rule-book

Many believe that the campaign begun in 2001 by MLB official Sandy Alderson to call the rule-book strike zone - especially urging the umps to call more high strikes - is still favoring pitchers.

The Seattle Times 2011

He's helping to write a 21st-century rule-book -- or more precisely, a wiki of common grounds for corporations seeking to positively resolve humans/environmental-rights disputes with other humans.

Sharon Glassman: What is Work? Finding Your True Career in Life's Second Act Sharon Glassman 2010

Can the Senate just agree among themselves to ignore that part of the rule-book (constitution) and tell Joe Biden to just stay home, no need to break a 60-40 vote.

Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster 2010

Now the PAC identifies a couple of other negotiations where the standard rule-book was set aside in favour of "bespoke arrangements", which allowed top officials to come to a mutually agreeable understanding about which debts get written off and which get paid, and then sign-off on their own arrangements.

Business taxation: self assessment | Editorial 2011

Jacques Cailloux, chief euro-zone economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, thinks that the ECB would be better "breaking the rule-book than breaking up the euro area" and use this opportunity to take the helm to deliver the best bet to resolving the biggest crisis to afflict the euro since its launch in 1999.

ECB Leaves Rate At 1% Amid Greek Crisis 2010

After centuries in which the game and its equipment had evolved naturally and without major incident, finally the game had a rule-book definition for its racket.

Pulling All the Strings Jason Goodall 2010

Supreme Court at a stroke with Marbury v. Madison, one activist ruling from the British Supremes could tear up the conventional rule-book.

Jason Smith and the Court Tunku Varadarajan 2010

In this way, your charmed life can continue, far away from the critical gaze of the little people whose freedoms you may now abuse with impunity, and who must live by a massive rule-book whose million rubrics would put even those of Charlemagne and Ramses in the shade.

Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

Supreme Court at a stroke with Marbury v. Madison, one activist ruling from the British Supremes could tear up the conventional rule-book.

Jason Smith and the Court Tunku Varadarajan 2010

Supreme Court at a stroke with Marbury v. Madison, one activist ruling from the British Supremes could tear up the conventional rule-book.

Jason Smith and the Court Tunku Varadarajan 2010