Examples
“In it Rawls distinguished between what he called the ˜summary™ conception of rules, in which rules are merely ˜rules of thumb™ i.e., guides to behavior based on reports of prior actions and their outcomes, and the”
“It would have been a great help: but still it is not indispensable: after all, it is only the putting into rules of the way in which _every_ mind proceeds, when it draws valid conclusions; and, by practice in careful thinking, you may get to know "fallacies" when you meet with them, without knowing the formal _rules_.”
“I suppose I should read rules or something .. * off to look for rules*”
“˜generally useful™ rules, though these are ˜rules of thumb™ and there may be circumstances in which it is right (that is obligatory) to break them.”
“$user - > lang [ 'RULES_ATTACH_CAN']: $user - > lang [ 'RULES_ATTACH_CANNOT']; foreach ($rules as $rule) $template - > assign_block_vars ( 'rules', array ( 'RULE' = > $rule)); return;”
“Sir Dudley Ryder, (then Attorney-General, afterwards Chief-Justice,) in his learned argument, observed, that "it is extremely proper that there should be _some_ general rules in relation to evidence; but _if exceptions were not allowed to them, it would be better to demolish all the general rules_.”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
“CIA officials would not discuss the covert program, but a senior U.S. official acknowledged that a misunderstanding had emerged because the term "rules of engagement" meant different things to the former Army general and to civilian analysts.”
“Ma'am, with all due respect, I teach competitive debate to high schoolers and one of the main rules is that when a person starts making blanket statements and coming up with conspiracy theories rather than providing actual evidence to back up his or her arguments, that person is getting desperate and is losing the debate round.”
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
“Obama liked the phrase rules of the road and had used it during the campaign to describe what Wall Street needed.”
“The most recent and most directly applicable for businesses that are currently hurt by competitors not playing by the rules is the Fair Playing Field Act of 2010 (H.R. 6128) which was introduced in September by Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rules’.
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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numberless's Words
agency, collaboration, constraint, design, interactivity, iteration, play, reaction, rules, system, games
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Tunie: Girl in the War
Peter said to Paul, "you know all those words we wrote
Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go."
But now talking to God is Laurel begging Hardy for a gun.words, rules, god, begging, done, pretend, know, music, pray, keys, girl, war and 7 more...
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Stuffie: Metamorphosis
Stuffie #6. Stuff you change.
clothes, sheets, subject, mind, plans, lanes, channels, formats, direction, up, light bulb, color and 21 more...
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Teen Drinking
identification, curfew, alcohol, telephone, behavior, attitude, panic, moody, involved, aware, notice, normally and 15 more...
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Tunie: Danny's All-Star Joint
by Rickie Lee Jones.
Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint
They got a jukebox that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, he stays in the back all day
But when the nighttime...pocket, business, lawn, street, fun, rules, hep-scat, be-bop, chicken, matzoh, girdle, magazine and 38 more...
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Spanish21's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rules.
oroboros Turning to his younger apprentice one god said,
"In this business there are two most important rules:
Rule Number One:
Never tell anyone every thing you know."
--Jan Cox May 22, 2007