Daschle was "using the rules to subvert the will of the majority of the Senate".
But if you were to build a computer using the rules of quantum mechanics, it would be able to solve this much faster, within a minute or so.
In the House, an adept Speaker with a majority can herd her entire party caucus, using the Rules Committee, which decides what legislation gets to the floor.
Red Bull kept ahead of their rivals by showing a great ingenuity in using the rules to their advantage as Sebastian Vettel won four straight titles.
Mr. Gramm was a master of procedure as well, using the rules to block initiatives he opposed while spouting Texasisms and driving his legislative foes batty.
Under a policy announced in 2008, the F.D.A. is regulating genetically engineered animals as if they were veterinary drugs and using the rules for those drugs.
Axiomatic set theorems are the axioms together with statements that can be deduced from the axioms using the rules of inference provided by a system of logic.
Ben Carreras, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who models the grid on computers, said that using the rules to control the behavior of the grid was sometimes like using a naturalists' handbook to tame a tiger.
