1 Our factory has a hard and fast rule against smoking.

2 I'm afraid that the court might rule against us.

3 The literal rule is a rule against using intelligence in understanding language.

4 In order to invoke the rule against prior restraint, the defendant must state on affidavit his intention to justify the allegation.

5 Otherwise, the rule against prior restraint must prevail in libel actions.

6 Bill Clinton has broken the rule against electing the weepy.

7 Like most great rules, the rule against the passive voice has exceptions.

8 I also instituted a rule against accepting hospitality from the press.

9 A rule against griping is perfectly understandable.

10 The practice offends the time-honoured rule against prior restraint,[] which safeguards freedom of expression in this country.

11 We must make it a hard and fast rule against smoking in the office.

12 Hearsay rule is also known as the exclusionary rule against hearsay, i. e. , hearsay is inadmissible in court.

13 The old rule against stranding a preposition at the end of a clause, like "whom we've worked with", was a peeve of the 17th-century essayist John Dryden.

14 She must have broken her rule against drinking that night.

15 The principle of exhaustion, which resembles the general rule against interlocutory appeal in the federal courts, has several purposes.

16 In our office building there is a hard and fast rule against smoking.

17 Many of the men resisted, and risked further torture by violating the strict rule against communicating among themselves.

18 The teacher said that there was a hard - and - fast rule against smoking in school.

19 Anthropologist Edward Smith recalls that when he worked as a White House speechwriter, there was a rule against wearing the White House tag after work.

1 Our factory has a hard and fast rule against smoking.