The company's rule of thumb used to be that 30% of sales should come from products introduced in the last four years.
MPs argue that the deal breaks the treaty's rule of a single eight-year term for the president, they are unlikely to try to block it.
The organisation's rule of thumb is that each of its volunteers should produce three extra volunteers in the charitable organisations they work with, since the biggest single encouragement to volunteerism is getting to hear about a programme that works.
Meanwhile the EU's rule-of-law mission, EULEX, is crucial while Kosovo's own judiciary is in its infancy.
"When all the distractions and diversions have been made, at the end of it all we're about one mighty task, and that's vindicating the rule of law, " Hyde said.
On his philosophy, Britain's rejection of home rule made the mutual estrangement of the two islands inevitable.
The decree transformed a farce into yet another example of Mr Berlusconi's contempt for the rule of law, of a piece with a new draft law to allow ministers to delay criminal trials against them.
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For tax-conscious investors, it's a good rule of thumb to sell losers while holding onto winners.
But it's a basic rule of politics: If you can't disprove the message, you try to discredit the messenger.
Analysts say the match-fixing allegations could undermine Singapore's reputation for rule of law and its tough stance on corruption.
Analysts say the match-fixing allegations could call Singapore's reputation for rule of law and a tough stance on corruption into question.
But apparently when Bush does it, he's vindicating the rule of law.
During Suharto's rule, discussion of religious, class and ethnic grievances was suppressed.
Closer home, Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri is reaping the windfall of widespread nostalgia for her father's presidency (the excesses of Sukarno's rule having been conveniently forgotten).
Here's a good rule of thumb: If your total student loan debt exceeds the amount you expect to earn in your first year out of school, you're borrowing too much.
These grievances have been felt for a long time, but under Mr Suharto's rule open discussion of religious and ethnic disputes was prohibited, forcing the issues underground, and perhaps hardening attitudes.
Afghanistan's courts and its rule of law will ultimately provide the most obvious illustration of whether the country's emerging democracy is earning the public's respect.
It is a cruel turnabout of Mr Khatami's pledge to introduce the rule of law.
Pakistan's top judiciary, led by the chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, was at the receiving end of Gen Musharraf's controversial imposition of emergency rule in 2007, our correspondent says.
And Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, has something like 8 billion barrels remaining, but it was damaged by overproduction in the latter years of Saddam's rule and won't likely regain its peak of 700, 000 bpd.
This week its leader, Khaleda Zia, appointed her son, Tarique Rahman, for many the symbol of all that was wrong with the BNP's last period of kleptocratic, vindictive rule, as the party's deputy chairman.
He looks, for example, to England's historically smallish, nuclear families for an explanation of the country's early adoption of markets and the rule of law.
Under four-and-a-half years of Ms Mayawati's rule, the state has recorded an average of over 7% growth a year, a tad less than India's average of 8.15%.
Reverting from revolutionary fervour to habits inculcated during the long years of Mr Mubarak's rule, weary Egyptians seem inclined to tune out of such disputes.
Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule also has strained relations with Bhutto, who shares his secularist, pro-Western views.
C. didn't object to the Merc's interpretation of the rule, intended to prevent market manipulation, not keep out competition.
At best, then, the report highlights the debilitating effect on Pakistan's institutions of its periodic spells of military rule.
In stark contrast, online piracy opponents are working within the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution to enforce the rule of law.
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