"A rule is a rule, " Guan's father, Han Wen, said after his son was penalized.
The NBA does have a rule that its teams must have a nickname, but this is a fussy rule.
Legal academics call this substituting a property rule for a liability rule.
But I would propose an exemption to the a promise is a promise rule, and that's the immortal-genius-a-person-of-historical-importance exemption, very much akin to your put-it-away-for-a-generation.
Peru needs a more skilled workforce, a stronger rule of law, a reduction in burdensome regulations, and a commercial code that promotes entrepreneurship.
It's a broad genre, but as a general rule, they give off a summery vibe with flavored syrups, fruit juices and, of course, rum.
Starbucks operates as both a rule maker and a rule breaker.
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In the lawsuit, livery companies charged that the yearlong pilot program was used as a guise for a rule change after Mr. Yassky failed to assemble the needed votes.
It also strengthened a 1979 rule prohibiting players from using their helmets to butt, or "spear" players during a tackle -- a rule that critics often complained had lacked enforcement.
Still, for years afterwards the Republicans were able to wield great influence as a minority party thanks to a rule that required a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers to pass a budget.
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It also recently strengthened a 1979 rule that prohibits players from using their helmets to butt, or "spear" players during a tackle -- a rule that critics had often complained lacked official enforcement.
As border barriers fell, it became clear that domestic regulations were also a big impediment to trade: a subsidy or a discriminatory rule could shut out imports just as effectively as a tariff.
While it is true that a minimum wage would increase the pay for those professors able to get a job, such a rule would also entail greater unemployment among persons qualified to become professors.
This winter Ace's U.S.-based competitors raised a stink about a tax rule that enables a corporate parent in Bermuda to import premiums free of corporate income tax by reinsuring some policies sold by its American subsidiary.
When Mr. Abrams complained to the landlord, he was told that his two dogs in the apartment violated a rule barring pets in rental apartments, a rule that he said in court papers had never been enforced.
In a conference call on Thursday, the league's competition committee unveiled a list of proposals that included a rule in which a runner or tackler will no longer be able to initiate contact with the crown of his helmet.
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Various rules have been proposed, including a price-level rule (zero inflation), an inflation target rule (2 percent inflation), a nominal GDP target, and a Taylor rule designed to control the growth of nominal income by controlling the monetary base.
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Often we accept people into our social networks by extension of trust, i.e. a friend of a friend, so a good rule of thumb might be to question how well you really know a person before accepting a new friend request.
During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
"I didn't know that there was even a rule on the book, and I think the rule had come into play maybe a year prior to the relationship, and I don't ever even remember reading such a rule, but you know, it talked about disclosure, " Kearney said.
On January 23, 2012, doing its best imitation of Inspector Javert and after learning that Douglas had returned to the U.S., the SEC filed a Motion for a Rule to Show Cause and for an Order of Civil Contempt, requesting that the Court hold Douglas in contempt for a second time.
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Before then a fund could be penalized for having too large a percentage of its profits from "short-term" gains--a painful rule given that a gain on a short sale is always treated as short-term, however long the position is held.
Himself an engineer and mathematician who proudly wears a pocket protector and says he still uses a slide rule, Fisher has chosen a very different kind of executive as his likely successor.
Baron Cohen and his film's distributor, Universal Pictures, have meanwhile been impervious to a flood of lawsuits that have emerged from angry individuals who appeared in the film thanks to a team of legal heavyweights, a carefully constructed legal framework and a rule that all people who appeared in the film sign consent forms.
The telecoms regulator Ofcom has started a consultation on such a rule, in response to hundreds of complaints about surprise price rises.
The radio had stayed on all the summer long, so finally it was a sound that as a rule they did not notice.
It is a democratic country with a rule of law.
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Or they could forge a middle ground, and establish a rule that if win-based incentives exceed a certain percentage of the total bonus package, the school is subject to various sanctions already imposed by the NCAA, including but not limited to loss of scholarships or bowl games participation.
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In theory, it wasn't a bad plan: a no-bailout rule and a ban on the ECB financing governments were supposed to force countries to manage their economies prudently.
The conservative majority might find a way to craft a new rule limiting such class actions to more narrowly defined groups.
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