Commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action.
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Examples for "rule"
Examples for "rule"
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Thousands of documents have been made public under the 30 year rule.
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Officials have previously said security forces are following the rule of law.
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Industry trade groups reiterated concerns that the rule could have negative effects.
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Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said the new rule emphasized local control.
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History: 'Long live the men who bring us the rule of law!
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If there's free space in the volume group, simply issue the command:
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Neither the right words nor the right conditions are at my command.
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Haven't heard anything about 'submitting' through my own 'chain of command' yet.
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One said cheekily, ''Tis the only ship Jake 'ere'll ever command, sir!'
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Changes in command necessitated adjustments that could give rise to new problems.
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Background: Medical schools' instruction of skills is often found to be inadequate.
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The purchase should be approved by Oct. 15, the government instruction said.
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To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3.
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The instruction was issued to the National Roads Authority late last month.
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Do the animals confront us for weekend entertainment or for serious instruction?
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Therefore, the first commandment for technologists is: Design technologies to swell happiness.
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I've added another commandment to my Most Violated List: no making images.
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These are the three senses of the first commandment in their order.
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Apply this commandment to all artforms and remember: don't join the dots.
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The two ideas of commandment and love do not go well together.
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It's a bread-and-butter legal precept meant to prevent people who live in California from having to answer to lawsuits in Texas, for example.
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The union rejected those proposals, saying that they would be "contrary to legal precepts".
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A final effect of Europe's activism may be in US legal norms.
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His ability to ignore moral considerations, legal norms, and basic human compassion makes him both a dangerous and resourceful foe.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnia-Herzegovina has admitted ignoring legal norms to hand six Algerian-born men to US forces, who then flew them to the controversial Guantánamo Bay prison.
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The Foreign Ministry in Moscow issued a statement denouncing the "unprovoked action", which ran counter to the UN Charter and other international legal norms.
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At Turner's sentencing, Persky bizarrely praised Turner for having "complied with social and legal norms sort of above and beyond what normal law-abiding people do".
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My legal rule has been that I never take what I can get given me.
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Viewed in the sense intended-asthe formulation of a legal rule for the interpretation and construction of a written instrument-thestatement compels assent.
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Indeed, under the well-established legal rule of corporate individuality, it would not be licit to expect them to commit suicide in this fashion.
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Leonard sat down at his desk, placed the light close by and began a sweating search for the legal rule applicable to salvage.
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Britain has a political constitution consisting only partly of legal rules.
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A final effect of Europe's activism may be in US legal norms.
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His ability to ignore moral considerations, legal norms, and basic human compassion makes him both a dangerous and resourceful foe.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnia-Herzegovina has admitted ignoring legal norms to hand six Algerian-born men to US forces, who then flew them to the controversial Guantánamo Bay prison.
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The Foreign Ministry in Moscow issued a statement denouncing the "unprovoked action", which ran counter to the UN Charter and other international legal norms.
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At Turner's sentencing, Persky bizarrely praised Turner for having "complied with social and legal norms sort of above and beyond what normal law-abiding people do".