Collocations withrule
These are words often used in combination withrule.
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accepted rule
However, these plays seem at first to be exceptions to a generally accepted rule.
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allocation rule
In this case, however, would everyone, or even most people, support this allocation rule?
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authoritarian rule
The same is true of authoritarian rule.
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autocratic rule
Is not each country subject to autocratic rule, nepotism, and corruption?
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basic rule
The basic rule holds in all types of situations, however.
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binding rule
Insofar as international law is a binding rule collectively agreed upon, it could delimit the playing field by indicating what constitutes fair competition.
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british rule
British rule which has endured so long is now, at the instance of this country, coming to an end.
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bureaucratic rule
The orderliness of the town was perhaps a reflection of a highly restrictive bureaucratic rule.
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cardinal rule
That seems to me to be a cardinal rule of the road.
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civilian rule
Between 1992 and 2002 the country was returning to and consolidating civilian rule.
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colonial rule
In this it mirrored the conservative face of colonial rule.
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communist rule
The number of years under central planning denotes the legacy of communist rule.
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default rule
These rules take priority over the default rule (26b), so their agreement-number and number differ.
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democratic rule
Doubts over its constitutional validity, along with the transition to democratic rule, prevented its immediate approval.
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dictatorial rule
Both of these countries had nominal elections for many years during dictatorial rule.
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disciplinary rule
Alongside that extraordinary category of rights, we must work even harder to take academic responsibility and enforce upon ourselves disciplinary rules and community-defined ethics.
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established rule
This has been the long established rule.
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exclusionary rule
The present exclusionary rule is linked to voluntarism.
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existing rule
An approach to improving the maintainability of existing rule bases.
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final rule
Proceed by cases on the final rule.
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firm rule
There is a firm rule about that.
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general rule
Primogeniture was the general rule.
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grammatical rule
It is worth examining why such simple principles work well in a situation that was once thought of as involving grammatical rule abstraction.
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ground rule
A ground rule with empty body is a fact.
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hard and fast rule
Nevertheless, this was not a hard and fast rule.
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hearsay rule
I have always been an enemy, long before this report, of the hearsay rule of evidence.
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imperial rule
Imperial rule was never consolidated.
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implicit rule
As we have seen in example (4), the existence of this implicit rule is confirmed when newcomers are introduced to the rules of the game.
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inflexible rule
Its one inflexible rule is that it will not hold a meeting inside a factory unless the assent of the trade unions has been obtained.
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long-standing rule
It is a long-standing rule in all benefits systems that as income increases from whatever source, people float off.
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military rule
He doubted the wisdom of military rule of the south.
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mob rule
Mob rule has nothing on it.
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monastic rule
However, the tower had to be tilted, in the same way as his conduct had deviated from the monastic rule.
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moral rule
Only in this latter case does the best course of action conflict with some moral rule.
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new rule
For each function definition, we generate a new rule.
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official rule
The association maintains the official rule books and governs the officiating standards across the state.
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one-party rule
In the process, one-party rule was almost destroyed.
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optimal rule
After obtaining the optimal rule-sets we performed the same experiment on a word-sample which was not included into the training lexicon and corpus.
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overtime rule
I know, so far as we are concerned, that the overtime rule has been suspended for the time being.
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privacy rule
The development of privacy rule characteristics has to do with the criteria implemented to decide if and how information will be shared.
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procurement rules
We ask developing countries to impose competition rules and public procurement rules, and then we continue to subsidise meat, rice and other exports.
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proposed rule
A proposed rule of tree pruning.
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rigid rule
There is no rigid rule.
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rule of conduct
In fact, the latter rule of conduct has no chance of surviving.
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set rule
There is no set rule to determine what should be used as a basic goal component.
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strict rule
However, this is not a strict rule.
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substitution rule
One begins with a finite alphabet and a substitution rule which is used to define a space of symbolic sequences.
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totalitarian rule
The two paths tend to diverge, one toward liberty, the other toward totalitarian rule.
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tyrannical rule
Then, dominant goods serve as the means of dominating people; they create personal subordination, and ultimately, subjection to tyrannical rule.
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uniform rule
There will not be a uniform rule.
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universal rule
A modernizing ruler is one who transforms society according to the universal rule of reason.
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unwritten rule
An unwritten rule takes into account the real context of the problem at a given moment.
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