What's the difference between regle and rule?

Regle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rule; to govern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Klaus Regling, who runs the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which is to get its first test in bailing out Ireland, told German newspaper Bild: "No country will give up the euro of its own will: for weaker countries that would be economic suicide, likewise for the stronger countries.
  • (2) Klaus Regling said the Eurogroup and the ESM board would "take another look" at the issue of direct bank recapitalisation, once Europe has agreed a single eurozone banking supervisor* * - at present, Spain's hopes of an early injection of much-needed capital into its banks is being thwarted by the row over banking supervision.
  • (3) Klaus Regling, the German in charge of the fund, was also sceptical.
  • (4) Both Weber and Regling dismissed talk of a systemic risk to the euro's viability.
  • (5) Regling countered complaints in Germany that the bailouts were at the expense of the German taxpayer, arguing that Berlin stood to gain hundreds of millions from the rescues.
  • (6) Klauis Regling, head of the temporary EFSF, told reporters that the ESM is already starting to pitch investors.
  • (7) Klaus Regling , who runs the European Stability Mechanism, has argued that Spain isn't prepared to take the plunge and ask for a bailout because its bond yields are in safe territory at present.
  • (8) After issuing a paper about how to enhance the EFSF's firepower, Regling blamed the Greek political crisis for yesterday's difficulties in placing the €3bn bond and insisted that the problems had been exaggerated because German bonds are trading at their lowest yield for almost 50 years.
  • (9) The country paid €2bn to the European Stability Mechanism on Monday, hailed by the fund’s managing director, Klaus Regling, as a sign that Greece was a reliable partner.
  • (10) Regling said: It depends on the government in Madrid and on market developments...
  • (11) Alternative candidates mentioned included the Italian central bank governor, Mario Draghi, and Germany's Klaus Regling, who runs the European Financial Stability Facility.
  • (12) On Monday the 17 finance ministers failed to give any clear guidance on their plans for the EFSF, including its eventual firepower, as Klaus Regling, the fund's chief executive, said he and his team would have to go back to "market participants" to help decide.
  • (13) In an interview with Germany's Die Zeit, Regling indicated that he didn't expect a request for help from Madrid until yields are in the danger zone.
  • (14) Updated at 4.01pm BST 3.18pm BST Regling on bank recapitalisation The ESM press conference just ended rather abruptly, but there was one other interesting line to report.
  • (15) 5.8 S rRNA from the gymnosperm Ephedra kokanica Regl.
  • (16) Klaus Regling, the managing director of the ESM (who also ran its predecessor, the EFFF) declared that: As of today, the ESM is fully operational..with capacity of €200bn Photograph: Eurogroup Updated at 3.10pm BST 3.00pm BST EU flag burned in Athens today A European Union flag was burned on the streets of Athens today, by pensioners protesting against Greece's austerity programme.
  • (17) City analysts are watching the succession battle closely, because the ECB faces a crucial decision about when to begin raising interest rates as recovery takes hold – a move that could be potentially devastating for fragile economies such as Ireland and Greece if it is taken too soon.Julian Callow, European economist at Barclays Capital, said that if Regling were to take over from Trichet, the ECB's stance could become slightly less hawkish, but he added: "The lesson of the ECB's history so far is that while the personnel may change, the institution has stuck firmly to its clearly defined mandate 'to maintain price stability'."
  • (18) One of the top candidates for Trichet's job now appears to be Klaus Regling, who has run the European Financial Stability Facility, the €750bn (£637bn) rescue fund that partly bankrolled the bailout of the Irish economy.

Rule


Definition:

  • (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
  • (a.) Uniform or established course of things.
  • (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
  • (a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
  • (a.) Conduct in general; behavior.
  • (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  • (a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
  • (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
  • (a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
  • (a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
  • (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
  • (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
  • (a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.
  • (n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
  • (n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
  • (n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
  • (n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
  • (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
  • (v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
  • (v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
  • (v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (3) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (4) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
  • (5) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
  • (6) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (7) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
  • (8) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
  • (9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
  • (10) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
  • (11) Models with a C8-symmetry and D4-symmetry can be ruled out.
  • (12) CEA and bacterial antigens were not detected in the material, and the presence of alpha-fetoprotein, HLA and blood-group antigens may be ruled out on account of their respective molecular weights.
  • (13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (14) In fact, if the roundtable operated by the rules it publishes, most of its members might have been thrown out.
  • (15) Injections of l-amphetamine were not effective, ruling out non-specific effects of pH, osmolarity and the like and also ruling out noradrenergic actions as explanations of the behavioral effects.
  • (16) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (17) The prediction rule performed well when used on a test set of data (area, 0.76).
  • (18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
  • (19) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (20) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.

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