(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.
Stricture
Definition:
(n.) Strictness.
(n.) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
(n.) A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
(n.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(2) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(3) Partial success was seen in 6 patients (20.5%) with symptom, but not stricture, recurrence.
(4) We present our experience with the self-expanding urethral endoprosthesis Wallstent for the treatment of recurrent posterior urethral strictures.
(5) Few basic investigations have addressed the problem of common bile duct strictures.
(6) They confirm the efficiency of the ureteral catheterisation as therapy of the strictures, especially in the initial stages of the disease.
(7) The head and body of the pancreas between the stricture and the duodenum were normal.
(8) Strictured hepaticojejunal anastomoses can be surgically repaired with excellent results.
(9) The patient had associated congenital abnormalities of urethral stricture, hypoplastic thumb, and absent radial pulse.
(10) And even after the disintegration of stone with ESWL, hydronephrosis remained due to ureteral stricture with small stone fragments.
(11) The incidence of leakage, fistula formation, luminal stricture, peristalsis disturbance, lining loss, the quality of surface restoration, bursting strength, and wound healing were evaluated.
(12) Extracorporeal shockwave lithothripsy was very helpful in facilitating extraction of stones in unfavorable locations or located above the severe stricture.
(13) Persistent reflux causing cycles of mucosal damage followed by healing may eventually lead to end-stage disease, with development of peptic stricture.
(14) Mortality and morbidity were related to the following: (1) level of stricture; (2) number of previous attempts at repair; and (3) adequacy of reconstruction.
(15) There was no evidence of ischaemic necrosis or ureteric stricture formation.
(16) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
(17) We prospectively collected brushings and bile for cytology in 30 consecutive patients with bile duct strictures (17 malignant, 13 benign) who were assessed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.
(18) The Wallstent biliary endoprosthesis is a mesh of stainless steel that is delivered percutaneously over a 7-French catheter but expands to achieve a 1-cm lumen when released across a bile-duct stricture.
(19) Results suggested that immediate proper assessment of the oesophagus and institution of appropriate therapy may reduce the incidence of complications associated with treatment of subsequent stricture formation.
(20) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.