The British invented - or at least laid down the modern rules for - many of the world's most popular spectator sports, including cricket, tennis, golf, rugby and football.
But he is a strong, principled man and I know if he gets the job at a future date he will have laid down the ground rules first.
Far more important, however, are the rules laid down by the military council concerning powers the generals have kept for themselves.
The Court said that military commissions have historically been conducted within the confines of the rules laid down under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the UCMJ.
It broke several of the rules laid down for the competition to design a new opera house (in fact, two performance halls) on Bennelong Point, in Sydney.
According to the rules laid down in the festival program, owners are required to swear religious oaths that the stated age and lineage of their animals is correct.
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The rules of the game are laid down by the media and to stay in the game we have to play by those rules.
The Antigua Yacht Club split off the classics long before the La Nioulargue tragedy and has laid down rules that discourage the sort of vigorous maneuvers and confrontations that mark modern yacht racing.
Those are the ground rules that have been laid down by the IOC.
If there will be no resolution in the Security Council, it will be basically a failure of the international community to adhere to the basic rules that were already laid down with respect to the possible exit from the conflict about a month ago by the G8 leaders.
The current rules were laid down in three separate Uruguay round agreements.
As there is no precedent in modern times for the resignation of a pope, ecclesiastical lawyers are having to re-examine very carefully the rules for papal elections laid down in past centuries and updated most recently by Pope Benedict himself, our correspondent explains.
Undoubtedly, rules and limits must be laid down to ensure the effectiveness of the programme.
Rules on noise and emissions are laid down by the European Union but because Caterham is a small car producer compared to Ford and Toyota, each country also has its own set of rules.
He also quickly laid down a code of discipline as he enforced a set or rules including the requirement of the players to eat together, to take pride in their appearance and restricting mobile phones usage to the hotel room.
All building societies also have to accept the judgments of their ombudsman, but they draw up his rules rather than having them laid down by law.
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