As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

In 2000, following a media uproar prompted by the visit of presidential candidate George W. Bush to the university, Bob Jones III abruptly dropped the interracial dating rule, announcing the change on CNN's " Larry King Live ".

Five years later when asked for his view of the rule change, the current president, Stephen Jones, replied, " I've never been more proud of my dad than the night he ... lifted that policy.

More conceptually, this rule expresses the fact that a change in the x < sub > i </ sub > direction may change all of g < sub > 1 </ sub > through g < sub > k </ sub >, and any of these changes may affect f.

Following the 1947 season, the American League countered with a rule change that fixed the distance of an outfield wall for the duration of a season.

Another rule change banned " mass momentum " plays ( many of which, like the infamous " flying wedge ", were sometimes literally deadly ).

* Among other rule changes in 2007, kickoffs were moved from the 35-yard line back five yards to the 30-yard line, matching a change that the NFL had made in 1994.

Some coaches and officials questioned this rule change as it could lead to more injuries to the players as there will likely be more kickoff returns.

The rationale for the rule change was to help reduce dead time in the game.

The classical rule, recognized by Clausius and by Kelvin, is that the pressure exerted by the calorimetric material is fully and rapidly determined solely by its temperature and volume ; this rule is for changes that do not involve phase change, such as melting of ice.

Only the former International Race of Champions actually retired the No. 3, which they did in a rule change effective in 2004.

Reforms are usually proposed by thinkers who aim to redress societal ills or institute societal changes, most often through a change in the education of the members of a class of people — the preparation of a ruling class to rule or a working class to work, the social hygiene of a lower or immigrant class, the preparation of citizens in a democracy or republic, etc.

Before that rule change, a forward pass had to be made from 5 or more yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Although there has been a change in the wording of this rule from 1 January 2007, the current FIH umpires ' briefing instructs umpires not to change the way they interpret this rule .< ref name =" Umpires ' briefing ">

A badly-implemented " two driver changes per car per season " rule meant that some cars had to sit idle while drivers with budgets could not race them ( rather than allowing two drivers to share a drive through the season on a race-by-race basis, teams could only change the driver of any entry twice in a year ).

The high speeds achieved in that race caused a rule change, which already came in effect in 1968: the prototypes were limited to the capacity of to 3. 0 litre, the same as in Formula One.

In December 2004, the SEC issued a rule change that required most hedge fund advisers to register with the SEC by February 1, 2006, as investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act.

A permanent dipole is not necessary, as the rule requires only a change in dipole moment.

Secondary rules are divided into rules of adjudication ( to resolve legal disputes ), rules of change ( allowing laws to be varied ) and the rule of recognition ( allowing laws to be identified as valid ).

This form of argument often provides evaluative judgments on social change: once an exception is made to some rule, nothing will hold back further, more egregious exceptions to that rule.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.

Unfortunately, the purely synthetic problem is the rule.

It is not binding upon another Superior Court, which could rule to the contrary.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.

A rule on the Federal deductibility of state taxes is contested.

The difference is not a formal one taxonomically and there are numerous exceptions to this rule.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* Sequential analysis – evaluation of sampled data as it is collected, until the criterion of a stopping rule is met

The only rule universally accepted is that one should be consistent, and to make this easier, publishers express their preferences in a style guide.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

For example, a reception statute enacted by legislation in the state of Washington requires that " he common law, so far as it is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Washington nor incompatible with the institutions and condition of society in this state, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.

The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836 – 1848 was enacted in British India under East India Company rule.

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

In legislation enacted on October 31, Congress made temporary provisions for local civil government to continue as it had under French and Spanish rule and authorized the President to use military forces to maintain order.

* 1871 – Criminal Tribes Act ( CTA ) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities ' Criminal Tribes ', i. e. hereditary criminals.

Despite that, states like Virginia enacted laws based in eugenics, such as its 1924 Racial Integrity Act, which established the one-drop rule as law.

Other rule changes enacted in 2000 include allowing serves in which the ball touches the net, as long as it goes over the net into the opponents ' court.

* October 12 – Criminal Tribes Act ( CTA ) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 communities " Criminal Tribes ", i. e. hereditary criminals.

However, the prime-time access rule had just been enacted, which took the 7: 30 to 8pm ET slot from the networks and turned it over to their affiliates.

Regulations enacted recently by the European Union have applied the rule that 85 % of the grapes in the wine must be of the variety on the label.

found it difficult to restore pre-revolutionary absolutism, and had to retain many of the reforms enacted during Napoleon's rule.

Article 49 of the PRC Law on Protection of Consumer's Rights and Interests enacted on October 31, 1993 provides the rule that any consumer is entitled to a recovery of double the purchase price of products or service from the seller or service provider against their defraud.

Recognizing an uncodified agency policy developed through the adjudicative process as the equivalent of a formally adopted rule is not consistent with this policy, and it would expand the scope of conduct that could subject an employer to liability beyond what Florida's Legislature could have contemplated when it enacted the whistle-blower's statute.

In 1968 it enacted a home rule charter.

This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Home Rule Bills, of which two were passed, the Third Home Rule Act won by John Redmond and most notably the Government of Ireland Act 1920 ( which created the home rule parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland -- the latter state did not in reality function and was replaced by the Irish Free State ), which was enacted.

In Asia, the civil code of Spain would be enforced in its colony, the Philippines, and this would remain in effect even after the end of Spanish rule until the Philippines enacted its own Civil Code in 1950 after almost fifty years of U. S. rule.

The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities validates non-vested interests that would otherwise be void under the common law rule if that interest actually vests within 90 years of its creation ; it has been enacted in 26 states ( Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. Virgin Islands, and is currently under consideration in New York.

In addition to this, in such a government, laws cannot be enacted which would undermine the rule of law via the setup of separate frameworks of rules for separate subsets of the population.

Since the beginning of American colonial rule, Philippines cities were formally established through laws enacted by the various national legislatures in the country.

So a rule was enacted, still on the statute book today, whereby it became illegal for members of the House of Commons to resign their seat unless they were granted a position directly within the patronage of the monarchy ( today this latter restriction leads to a legal fiction allowing de facto resignation despite the prohibition ).

An anti-crime package including stronger truth in sentencing, " good faith " exclusionary rule exemptions ( H. R. 666 Exclusionary Rule Reform Act, passed US House Roll Call 289-142 2 / 8 / 95 ), death penalty provisions ( H. R. 729 Effective Death Penalty Act, passed US House Roll Call 297-132 2 / 8 / 95 ; similar provisions enacted under S. 735, 4 / 24 / 96 ), funding prison construction ( H. R. 667 Violent Criminal Incarceration Act, passed US House Roll Call 265-156 2 / 10 / 95, rc # 117 ) and additional law enforcement ( H. R. 728 Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act, passed US House Roll Call 238-192 2 / 14 / 95 ).

On April 25, 2011, the Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections, " 76 Federal Regulation 23110 " rule was enacted.

Measure 47 enacted Oregon's " double majority " rule, which placed an additional requirement on state and local tax levies.

Russia was one of the exception to this rule: President of Russia Vladimir Putin translated the resolution in Russian and enacted as law by 10 January 2002 Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No 6 On Measures Towards the Implementation of the UN Security.