special rule
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The law says a waiver could be granted to “meet compelling and extraordinary conditions,” but the oil producers argued the “global climate is not the kind of California-specific condition” that justifies a special rule for the state.
From Los Angeles Times
The majority has not created “a special rule for the insurrection disability in Section 3,” as Sotomayor charges.
From Slate
Why, the liberals wondered, did the majority create “a special rule” for the insurrection clause alone?
From Slate
It explicitly provides, moreover, that the House must apply a special rule for selecting a president if no candidate gets an Electoral College majority.
From Slate
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a special rule to give police greater emergency powers.
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