A similar rule penalizing frivolous litigation applies in U. S. Bankruptcy Court under Rule 9011.

Ruthless players who are familiar with the rules sometimes exploit this rule to confuse new players who are unfamiliar with game mechanics that change the order of play: for example, players might look expectantly at a particular player other than the one whose turn it is as if waiting for him to play, then penalizing that player for playing out of turn if he plays, then immediately penalizing the player whose turn it actually is for delay of game.

The rule that at most half the contestants win a medal is sometimes broken if adhering to it causes the number of medals to deviate too much from half the number of contestants.

round inspired the name, " Clavin's rule ", and the future contestants to avoid doing the same thing Cliff did in Jeopardy !.

While the five-per-item rule appeared to be in play ( contestants would frequently take five of most items ), the announcer rarely mentioned either the rules of the Sweep, or the value of the products.

In the Hungarian and Polish versions, the rule about remaining seated is strictly enforced, and this often leads to the fully clothed contestants totally under the water by the end.

That rule was dropped after far more contestants opted to play rather than pass.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

In October 2009, when visiting Yerevan, the World Bank ’ s managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, warned that Armenia will not reach a higher level of development unless its leadership changes the " oligopolistic " structure of the national economy, bolsters the rule of law and shows " zero tolerance " towards corruption.

The current conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh ( NK ) began in 1988 when Armenian demonstrations against Azerbaijani rule broke out in both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Soviet voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia.

This rule proved inconvenient when a monastery was situated in a desert or at a distance from a city, and necessity compelled the ordination of some monks.

In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced to all the gods that on that day a child, descended from Zeus himself, would be born who would rule all those around him.

Although, the young prince's troops could get the mastery in 1189 when the boyars of Halych rose against his rule, but shortly afterwards Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich managed to escape from his captivity and he expelled the Hungarian troops from Halych.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

One exception to this rule was the Italian Cannone da 90 / 53 which was highly effective when mounted on trucks, a fit known as the " autocannoni da 90 / 53 ".

The Emperor planned to have Felix and Liberius rule jointly, but when Liberius returned Felix was forced to retire to Porto, near Rome, where, after making an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself again in Rome, he died on 22 November 365.

One problem with sports arbitrage is that bookmakers sometimes make mistakes and this can lead to an invocation of the ' palpable error ' rule, which most bookmakers invoke when they have made a mistake by offering or posting incorrect odds.

Per baseball official rule 6. 08 ( b ), a batter becomes a baserunner and is awarded first base when he or his equipment ( except for his bat ):

The rule works this way because a smart fielder can theoretically purposely bobble the ball and run with it at the same time towards the infield and only completely catch it when he is within a good throwing distance to home plate.

Under the new rule, when any runner is thrown out, and the other ( s ) are successful, the successful runners will not be credited with a stolen base.

Occasional exceptions to this rule are tolerated when the alternative is political chaos.

Swapping among three parties often helps satisfy tastes when trying to get around the rule that money is not allowed.

The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges ' scorecards at the end of the contest.

To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.

The coalition's main chance came in 62 BC, when the Greek cities rebelled against Roman rule.

Gildas, in his 6th century De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, may have been alluding to Boudica when he wrote " A treacherous lioness butchered the governors who had been left to give fuller voice and strength to the endeavours of Roman rule.

The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.

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.

The first Persian invasion was a response to Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when Athens and Eretria had sent a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow Persian rule.

This mandate was said to be taken when rulers became unworthy of their position and provided a shrewd justification for Zhou rule.

With an essential principle like " when the epoch changed, the ways changed ", it upholds the rule of law and is thus a theory of jurisprudence.

The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

In a LALR parser the state sequence cannot be resolved because the parser encounters a duplicate rule, which is an error.

Simultaneous submission of scientific findings to more than one journal or duplicate publication of findings is usually regarded as misconduct, under what is known as the Ingelfinger rule, named after the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine 1967-1977, Franz Ingelfinger.

The defendant must identify the records ; explain who is in charge of the records ; address necessity, language, and translation problems ; address the volume of such records ; address the law governing these records ; and rule out the existence of duplicate records in the jurisdiction chosen by the plaintiff.

The only exception to this rule is if a player receives a 5th non-victory point progress card on his or her turn, in which case he or she has the option of playing any one of the five progress cards in his or her hand during the turn, thus bringing the progress card count back down to four.

A common " house rule " in some places is that a player may not replace more than three cards, unless they draw four cards while keeping an ace ( or wild card ).

However, a rule used by many casinos is that a player is not allowed to draw five consecutive cards from the deck.

Alice now discards three of her own cards, and replaces them with three from the top of the deck ( Note: in a player-dealt casino game there is often a rule that the dealer must discard before picking up the deck, but this is a home game so we won't worry about such details ).

Under this rule, a hand such as K-K-Joker-5-2 is just a pair of kings ( with an ace kicker ), but any four same-suit cards with a bug make a flush, and a hand such as 7-Joker-5-4-3 makes a straight.

There is also a variation of the " Fully Wild " rule in which the wild card ( in this instance they are usually jokers as there are traditionally only two and there is only one black and one red ) can be any card of the suits matching the cards colour or current suit.

The latter rule states that between hands that would otherwise tie, the hand with fewer wild cards wins.

The " cards speak " rule does not address the awarding of a pot, player responsibilities, or the similar one player to a hand rule.

Across all the variations of the game, the requirement of using exactly two hole cards is the only consistent rule.

Some players use a house rule that if a player receives a hand with an abundance of nines ( variously, " a hand of 6 nines, or 5 nines and no meld ", or " 4 nines and no Aces, or 5 nines and only one Ace ", for example ), they can toss in their hand and declare a misdeal ; the cards are then re-dealt by the same dealer.

Twenty-eight Mission cards also come with the game to be used in the Secret Mission Risk rule variant.

The rule booklet for this edition also includes suggested variant rules, including " Kill Doctor Lucky and his Dog " ( in this version, one can kill Doctor Lucky's dog in front of him, but not vice versa ) and a system for players to try to kill each other ( resulting in the killer taking the victims cards, and the victim going back to the starting space and continuing from there ).

The exact set of rules divulged to new players varies between groups of players: some groups will say only " the only rule I can tell you is this one ", others will reveal the goal of eliminating cards, and some might outline the basic rules and, in most cases, no rules are revealed at all.

The spirit of the rule is generally something in good fun ; while rules that unfairly sway the game in favor of one player or to the detriment of one specific player are quite easy to concoct (" Every time James plays a ten, he gets a penalty of ten cards "), they are also generally frowned upon as unsportsmanlike.

* Folding players should not expose hole cards, although enforcement of this rule tends to be lenient as such exposure is usually accidental.

By applying the rule for wild cards in straights, Burt's joker plays as a 7 for high, giving him a seven-high straight to defeat Alice's six-high straight.

The general advantage was with the bank, besides the standing rule that no two cards turning up that were the same could win for the players ; the second won for the bank.

* No rule exists regarding failure to saying Uno prior to playing final two cards.

In some variations the players may agree to the " Dealer's Goodies " rule, in which the dealer is allowed to take the first discarded card if it is a " special " card, and continue taking cards until an " ordinary " card surfaces.

Rummikub has one glaring omission from its rules ; that is, the rule that the cards on the table at the beginning of a turn must remain there at the end.

Eleusis is a multi-genre card game where one player chooses a secret rule to determine which cards can be played on top of others, and the other players attempt to determine the rule using inductive logic.

To play Eleusis Express, each player is dealt 12 cards, and the dealer decides on a rule on how a card can correctly be played ( such as " alternate red then black cards " or " alternate cards with a closed loop ( e. g. 4, 6, 8, 9, Q, A ) and those without ").