rule of engagement

The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.

All elements of expression modify each other, so that no mere rule can cover all cases.

As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.

He set down as the second the golden rule, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”

Hence arise factions, dissensions, and loss to their religious interests and work; and these intruders seek to rule the others.

This impulse to extend rule appears more plainly in many of the little ceremonial observances of the child.