Given this tendency, it makes sense that we often rely intuitively on external rules to help ourselves out.

考虑到这个倾向，这也就说得过去为什么我们总是不自觉的地依赖外界的约束来使自己摆脱困境。

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Based on my theory and practical work on register filling of housing ownership in the autonomous regions and external rules, some personal views are given.

就本人在理论和实际工作中对自治区房屋权属登记簿的填制和对外利用规则谈谈个人的粗浅认识。

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For example, they can be implemented as rules external to the workflow.

例如，它们可能作为工作流的外部规则来实现。

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Incipient external imbalances, according to the rules of the game, were supposed to be corrected by governments allowing automatic correcting adjustments within their economies and supplementing them with monetary and fiscal policies.

FORBES: Currency Manipulation

The new rules would apply immediately to all external sovereign debt.

ECONOMIST: IMF/World Bank meetings

Another benefit is that large firms are increasingly imposing standardised style and terminology rules across all their internal and external documents, including reports and web pages.

ECONOMIST: Machine translation