He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.

Man had enough to worry about managing to get up there and stay without being burdened with rules once aloft.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

William A. Redding asserted that if the case had been heard in open court under rules of evidence, the testimony would have been completed in sixty days instead of five years.

Arnold's iron shot from the tee burrowed into the bunker guarding the green, an embankment that had become soft and spongy from the rains, thereby bringing local rules into force.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.

Capone showed promise as a student, but had trouble with the rules at his strict parochial Catholic school.

Beginning in 1869, the NABBP permitted professional play, addressing a growing practice that had not been permitted under its rules to that point.

Early fighting had no written rules.

The rules of the Booker changed in 1971 ; previously, it had been awarded retrospectively to books published prior to the year in which the award was given.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

Under the Labour government of James Callaghan, a review by Lord Beswick had led to the reprieve of the so-called ' Beswick plants ', for social reasons, but subsequent governments were obliged under EU rules to withdraw subsidies.

The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to " open up " the game, but Harvard Stadium ( the first large permanent football stadium ) had recently been built at great expense ; it would be rendered useless by a wider field.

Men had no such rules.

Serf mobility was heavily restricted, and in matters of who they can marry and how they lived, they had to follow rules put into place by the State and the Church, by landowners, and finally families and communities established certain social mores that was theirs to follow because the serfs were born into it.

Some called for a maximum of two term-periods in each party body, including the Central Committee, others supported Nikita Khrushchev's policy of compulsory turnover rules, which had been ended by the Brezhnev leadership.

had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a ' registrar of the rules ' who knew all the rules to the game, a ' registrar of the horn ' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a ' governor ' who decided one's third call of offense.

Speaking was allowed in the common parlor, but it was subordinate to strict rules, and the prioress, subprioress or other senior nun had to be present.

It had strict rules against gambling, horses, guns, tobacco and alcohol, but these rules were generally ignored.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them.

The Marquess of Queensberry rules have been the general rules governing modern boxing since their publication in 1867.

Steffan O ' Sullivan, who wrote GURPS Bunnies & Burrows notes, " The game has also been published as a GURPS supplement, but I usually play it in Fudge these days-the simpler rules seem to work better for this genre in particular.

One of the deepest teachings of Confucius may have been the superiority of personal exemplification over explicit rules of behavior.

Bell appealed both requirements, citing that the rules do not apply to cable companies and that they constituted proactive rate regulation by the CRTC, which goes against government official policy direction that the regulator only intervene in markets after a competitive problem has been proven.

In federal civil procedure law, which has also been accepted by approximately 35 states ( through adoption of state civil procedure rules similar to the federal rules ), the class action must have certain definite characteristics ( often referred to by the acronym CANT ):

#: After all the rules have been removed, you can begin removing unit rules, or rules whose RHS contains one variable and no terminals ( which is inconsistent with CNF ).

Certain rules have traditionally been given for this particular type of definition.

There are some American meets which will allow changes of the position of the dive even after the dive has been announced immediately before execution, but these are an exception to the rules generally observed internationally.

A denormalised data model is not the same as a data model that has not been normalised, and denormalisation should only take place after a satisfactory level of normalisation has taken place and that any required constraints and / or rules have been created to deal with the inherent anomalies in the design.

This early use has cast doubt on the origin through expatriates in India, though it is known that it was popular there in the 1870s and that the first rules were drawn up in Poonah in 1873.

To decide what happens, the GM considers the rules of Karma ( characters ' statistics and Powers ), Drama ( the needs of the plot ), and Fortune, the result of a card drawn from the Fortune Deck.

Though cards sometimes have obvious interpretations for the context in which they are drawn, the rules explain that sometimes they are best read simply as " a positive ( or negative ) result.

The diagrams are drawn according to the Feynman rules which depend upon the interaction Lagrangian.

There are fairly standard rules about how a piece is drawn, stolen from another player and thus melded, the use of simples ( numbered tiles ) and honours ( winds and dragons ), the kinds of melds, and the order of dealing and play.

Some role-playing game systems which describe themselves as " storytelling games " nevertheless use randomisers rather than story in the arbitration of the rules, often in the form of a contest of Rock, Paper, Scissors or a card drawn from a deck of cards.

Secondly, the convention rules had been drawn up so that whoever won the majority of delegates from a given state would win all the votes from that state.

The first version of the rules for the modern game was drawn up over a series of six meetings held in the Freemasons ' Tavern from October till December.

If A ∧ B is true, then B ∧ A is true ; This derivation can be drawn by composing inference rules in such a fashion that premises of a lower inference match the conclusion of the next higher inference.

The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA ) in Ireland in 1884.

Experimental rules were drawn up in 1903 for a female stick-and-ball game by Máire Ní Chinnéide, Seán Ó Ceallaigh, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha and Séamus Ó Braonáin.

In 1529, they had four houses and held their first General Chapter, at which their particular rules were drawn up.

These asymptotic approximations are called straight line Bode plots or uncorrected Bode plots and are useful because they can be drawn by hand following a few simple rules.

In Solitaire-Crazy Eights, most rules do not change, but the way cards can be played is drawn from the card game Solitare.

However, in a Europe where economies are becoming increasingly interlocked, many banking supervisory rules are drawn up at the international level.

It was located just behind the former Manor House Hotel and the modern rules of lawn tennis were drawn up in 1874 in Leamington Tennis Club.

On 8 February 1790 the society became formally constituted on this broader basis by the adoption of the rules drawn up by Barnave, which were issued with the signature of the duc d ' Aiguillon, the president.

The game's design and rules are drawn largely from those of the tabletop wargame Star Fleet Battles.

* 7 February — Irish forms of football are formally arranged into an organised playing code by the Gaelic Athletic Association, the rules being drawn up by Maurice Davin and published in the United Ireland magazine.

His lost Ars ( Juvenal 7. 215 ), a system of grammar much used in his own time and largely drawn upon by later grammarians, contained rules for correct diction, illustrative quotations and discussed barbarisms and solecisms ( Juvenal 6. 452 ).

Under modern rules, Bangor would have progressed under the " away goals " rule, but at the time the tie was drawn 3 – 3 and a playoff had to be played, at Arsenal's Highbury Stadium, in London ( this was the first ECWC tie played at Highbury ), and this time AS Napoli won 2 – 1, scoring the winner seven minutes from the end of the match, to put an end to Bangor's dreams for the moment.

Mansfield made a great effort to bring English merchant law up to the same standards as that of other European nations, defining his position by saying that " the daily negotiations and property of merchants ought not to depend on subtleties and niceties, but upon rules easily learned and easily retained because they are dictates of common sense drawn from the truth of the case ".