单词 | rule |
例句 | As long as we do not interfere with the system or a rule or a regulation. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Like I said, there were special rules for Star Trek—or at least there used to be, before Dad changed them on me—rules where we got to be a real father and son. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Or maybe desire kicked in when it pleased without noticing the rules we lived and died by. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m telling you this because it will take me some time and I’m asking you to be patient. Boys are not patient creatures, as a rule.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z "I didn't plan on breaking the rules," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And then, in full view of all watching eyes, flagrantly disregarding ancient rules about women and men touching in public, I take Amit's hand and walk away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Shephard probably doesn’t know the rules when it comes to snitching. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “The court rules that you can only have an opinion on Harry Potter casting if you’ve been a fan longer than a year.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But this evening, while Dad was holed up in his office and I should have been studying like a good daughter, I decided to break the rule. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I came to think of upstairs and downstairs as two different universes, ruled over by competing sensibilities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of ‘the Big Folk’, as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I’m breaking the rules just sitting here with you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it’s been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the Doctorita’s face jiggling with rule after rule, not paying too much attention because soon Mamita will come and I will be far away from this place. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His brother Aeron might have known, but the Damphair was back on the Iron Islands, preaching against the Crow’s Eye and his rule. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It signaled the end of “home rule” in the South with respect to racial affairs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Under Hitler's rule, this meant ridding the country of anyone who was not of pure German blood through terrorist tactics, like intimidation and savage violence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Cole nodded obediently, like a little puppy that would follow every rule and jump through any hoop. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A Dinka man who follows these rules and maintains the values he learned as a boy can grow up to be a great leader, like my great-uncle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But over here there had grown up a broader interpretation of the word ‘liberty’: no man to be ruled or taxed except by men of his own choice. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z New York City at least, Elijah Muhammad’s unquestioned rule would be ended. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Jesus’s birthday, therefore that rule does not apply since it’s a clear violation of one of the Ten Commandments.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Shin knew what he had done; he had followed camp rules and stopped an escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “You know the rule: No having fun without me!” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Eventually an American federal judge ruled the quarantine unconstitutional and ended the Guantanamo program. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The United States embraced democracy, while the Soviet Union was ruled by communism. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The incident stands out in my memory, but it was by no means unique; incidents like it were the rule rather than the exception during Badenhorst’s command. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She makes me learn rules I’ve never noticed, like a, mi, and the, which act as little megaphones to tell the world whose English is still secondhand. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Beyond it, to the east, was the realm of the dead who had not died in battle, ruled over by Hel, Loki’s daughter by the giantess Angrboda. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z —We shouldn’t be alarmed to see him or one of his staff whip some of us, for such was the rule of the school—to punish those who broke school rules. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules of physics dictated that an element with a half-life of 2.3 days had to be highly unstable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When he was ten, Avery lived with abusive foster parents whose rigid rules kept him in constant turmoil. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was a chance to change the rules across the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were certain towel rules that existed in my mother’s world that I just didn’t get. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Why she would risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a monster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But the experts do not post exact rules, and the layman is apt to fall back upon his final line of defense: “Well, I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “You strike me as a clever young lady. Surely you can find a way to skirt the rules?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z As it was for Gary Edwards, the notion of rules, of restraint, seemed ridiculous to Derric. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “To rule over us white people, is that it?” he said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Chiron had told me long ago: Immortals arc constrained by ancient rules. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was one of the Settlement’s rules that all our houses had to look just ’bout the same on the outside. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The primary goal of many of you appears to be seeing how intoxicated you can become, while others of you try to see how many rules you can flaunt and get by with. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rule is that they can’t be leaning against the bars of the cells,” the regular officer said to us, “and the cell gates are supposed to be closed.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone shaved today—it turns out that the shaving rule is only enforced on weekdays—and they look ten times better. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Those unevolved, backward rules were the flies in the Langley buttermilk. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I use my time how I want, so I rule it.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m thinking of Mami’s rule about how I’m not supposed to cause any calls home from school. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was one exciting week after another, and the world seemed only to consist of cheers and praise and glory and rules that had no meaning. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see why he was confused, considering the rules of biology. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Now you look a here, Eugenia”—because Constantine was the only one who’d occasionally follow Mama’s rule. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Aummisuty These new rules cleared the way for a huge growth in the organic food market. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Here’s a good reminder of the “i before e” rule. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The strongest fighters are those who keep two rules. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Or had breaking one enormous rule enabled her to break others? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But it must be noted that Dobie’s adherence to the rules may have been a wee bit lax. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Break a rule in front of her, put just one toe out of line, and she’d whisk off for Filch, who’d appear, wheezing, two seconds later. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Does this new rule apply to coaches’ kids? A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z When it comes to putting the units into a left-to-right order, the rules of English syntax leave writers with only a few possibilities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Even with the shortages, and the blackout, and the bombs, and the rules, and daily life so drab and dull most of the time—once you cross the English Channel you are free. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But the rule was that he had to put ten cents back out of his tip money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Shall is one of the “living dead” discussed in the chapter on outdated rules, page 217. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think you mean that when someone does something well—as in obeying the rules of proper diction—we should use a code. What do you suggest?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The Latin for “slave” — servus — as rendered in English literally is “the spared one”; slaves being those taken prisoner in battle, who should, therefore, by all the rules of engagement, have been slain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I mean, I’m not going to have any rules. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Now these are my basic rules,” she said to me, and taped them firmly to the upper corner of my desktop. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe a book of those rules you give me and JB before each of our games. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z He ruled over the other Titans until his son Zeus dethroned him and seized the power for himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But we knew the rules, and still brought my disease to their new world. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Phony rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copyediting and smarty-pants one-upmanship. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Instead I wanted to review and memorize all the rules so I could obey them and avoid confrontations, because I didn't want to be carted away forever or killed like Mr. Harvey. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In fact, the use of these traditional rules for Western music is now so widespread that it is sometimes called common practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “True. But I don’t make the rules, Ma. Can’t open the door until you give me the password.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities shall be replaced by democratic organs of self-government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a rule in the school—only sneakers on the gym floor but every-body ignored it except when there was a brother around. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the rule, all are called to serve each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If we wanted to play, we had to follow his rules. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “The rule was we weren’t supposed to talk about the accident.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The clerk was calling to let me know that Judge Norton had ruled in the McMillian case—she needed my fax number to send me a copy of the ruling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I couldn't rely on the prison to get a message to him if the Court ruled, so I asked him to call me every two hours. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Bestiaries do not contain, as a rule, totally novel creatures of the imagination made up of parts that we have never seen before. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keep your mind on your work,” she said, tapping the rules sheet on my desk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z King Ptolemy I called himself the pharaoh, in keeping with the Egyptian kings and queens who ruled before him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It seemed like a lot of the rules Nan and I’d been living by could use a closer look, and I found myself hoping long and hard that a goodbye wouldn’t happen anytime soon. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But since there was no reason to rule out the participation of specific enzymes, I saw no need to be unduly disturbed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “We did. And it’s completely within the rules,” he said defensively. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It was clear that if workers of the two races ever united they could challenge the industrialists’ rule. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The eggplants gave them an excuse for breaking the rules and starting a conversation. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If that happened, I would have lived my entire life under the unfair and unequal rules that white people created. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My father’s tribal rule had as its fulcrum the constant performing of rituals spanning the range of day-to-day living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a camp rule against junk food, so she’d wrap a bag of M&M’s in brown paper, cover it with a thousand pieces of tape, and label it thumbtacks or something. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “It’s a stupid rule,” I muttered, pressing my forehead to the cold wood. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn some spelling rules while I worked, but I couldn’t. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want a rule about the bowl?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When people don't live with rules, this is exactly what happens. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The rules of the festival are clear: The professionals backstage, permanent staff of this very large university theater, are not to lend a technical hand. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The Abbot put his paw around the young mouse’s shoulder, sensing his secret yearnings, for he had ruled Redwall wisely over a great number of years and gained much experience of mouselife. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We are with Eric, for one thing, and for another, the Dauntless have different rules—rules that brutality does not violate. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Technically, this is my room. So Mom’s rule about eating in her bedroom doesn’t apply here,” I say, sawing a piece of thick waffle with the tiny fork Muhammad brought me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z This is against the rules and it’s the middle of the night. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The legal rules adopted by the Supreme Court guarantee that those who find themselves locked up and permanently locked out due to the drug war are overwhelmingly black and brown. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She joined a dynasty that had ruled Egypt for more than 250 years. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Sure there is. Beetee and I have been following the same rule book President Snow used when he hijacked Peeta,” says Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Mr. Irizarry knows you are the last of the great old-timers. He knows that you believe in the rules and that you remember fondly your youthful days in the old neighborhood.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Here all the rules, and the fears that created the iron rules, went down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No rules. No holds barred. It used to be an Olympic sport.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This rule held even in the comparatively short hop of a mile: In the three fastest miles ever run, the winner’s final lap had been clocked at 61.2, 58.9, and 59.1 seconds, respectively. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules, although...good karma can let you out, if you have any.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because Baba had been such an unusual Afghan father, a liberal who had lived by his own rules, a maverick who had disregarded or embraced societal customs as he had seen fit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Linton argued that the Utah Supreme Court had ruled that experts were allowed to testify about how certain acts are “consistent with” certain behaviors. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My dad stopped pacing and looked at me like I had just broken the first rule of engagement. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Then we’d have to run, following the old rule, running away from our house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 17, the president's four doctors informed Corkhill that, though they anticipated full recovery, they couldn't absolutely rule out death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In racial science lessons, children were taught Aryans belonged to a superior master race that was intended to rule Europe. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Raven was such a stickler with the whole “ask in the form of a question” rule. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The motive of apartheid was clear: divide and rule; pit brother against brother, sister against sister. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z You must listen carefully, because the rules are to be kept and any breaking of them will be punished.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We met every night, because Finny’s life was ruled by inspiration and anarchy, and so he prized a set of rules. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She invoked the Sunday rule as soon as he returned from the skateboard park, and a family outing was launched. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Or did the rule only apply to food? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking away, I break my farewell rule and look back to see Ma, Chou, and Geak crying and standing in the doorway. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He yelled at her in Latin, no doubt calling her a liar and a rule breaker, but she pushed the statue over and kept running. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mama made a list of rules to help us learn better behavior. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Here are the top five “uncertainty avoidance” countries, according to Hofstede’s database—that is, the countries most reliant on rules and plans and most likely to stick to procedure regardless of circumstances. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem a terribly important rule, but the fact that his father had broken a rule at all awed him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra saw for herself the power plays, secret pacts, broken promises, bribes, and betrayals that marked her father’s rule. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z And it means that sometimes things are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “They say the rules change every two days. And they almost never come into the city anymore.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Hunter checked its contents and eased the stopper in, wondering what land this queer man came from who knew so little about the rules of hospitality. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Sort of. Can you explain cricket's rules? I've watched you play from our apartment. It looks pretty complicated, but I learn fast." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Only thing was, I didn't know if I was breaking any different rules down there that I didn’t even know about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany granted her the jewels but ruled the house was lost when she abandoned it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Qendrim Bushi’s soccer idol was his grandfather, once a famous goalkeeper at the highest level of play in Kosovo, and later, a well-known referee and the author of an Albanian-language soccer rule book. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z After a few minutes, however, it was clear to Winnie that there was at least one rule: As long as there was food to eat, there was no conversation. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He might not understand some things, but David loves rules. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia glares at him, but at the same time she begins turning over his words in her mind, collecting the obscure non-answers about the rules he has given her over the years. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Twentieth century art music, in particular, was very interested in breaking down or even rejecting these rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Many of these rules have become entrenched in a vast community of English speakers, who respect the rules without ever having to think about them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “And I don’t care what the rules are. I am not about to let word get out that we lost to a bunch of colored boys.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A binder full of rules and regulations that nobody read or even looked at. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He was breaking his rule right and left and in a minute he would stop but for that minute he would go ahead and imagine as much as he wanted. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Is it against the rules to say ‘no’ now?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Do you have a spouse? Could you apply for a child, and then—I suppose this would be against the rules, but—could you choose the one that would be assigned to you?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On November 11, 43 BCE, these three joined forces and formed the Second Triumvirate to rule Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The rules also say that we can’t prepare for the test in any way, so I don’t know what to expect. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s party arrived shortly thereafter, and the two seconds, Van Ness for Burr and Pendleton for Hamilton, conferred to review the agreed-upon rules of the interview. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The main rule was this: “Present the appearance of a normal American.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no socks and no boots— they’re the rules of the Sledge Game. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The rules of Prep were simple but strict. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z King George put Massachusetts under military rule and made General Gage governor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked with the slow, deliberate gait of someone who rushed for no one, with the confidence of a man who ruled the city. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Why inflict the same rules on us in America? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “If we didn’t have rules,” Mr. Trepid liked to say, “everything would be chaos.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z But I am the one who made the rule you couldn’t live with. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Now that he was president, these forces all but ruled his every day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When we occasionally disobeyed a rule, Daddy enforced punishment that we would long remember. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “No, Dante, you like to make your own rules. So long as the rules are yours, you like them.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Mae and Birdie were like that, not much for the usual polite rules of home and hearth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They believed that Mark Antony would not support Caesarion’s right to rule over that of his own flesh and blood. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I stopped talking to Grandma about my dissatisfaction with white people and their rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Business before pleasure is always a good rule, whoever you are. Some day the rule shall be business with pleasure, for the joy of labor shall have been restored. Sit down." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are exceptions to every rule,” she replied. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “See the cows? That would be breaking your grandfather’s rules!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He enforced such rules as he knew; missing dinner was one of them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know what? Since it’s your birthday, I’m gonna go against my own rules and let you have a pack for free.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Or more likely, he said, it was a case of setting down some new rules. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That was one of the strict rules for those who were allowed to take their patrol vehicles home with them—you must keep your ears on, just in case a fellow officer needs help. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps they were the children of the leader, in a culture that believed in either family charisma or strict rules of succession. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Chekhov’s first rule of playwriting goes something like this: “If there’s a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By the light of day, I saw the changes wrought upon Boston by military rule. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I’m still not sure what it means to be free from British rule. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Since the music is not organized by the familiar rules of Western music, many people have trouble appreciating atonal music without some help or study. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I always followed the rules and did what I was supposed to. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I glance at the science fair rules, which I tucked into my binder way back in January. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “What do you suppose makes people so eager to break rules?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I understand and respect the rules, but for our team, it was still kind of a bummer. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The rule provided a way to figure out the true value of a mathematical function that goes to 0/0 at a point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I was finally out of high school, so the “no boys until you graduate” rule from my parents had been lifted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And high rates of immigration and immigrant success stories seem to hammer home the point: The rules of advancement have changed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The judge is going to rule on a motion that King's lawyer made to suppress Cruz's testimony, and a few other things. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z But suppose I were to alter the rules of speed-dating just slightly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As a rule, Lawrence was not a boisterous sort, but they had all at one time or another witnessed his ebullient outbursts when he was seized with a new idea. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Diana didn't want to go in either—she said it was against the rules. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A blade was supposed to reap my souL As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Dad will pick you up at five o’clock. That’s the rule.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing trees and crows have in common—in fact, one thing all the natural world has in common—is the rule that we’re not supposed to talk to people. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In June, Judge Willmore ruled on several of the motions that were discussed in the April 15 hearing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As far back as the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled in Strauder v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You know that there’s no third chance. The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Today he had come for more than the recital of his rules. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z HARRY: Now this is difficult but we have to ask it to rule it out. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z These stories were set in mythical African kingdoms ruled by black people, where no white man had ever set foot. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “A good number, especially for playing cards. But we may have to explain to Bo again that he can’t keep making up his own rules.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead I think I am privileged: I am an exception, to some rule I haven’t even identified. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A one-armed bunk master sets forth rules in a belligerent torrent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As this physician emphasizes, pure exposure to a single chemical is the exception, rather than the rule. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To be caught in some small transgression—missing a day of work, speaking harshly of his rule, failing to attend mass— brought an unforgiving penalty. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The way everyday concerns didn’t bother him, the rules he followed that weren’t the normal rules for heroes, all of that—made him interesting. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I will pass judgment,” Hylla said in an icy tone, “once I have all the facts. That is how I rule—by reason, not fear. First, I will talk with this one.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Was He willing to come along with me even when I had made a conscious decision not to obey what I knew were the rules? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I say “too much,” grandchildren, because one of the unwritten rules of war is to expect the unexpected. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z After we were enrolled came the surprise visits that we used to dread, because Dad seemed to break all the school rules. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Sal’s is one of the only places where the rules don’t apply. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then it was as if Deen swam into Jinny’s head for a moment, reminding her in his new deep voice about the rules. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The day Bill Toledo and I relayed that message, the last of those four rules probably saved our lives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “What rules? We don’t have any idea why we do what we do. None at all! Nobody ever told us anything.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The thing about Bob is that when you first meet him, he’s really interesting because he knows about cigarette rules and pennies and Mary Tyler Moore. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “The paper is ruled, but it’s all we could find.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z By following a simple rule, A and B became funny. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If we make no answer, the Enemy may move Men of his rule to assail King Brand, and Dáin also.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “A devoted Swirly carries Flush paraphernalia at all times. That’s rule number one. Rule number two is Flush adornment makes the world a better place. Besides, sticker slapping never hurt anyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Though the rules are perfectly logical, the conditions are hard to keep track of. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Our position demands a level of morality beyond the rule of law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The rules are, you have to keep something crossed all the time, like your fingers or legs. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Now, he huddled in the seat, looking down at the platform, listening to Carter explaining the rules of the crazy fight. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an unspoken rule that when you’ve been gone, you have to speak to everybody. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It took two weeks of relentless begging before my parents agreed to lift their “no animals in the house” rule. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Before I discovered the miracles of science, magic ruled the world. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Your father is like the sun, splendid to behold, but he must descend and let darkness rule for a time.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “What are the three most important rules of the chemist?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z According to the rules of the contest, Finkle Foods had to pay to send the winner and his family to New York. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To prepare for this eventuality, he ruled the house strictly according to tribal law, tolerating no deviance, particularly from his children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Insomnia Con’s grand prize, I want to go over some basic info and ground rules first. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "Stupid rules," Grandma says, but she puts the queens back on the coffee table. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z You know, it's interesting that you have so many rules for things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Earlier in the summer, Luma had sent word around that she expected her players to get their hair cut short, a rule that hadn’t gone over well with some of the Under Fifteens’ best players. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z There was another reason Luma resolved to hold firm on the hair rule. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “My father is still purposefully vague about the rules,” Celia says as they walk through the trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There are two basic ideas that lead to the rules for stem direction. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That I didn’t remember about the food rule, because it was my birthday. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Even though it was against all the posted rules and regulations, he started eating it. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z There's been a rule change in the Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For these reasons, border rules began to change in late 2004. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We know that goblin women fight and rule alongside their men—hulking, ugly beasts, dreadfully unlike the beauties of our own elfin aristocracy, who are bred for their delicacy to be ornaments to society. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Me: "The rule of nines. If you add up all those numbers, the body parts, you get ninety-nine percent. What's the other one percent?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The hoverboard had become something more solid, something that obeyed its own rules, and that could be dangerous, too. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Wal-Mart employees who have bucked the company—by getting involved in a unionization drive or by suing the company for failing to pay overtime—have been fired for breaking the company rule against using profanity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z During those years when I was memorizing the questions and answers of The Baltimore Catechism, I was also impressing on my memory the spelling of hundreds of words, grammar rules, division and multiplication tables. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a few years, he realized he didn’t like the rules and constriction of any rigid organization—not the Communist Party, and not the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Although I did not mention Life Services in my article “Top Ten Tips for First-rate Funeral Behavior,” the same rules apply. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you go by the rules, I’m as Jewish as anybody,” I argue. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z There was a rule against running, and anyway, he ought to have been at vespers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You will always rule my heart. No amount of fools shouting at a kingsmoot can change that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Has he simply set general rules in place, or does he step in on each and every occasion to ensure the rule is applied? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Each word is slotted into a place in the tree according to its category, because the rules of syntax don’t specify the order of words but rather the order of categories. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the legal rules governing prosecutions, like those that govern sentencing decisions, maximize rather than minimize racial bias in the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After that he said he never wanted to experience anything like it ever again, and from that day he always followed the rules. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Because if that’s all they are—if there are no rules governing our lives—then our entire existence is a meaningless farce. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If the colonists actually followed the rules of the Molasses Act, it would have terrible consequences. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Which of the cards would you have to turn over to prove this rule to be true? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There he and Niobe ruled in entire content until she showed that the mad arrogance of Tantalus lived on in her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you thought about us going outside? The school rule says we can’t go out in the snow. We can go out on the blacktop, but it’s too crowded and there’s nothing to do.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Yet I would let him think that he still ruled me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z My intellectual pride had kept me from selecting typing, shorthand or filing as subjects in school, so office work was ruled out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “An exception to a rule. Lily thought we should try to convince them that three children would be appropriate for our family.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Signing it was a clear violation of the rule about shutting up, and look where it got me: alone on a Tuesday afternoon, staring at my black Chuck Taylors. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Apparently Mr. Curtain had laid down strict rules about this. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It's a good reminder that the rules have changed. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z "More fool they. My first rule of war, Cat—never give the enemy his wish. Lord Tywin would like to fight on a field of his own choosing. He wants us to march on Harrenhal." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Like the time there was a freak hailstorm in the Congo and the women took it as a sign that they should rule. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernstein’s The Careful Writer, an informal style manual, takes five pages to explain fourteen rules, exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Men who went from town to town, bringing the rule of law to small Aturan towns.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But for now the best he could do was to follow his old rule: Keep moving. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After these preliminaries, we focused on the critical issues: the armed struggle, the ANC’s alliance with the Communist Party, the goal of majority rule, and the idea of racial reconciliation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can rule myself with study,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A rule should be blown off, in contrast, if the answer to any of the following questions is yes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They had never developed alphabets or rules for spelling, never set their histories down in stone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z From then on, Zeus and his brothers and sisters ruled, undisputed lords of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of these men still stood by the rule of law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Patriots had somehow managed to intercept the real letter, in which Wright had warned that the rebels were threatening British rule. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "Perhaps," I said, "'a's simply ruled by a melancholy humour." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules. Whoever nominated you should’ve filled out the proper waiver if your school year runs long. There’s always next summer—” He finally looks up at me and his eyes go wide. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I grabbed my bag when the bell rang, ready to run for my life, when he said my name and only the very basic rules of etiquette held me in place. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We were looked after by an amakhankatha, or guardian, who explained the rules we must follow if we were to enter manhood properly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no rule against writing in Spanish. It’s up to you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z By asking him to permit such a meeting, I was asking him for a significant extension of the rules. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If either one of us asked a question, the rule was the other person had to answer it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The eighth rule of Camp 14, as Shin was required to memorize it, said: “Should sexual physical contact occur without prior approval, the perpetrators will be shot immediately.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Hadn’t you noticed? I’m breaking all the rules now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z One had followed the rules, and one had not. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Anything that didn’t require books, or a slide rule. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As a rule, he didn’t trust myths and folktales; they lacked accreditation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “But the rules ...” She knew as well as I did that campers weren’t allowed to switch tables. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z You see, grandchildren, rules about modern warfare were made up between the nations of the world before World War Two. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We were there to enforce the rules, that was all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “To encourage people to follow the food rules and buy Liberty Bonds and such?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Remember this one? It shows a picture of a chessboard with only a black pawn out of its original position, and it reads, ‘According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Ain’t got time to be nice, Greenbean. Old life’s over, new life’s begun. Learn the rules quick, listen, don’t talk. You get me?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was just another rule he added to the already long list of restrictions. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t fight to free himself, though, only observes me with the wary look of someone who still hasn’t ruled out that he’s in the presence of a mutt. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In 1987, when media hysteria regarding black drug crime was at fever pitch and the evening news was saturated with images of black men shackled in courtrooms, the Supreme Court ruled in McCleskey v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Iam traveling through years as well as leagues, Tyrion reflected, back through history to the days when dragons ruled the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Rutherford was not reluctant to state the implications of this rule publicly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I was desperate for any information that would rule her out as somebody somehow involved in the attack. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Wait! Grandma says that bending rules isn’t that different from breaking them if the rules matter. Are you going to get in trouble with the Time Bureau when you get home?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They weren’t anything special—the kind with ruled lines and the twisted wire holding the edge—and each of them was numbered. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Both had recommended reforms to the rules of engagement, particularly concerning the use of deadly force. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My lord, you rule wide country, rolling and rich with clover, galingale and all the grains: red wheat and hoary barley. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She grabs her purse and Jaimito’s stroller, and ticks off more rules. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, the rules of the drug war game are designed to allow for the roundup of an unprecedented number of Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was written very clearly in the rules. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z "I didn't think of that. I don't know these rules. It's why I need your help, Hanneke." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z After the bathroom rules, Principal Peattie roamed his eye around again and then called on me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “You said the rule was to take a picture only when I saw a flower I really liked.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She was not one of the reformers who had campaigned for Prohibition, but she believed in the rule of law, and the rise of the gangsters appalled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All this gushing adds to the myth of Kareem in my mother’s matrimonial fancy—the suitable boy, the boy with tameez, the one boy to rule them all. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z People in Omaha are not, as a rule, friends with people who live halfway across the country in Sharon, Massachusetts. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned quickly that this mestizo, teacher ruled her little kingdom with a cruel hand. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The tenth rule of Camp 14 said that a prisoner “must truly” consider each guard as his teacher. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That’s what we tell kids when they’re young and learn that there are no rules, or rather that there are but only suckers play by them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The State of Alabama had argued that procedural rules barred Mr. Nelson from challenging the constitutionality of the protocol. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Without being told, I soon assimilated the elaborate rules that governed the relations between men and women. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the National party refused to end apartheid; instead, each year the system was fortified by the promulgation of laws to entrench white rule and privilege. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No-nonsense nuns ruled classrooms with an iron hand, passing on to the youngest girls and boys the discipline and knowledge they would need to get ahead in a prejudiced world. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “That inmates run the place, and nobody follows the rules.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny had broken a rule, the rule, and nothing had been the same since. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “This isn’t about my mood. It’s about rules. I don’t know what the big deal is—you love rules.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z On reflection, though, we see that the supposedly new rules are just variations on the old ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I figure maybe if I don’t break any more rules, Ma will tell me what’s inside the box from Madagascar. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Don’t you remember all those times we talked? All those times we cursed the gods? Our fathers have done nothing for us. They have no right to rule the world!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The only sounds are the breathing of the dogs and clicking of the slide rule’s cursor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I suppose,” Chrissie went on, her voice wobbling slightly, “you lot would know about it. The rules, all that sort of thing.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just wondering what the rules are here.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I mean, is there really any harm in the children making up a funny word and saying it? Does there have to be a rule that a word like this may not be used?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And he said he entered the case not because he was interested in determining the grade of an individual student, but because Russeau and Carter had made a travesty of the no-pass, no-play rule. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Cowslips are a delicacy among rabbits, and as a rule there are very few left by late May in the neighborhood of even a small warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z "There's too much talking out of turn," Ralph said, "because we can't have proper assemblies if you don't stick to the rules." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It had turned out, by far, to be the most frustrating of the rules he was required to obey. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z No one ever wrote down all the rules for me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There was no rule against it, but what favors was the officer passing back in the inmate’s direction? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they could bite into them, Roza said, “You eat cookie, you must visit me in Poland. Is rule.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z One of Momma Biles’s ironclad rules was that no matter where we were or what we were doing, once the streetlights came on, it was time to head home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z What if I ignored Madam’s rule and continued to visit the Bridewell? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. But remember I have rules this year.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The next day I broke one of Mom’s big rules. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had taken the apple home, against the recreation area rules. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t really need to go through all the rules on behavior. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It gave the older ones the sense that they were in charge, when in actuality it was Mommy who ruled the world. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When Helms railed that “we must decide whether we will be ruled by sanity or ruined by savagery,” his audience knew exactly which “savages” Helms meant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one’s successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn’t mean to. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I learned that the phases of the moon ruled not only the planting but almost every part of their lives. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To break that rule was unforgivable and could cost a colored man his life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the rules of “here” and “there” don’t have a clear place in your head anymore. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We made up the rules as we went along—and they kept changing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was open season on the eighth grade president, especially on the school bus, where there were no teachers, and the only rule is anything goes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “You heard Reyna talking about the ancient lands. They’re much too dangerous. Roman demigods have been forbidden to go there for generations. Even Octavian couldn’t get around that rule.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Few kings of Faerie have ruled so well for so long as Eldred. Now he goes to seek the Land of Promise.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On his way back to his seat he said, “I love England in a heat wave. It’s a different country. All the rules change.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What the Object and I did together was played out under these loose rules. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Even though they had way more rules at home. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Each zone had a unique combination of rules and parameters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The first rule in the dining room was No Talking. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z A Provisional Government took the place of imperial rule in Petrograd and granted equality in law to Russian women, giving women the right to vote and to hold office. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In addition to being a fascinating tale designed to catch your attention, it introduces themes that reverberate throughout all the stories that follow by serving as the exception that proves the rule. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The playground is packed with kids riding bikes, playing hopscotch, and shouting at each other over the rules of different games. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s a rule that probably no one has ever broken. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She made it sound like black people are great and powerful: we can rule again; we can overcome. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And prison, more than any place I’d ever been, was about rules. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When you live next door to a kid, that kid is your buddy by the rules of the universe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The rules were, in fact, so simple that Francis considered writing them up under the title, “Fourier Transforms for the Birdwatcher.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Under Robbie’s rules, kids who took piano lessons were allowed to work on only one song at a time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She decided she didn’t want to start right off the first day, breaking the rules. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If it hadn’t been against the rules, Cara Landry would have skipped down the hall, all the way back to her science class. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The principal talked about the importance of hard work and obeying the rules. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z But judging by the political rhetoric and the legal rules employed in the War on Drugs, this result is no freak accident. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I liked that rule, because I hardly ever know the answer to Mrs. Rouse’s questions anyway. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He recited basic rules and warnings that a very small child might be asked to memorize in kindergarten. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Descriptivists believe that the rules of correct usage are nothing more than the secret handshake of the ruling class, designed to keep the masses in their place. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “She makes up the rules as she goes,” Luke tells Annabelle. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “As if it hasn’t been hard enough already, with all the other food rules.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He did not, as a rule, believe in running. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Why else would the Gamemakers have made this unprecedented change in the rules? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Among them were women who hadn’t been as lucky as Hayva, but had been young when the gods ruled Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Respect my rules so that I may also respect you. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We are at a loss to understand them and we wish they’d give us a few simple, clear-cut rules to go by. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Organizationally unable and psychologically unprepared to challenge the rule of the Big Men, as the business leaders were known, the mill hands simply endured their lot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But in Fabyan’s view, it was his own personal kingdom—a place where he alone made the rules. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I hereby grant you power over this side of the mountain and all that’s visible from its peak. Go get your people and make this your home. This is now your rule.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z But they all use the same musical "language" and follow basically the same rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nowhere is this transition better documented than with the phony but ubiquitous rule on when to use which and when to use that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Lay down a rule, and Palmer followed it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z After his humiliating captivity ended, Atawallpa seems to have believed, the ground would be clear for his rule. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Students were not permitted to form romantic attachments to each other—at least not officially, though Kaede had not been the only one to break the rules. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z With the close scrutiny that football players’ grades received because of the no-pass, no-play rule, he had always passed his courses. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull ruled the men under his command by his physical size and the power of his voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, I feel that crying is almost—like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever—totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “We will witness history, and we will write it. We will do our small part to tell people, ‘This is what you should know about the way our kingdoms were ruled.’” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “The rules don’t allow civilians in the cells.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because it is a rule, isn’t it, Liv? If you want to leave, you have to ask me, right?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Look,” Crenshaw said as he extracted his claws from my quilt, “I can’t go until I help you. I don’t make the rules.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As you might expect, lust is ruled by testosterone and estrogen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I could tell he was mad about me even trying to get him to break his mom’s rules, but I really wanted to see what the fuss was about. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “But there are rules and regulations here as in any civilized establishment. They are meant for our own good, my dear. You’ll see.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, they did not otherwise participate in the public forum. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The choice between that and which, according to the rule, is simple: nonrestrictive relative clauses take which; restrictive relative clauses take that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople’s grievances and arbitrated and ruled. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was fear among the other organizations that the ANC would attempt to dominate it, and the committee’s rules were crafted so that its powers were purely consultative and its decisions not binding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He came from a family well schooled in the rules of the system. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He knew the rules of the Yabahari, his people’s traditional way of hunting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He’s the one who made me break the rules I didn’t read but probably should’ve. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z And unbeknownst to the general public, the Supreme Court has actually authorized race discrimination in policing, rather than adopting legal rules banning it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules!” the conductor said, his patience fraying. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Can you ground him ?” “I sure can. But first he has to ask me to. That’s part of the rule.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Under Soviet rule, there was no formal annual commemoration for women veterans of the Great Patriotic War. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Kainene was looking at her woodenly, as if she had broken their unspoken rule and tried to start idle chatter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Roy knew the rules against fighting on the bus, but he couldn’t think of anything else to do. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, government rules say the walls of a processing plant must be white. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "From the sea. Beyond the sea. The Seven Lands, he said. Sunset Lands. Where men are iron and dragons rule. He taught me this speech." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They felt that if there was majority rule, the rights of minorities would be trampled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The court didn't conclude that he was innocent and must be released, but it ruled in our favor on every other claim and ordered a new trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was decidedly opposed to majority rule, or “simple majoritarianism” as he sometimes called it, because that would end white domination in a single stroke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z NOTE: Although percussion specializes in "noise"-type sounds, even instruments like snare drums follow the basic physics rule of "bigger instrument makes longer wavelengths and lower sounds." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z While we were washing and swimming in the stream any old place, there were rules, it turns out: wash clothes downstream, where the forest creek runs into the crocodile river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “All those rules you bend, and you can’t bend this one? Not even for something this important?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z By then she was an obese woman with a very pretty face, and she ruled her whole roost with an iron fist, including Uncle Isaac, her husband. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it were, you’d be in chains. It’s the queen who rules.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "New rules," I say to nobody and everybody. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A new instructor, a knight named Dulcamara, is talking about rules of inheritance, probably in anticipation of the coming coronation. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t know if that’s true. We all live within time. It rules us.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Maddie has a rule about passing on favors, which she calls the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Every prisoner knew the first rule of Camp 14, subsection 2: “Any witness to an attempted escape who fails to report it will be shot immediately.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They ate in the church and slept in one or other of the many abandoned houses in the village; that was the rule and it could not be broken. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “It’s a ridiculous rule,” she said bitterly, startling a laugh out of Taisin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z District Court ruled that de jure segregation existed in the Detroit school system. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We can put things off far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Eh, well . . . Zeus insists on certain rules. Hands off, when there’s a human quest. Even when something really major is wrong. But nobody messes with my baby sister. Nobody!’ The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But that it also concerns itself with unfair treatment of England’s medieval Jewish population would have ruled it out for the arch anti-Semite Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z White, too, sometimes chafed at Hoover’s rules and whims. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was pretty sure he remembered reading some rule against civilians bearing weapons in war zones. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z All ruled by their larger, human-like cousins, the immortal Fae—the original inhabitants and settlers of the continent, and the oldest beings in Erilea. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was an English gentleman to the outside world, and he did not want to ruin his reputation by breaking the rules of society. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight they would all begin eagerly to memorize the rules for their adult Assignments. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It was white men who dominated politics, controlled the nation’s wealth, and wrote the rules by which everyone else was forced to live. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’ve always had one important rule in the classroom, which is to try to lie low. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z It would seem that these two theories could live in harmony together, each dictating the rules of physics for different aspects of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but she writes romances. It’s one of her publisher’s rules.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I felt profoundly that they were traveling in the right direction, yet if their having power to rule had depended merely upon my lifting my right hand, I would have been afraid to do so. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there’s no hard-and-fast rule that tells you how to form the plural of every word that ends in o. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry too. Yes, indeed. You don’t get to decide the rules. Your daddy and I do.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Among the more populous tropical islands, that option was ruled out for Tonga by its low elevation and hence its lack of rivers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Is it best to let owners set rules, which is likely to give all of us cheaper coal, or to have the government set standards, which is more likely to protect workers and the environment? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The judges ruled that it was Lash, not Zamperini, who had won. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Because there is a practicality to viciousness: the thief, the liar, the murderer even, has faster rules than virtue ever has; why not madness too? Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Under Colonel Korn’s rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When in doubt he relied on the unwritten rule his superiors had taught him: “If he’s dead and Vietnamese, he’s VC.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As a rule, though, that wasn’t how all their drinking turned out. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z All these rules entered our household the minute I was allowed to leave home for the long walk to and from school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And so they came to know the strange rules of their incarceration. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Yes, we have been given power and yes, that power gives us the right to rule, but it also gives us responsibilities over the ruled. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was Germany’s destiny to rule their part of the world. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I bounce harder and higher until I get giggly and breathless, my heart beating like crazy for already disobeying one of the zillion rules. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But as thirteen-and fifteen-year-old girls, with no mother and father to watch over us, our bodies were like poor countries—there was always a dictator trying to rule over us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “So no specific diet restrictions, good. I need you to read these rules.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Quit your crying. You should’ve followed the rules and stayed inside. Now come on, grab his legs.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In these and other modal traditions, the rules for constructing a piece of music are quite different than the rules for music that is based on a scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z You snored super loudly and cracked your gum and took showers that lasted way longer than the ten-minute rule. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My gaze rests on her wardrobe, on the drawer she forbade me to open my first morning here, a rule she continues to remind me of regularly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Right at the end of sophomore year, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools like ours would have to be integrated, though they didn’t say when. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He bounced a couple of slackers who confused freedom with no rules, so the rest of us don’t make waves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In the 1970s, Goldman got involved with a group of mathematicians who were very interested in developing statistical rules for telling apart things like subatomic particles. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Answering before a question was completed or having several kids answer at once were violations of the rules that would cost points. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess Daddy knew that if he didn’t establish some order and organization in a house with six growing children, chaos would rule. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Annie says they do this all the time, it isn’t against the rules and sometimes they even see Capone. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “We made a big deal to show that we felt the rule was wrong,” she told me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z According to the rules of the dynasty, Cleopatra now married her youngest brother, Ptolemy XIV, and resumed her seat on the throne as Egypt’s pharaoh. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Perhaps the rules have changed or the teachers just do not know nowadays.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z What if you decided to make your own rules? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “But maybe he doesn’t care . . . it’d probably just make him admire Crouch even more. Yeah, Percy loves rules. He’d just say Crouch was refusing to break them for his own son.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Shin had learned that teachers usually did not take this rule seriously. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The members of The Vigils did nothing but enforce the rules. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite my nerves, all I can think of is the old college rule, A Chi Omega never walks with a cigarette. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There were a million things she could say in acerbic response, of course, but Dimple still hadn’t ruled out asking to enroll in Insomnia Con if the opportunity presented itself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In a time when kings and emperors ruled much of the world, the Dutch Republic was governed, more than any other nation, by the people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no doubt that Jane broke the rules, as she is known to do from time to time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Her uncle had refused to help her rule when she would have made him the King’s Hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With one hand, he covered his mouth, and with the other, he gestured at the rules posted on the wall. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I was aided by that: as a rule people don’t notice much. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If the world is to be understood, if we are to avoid such logical paradoxes when traveling at high speeds, there are some rules, commandments of Nature, that must be obeyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of the southern highlands were “debatable lands” in the border sense of a contested territory without established government or the rule of law. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Arguments from the opposition were far from over, but no one could say anymore that cost alone ruled out treating the disease in poor countries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon colored children,” ruled the Court. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Just the day before a rule had been passed that members should be called only by their Egyptian names while they were inside the land of Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to make me bend the rules alone?” he asked when he reemerged. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Despite my terrible grades and our parents' strict rules, junior year in Flushing has turned out pretty nicely. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Blackcliff’s rules are so numerous that it’s impossible not to break them at least a few times. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z On the Monday after spring vacation, Emily sighed, rested her chin on the lunchroom table, and said, “Can sets have rules?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Alex knows it’ll probably leave a mark, which is against rule number one of clandestine hookups for political offspring—and probably royals too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At the time I had no idea how much I would have to live by these rules just to survive the ordeals of my life. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But keep your property, and rule your house, and let no man, against your will, make havoc of your possessions, while there’s life on Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But under military law, the men could be charged with violating the rules of war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It’s easy—and wrong—to diagnose the problem as a violation of a grammatical rule called subject control. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “All the rhetorician’s rules,” wrote Samuel Butler, “teach but the naming of his tools.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Is that your boss over there? The Grim Reaper? I’m going to go right over there and tell him, What kind of stinkin’ rule is that?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The Daughters of the American Revolution, the patriotic organization that owned Constitution Hall, had ruled several years earlier that black artists would not be permitted to appear there. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z As the bus pulled out of the parking lot and headed toward town, Howard rattled off a list of school bus rules. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Firm. The rules matter. Especially to Barb. She doesn’t take chances.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Pilar is like her grandmother, disdainful of rules, of religion, of everything meaningful. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Steer clear of class; focus exclusively on race was the unwritten rule during this era dominated by Cold War politics. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Court has ruled that a city police department cannot be sued for damages unless a specific city policy or custom can be identified authorizing the illegal practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By all the rules, he wasn’t supposed to be with Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Haiti occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean, while the more prosperous Dominican Republic, once ruled by Spain, governs the eastern two-thirds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For him, the world—and by that I must mean this very land, his chosen nation—operated on a determined set of procedures, certain rules of engagement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t baby-cute anymore, and it was a hard-and-fast rule that prospective parents wanted babies. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “David has his own rules, too,” I say, “but those rules don’t make sense to anyone but him.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Nationalism has been tested in the people’s struggles and the fires of batde and found to be the only antidote against foreign rule and modem imperialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It rises inside me, unabated by the dim pettiness of university politics or mind-numbing everyday rules. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But one strict rule they had; oh yes, the strictest. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know what you have seen today. I know your doubts. But I give you this news: when the time comes, you will not be ruled by fear.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew there were good rules and bad rules, and having a time-out inside a refrigerator was a bad rule. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now she's not the girl that fusses with me about the rules, the arcana, and court. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Carlos was always trying to get away with something, or at least he used to be like that before enlisting, but Alex found that rules imposed a structure, and he preferred that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Clever manipulations could also bring l’Hôpital’s rule to resolve other odd expressions: ∞/∞, 0°, 0∞, and ∞0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Then I got a copy of the American Standard Bible. It was very new then. And it was different in this passage. It says, ‘Do thou rule over him.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With the traffic lights not working, the drivers made up their own rules about when to go. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “I teach you the rules, answer your questions, make sure you don’t disgrace the legion.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They are the ones who came up with a one-drop rule that separated the “white” from the “black,” even if it meant that their own blue-eyed sons would live under the lash. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Nurse Janet could’ve at least given me a chance to break the rule before assuming that I would be a rule breaker. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, there are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to. You get it?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Clerical work is ruled out by wardrobe limitations. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But Army rules did not allow her to bring him home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Governmental authority no longer hath any purchase on land; chaos and the mob of slave-drivers rule all; and we are left, a tiny kingdom on the waves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The rules about communion at Friday mass, for example, made absolutely no sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Maybe because it's another way to flout the rules. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z My guess is that they're just considering it, and it's a bureaucracy that lives by its own rules. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You broke the rules. It’s the same standard I would hold anyone else to. I’m sorry, but this is as far as you get to go.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The coroner ruled his death justifiable homicide, justifiable because the officer said Brooks had been resisting arrest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z We had to make rules, but who doesn’t. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I made that rule. I was testing you.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Somehow, this small miracle causes Ashima to feel connected to Cambridge in a way she has not previously thought possible, affiliated with its exceptions as well as its rules. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a plan or a goal, I just wanted to be in a space where I knew what the rules were and where I didn’t have to prove myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z "We need to review a few rules for court life." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The only exception to the cul-de-sac rule was if we asked to leave the circle to go to our friend Becca’s house, which was a few doors down. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I think my aptitude test ruled that one out pretty well.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Preferring the less glorious and supposedly less influential position of cihuacoatl, head of internal affairs, he ruled from behind the scenes, dominating the Alliance for more than fifty years and utterly reengineering Mexica society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They told stories and talked about their work, and they looked into the spermy-starred sky and talked about the heavens, and the rule of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules are simple, you get to catch your breath every few minutes, and you can work on your tan. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m giving you permission to leave your room so you haven’t broken any rules. Now follow me.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If the prefect does not obey the rules, how can the students be expected to obey? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But another rule says Never Talk to Strangers, which I was breaking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “And, well, because I didn’t remember to follow the rules.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Also, he has a pathological inability to follow either of my two rules. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Myriad laws, rules, and regulations discriminate against people with criminal records and effectively prevent their meaningful reintegration into the mainstream economy and society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I might sneak onto rooftops to feed pigeons, but I'm not the kind of kid who breaks big rules. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The first rule was to find someone smaller and weaker and take what he had. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Why didn't he push back when Ma issued her new rule for us to stay inside? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “You only need three out of four to pass this year. Fiona put in that rule change early—she thought the Director might not give you a fair shake.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Gram has this rule that you can open one on Christmas Eve and you save the rest for morning. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Dad stood over the trays with his weight on both feet, against doctor’s rules. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There were general rules and kitchen rules, bathroom rules and stairway rules, basement rules and outside rules, upstairs rules and downstairs rules, clothing rules, washing rules, cleaning rules, rules upon rules upon rules. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It means that in principle, then, we are not ruled by mysterious, unpredictable forces, but that, on the contrary, we can in principle control everything by means of calculation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It would be bending the rules, but not exactly breaking them.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Ferguson hearing, the court ruled in favor of the Jim Crow laws. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was uncertain he would even be able to light his own candle, his own wish, wondering if it was somehow against the rules. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Accomplishes nothing. 'Wondering' is very likely against the rules, though I suppose it isn't a serious infringement.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Well, now,” Mr. Galanter said, “there isn't much time. The rules are each team practices in its own yard.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A prince can gain their favour in various ways, but because these vary according to the situation, no fixed rules can be given for them, and therefore I shall not discuss them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Marian remembered her grandmother Isabella as an imposing woman, tall and imperious, who ruled her family with an iron hand. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z In 1896, the Supreme Court heard his case, but they ruled eight to one that the separate-but-equal doctrine was not in violation of his constitutional rights. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A lot of retirement high-rises have rules against dogs, visiting or otherwise, and I did not know Margaret's position on dogs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, yes. Frozen time changes the rules in both dimensions. It means the residents of Fry can never let another opportunity slip by, and I can now roam freely without Witching Hour’s aid.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I didn't find out about the bus rules until Grandma needed to get a medical prescription filled downtown one day and our car stalled out. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Nooo...the first rule is, you have to have superior road-tripping snacks. Otherwise you may as well turn around and go home.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z By the time the sun dips near the horizon, he’s found seven of our eight maximum the park rules allow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Since Commandant Breuer makes the rules, I guess he can change the rules. But why are you worrying so, Liebchen? I only need three. Perhaps I won’t take you.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Negroes were allowed to use this library now—that rule had passed a few years ago—but I didn’t see them there much. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the Olympic rules state that only the top two qualifiers from any country are permitted to participate. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I read through the application and rules for applying as I imagined myself on the cover of my own cookbook. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z At first I tried to pull it open, but then I remembered changing the rules of the game. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More important, it appeared that he had befriended the Romagna and had won the support of all of its populace once the people began to taste the beneficial results of his rule. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z June’s mom doesn’t care about the “No Meat on Fridays” rule, though. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I beg your pardon, Father, but you won’t. She is in our care now, and there she will remain. That is the rule of our order.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Just want to go back to my mother and eat the food at her table that has no rules about the way to use forks and napkins. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “First thing in the morning,” Dad says, “I’m going down to school with you and we’re airing this whole thing out. There are rules about this kind of thing, Georges. Important ones.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But I don’t have to play by your rules. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Okay? It is wondermous, another word I just made up. Now then, to read you the rules of the game—because every game needs rules—here is your friend and mine, Dr. Yanina Zinchenko!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “They’re convinced they’re so special that they don’t need to follow the rules other people have to follow,” she said, “like presenting their school records when they enroll in a new school.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “What, the rabbits? The birds? Wouldn’t that be against the rules?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Sure, Tanaburi was a scrap of a town with one school and a tiny temple, but they still had to follow the same rules as everyone else. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As a rule, we objected to having our pictures taken in prison on the grounds that it is generally demeaning to be seen as a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The bleachers in this moment were ruled by virgin shoes and wool socks fresh from cellophane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The political, economic, and social institutions most familiar to us today are those of states, which now rule all of the world’s land area except for Antarctica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty of racial prejudice was so often accompanied by absurdity, a tangle of arbitrary rules and distinctions that subverted the shared interests of people who had been taught to see themselves as irreconcilably different. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The way she kissed him back left him doubtless that the rules were once more on hold. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z While their parents were at work, the kids were at school, learning the rules of the new culture, and sometimes using this new knowledge against their parents. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Your mother’s second rule went along with the first. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “No hope of that, with or without the rule.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The rules for watching - and betting on - a Skiz fight are simple enough. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She kept an herb garden for her “medicinals,” as she called them, and a much smaller vegetable garden than Ma Charles’s, but she had no hard, fast rules about where everything came from. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The rule is the same if the sentence is turned around so the after part comes first: After the guests arrive, I will have started dinner. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Alienation between rulers and ruled even extended to matters of simple nomenclature: according to one modern authority on demotic-script documents, the natives studiously avoided referring to Alexandria in the language of their conquerors. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The rules of English syntax force him to put the subject before the verb, and the verb before the object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I need to know how many rules you can break before you’re thrown out, and what those rules even are in the first place. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z That was rule number one, day number one. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He might say he wasn’t going to break any more rules, put his neck in the noose, for my sake. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you should encourage him to live within the confines of our rules, lest he risk his place on this campus.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z As we later reconstructed it from what Primi said, Mami's first reaction was anger that we had broken her rule against eating in our bedrooms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I stare at Pi, begging him to agree with Nana’s rules. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z All Fornatee knew was that the hair rule was putting him in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between his coach and his friends. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He seized power and made his own new rules. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A second bookshelf by the bed was crammed to capacity with old computer magazines and Dungeons & Dragons rule books. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though my confidence had been shaken by what I had seen and experienced, there were times when I disobeyed the rules and thumbed my nose at the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A lot of administrators would have hundreds of complicated rules to follow. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Myriad laws, rules, and regulations operate to discriminate against people with criminal records and effectively prevent their reintegration into the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was a big, good man with a soft baritone, who ruled with easy tact a choir of repressed soloists, and who had an unerring memory for the favorite hymns of District Superintendents. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For some time afterward, a melancholy humour seemed to rule us as well. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But, technically, Axel’s already broken a school rule today by being late...so...he takes off. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t permitted to share the books with my spouse, that’s correct. And there are other difficulties, too. You remember the rule that says the new Receiver can’t talk about his training?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He had made a rule, and kept to it, never to leave his room when he was drinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After Michael is gone, Mr. Patchett takes a deep breath and launches into a long lecture on following rules. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Black Consciousness was less a movement than a philosophy and grew out of the idea that blacks must first liberate themselves from the sense of psychological inferiority bred by three centuries of white rule. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a doctor in England before he returned to Malawi to deliver us from British rule. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The Kitum Cave expedition set up headquarters in the Mount Elgon Lodge, a decayed resort dating from the nineteen twenties, when the English had ruled East Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But that doesn’t make it less true. I didn’t make the rules.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We urged the court to deny the State's request and rule quickly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m the exception, not the rule,” Daddy says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t breaking the rule that I was worried about. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Hold on, Greg. There are human rules of behavior, too. You don’t go out there just like that. Figure out a lottery, and give me my chance.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations, he said, that he was supposed to enforce “sitting in a bar all night long, which I hated.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Talk English,” he called, mostly to show Naomi he remembered the rules. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He began work on a series of rules for thinking which would help him establish the truth; he sold some property so that he could be self-sufficient and concentrate on his great enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She taught me the proper rules for reading and speaking, the French language, and how to sew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rules of mathematics still work, since everything is finite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was no rule or discipline, or anyone to show me right from wrong. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This raises the question of how a careful writer can distinguish a legitimate rule of usage from a grandmother’s tale. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A community of farmers ruled over by a priest, she firmly believed, was the true way of life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “But these are the rules, guys. Don’t like them? Figure out a constructive way to express yourselves.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z During the rule of the junta, he had been expelled from the country for his political views. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Herminia told her once of the gods that rule the night, but Felicia cannot remember their names. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew not to question his authority or bend the rules. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The job, we heard over and over, amounted to care, custody, and control: We gave the orders, in accordance with the rules, and inmates were to follow them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From a window, the tall young man known as Leader looked down and watched the slow and cheerful pace of Village, of the people he loved, who had chosen him to rule and guard them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t his fault, he said, if some refugees hadn’t learned the rules of the road in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “It’s one of the basic rules of breeding,” she said. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Yeah. He’s a college professor. He has to look like that. It’s a rule.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. But you have to understand—you were the exception to the rule. And I didn’t want it to be based on deception. Which is why you’re the first person I’ve ever told.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “But be careful with that,” I said, nodding at the paper, “because if you text me too much, you’ll have to marry me. It’s the rules of my religion.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A common tenant complaint concerned invasive attempts by officials to prove that single women were living with men—a violation of both housing and welfare rules. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One day he told Seaborg triumphantly that he had found an alpha emitter and had already ruled out that it could be an isotope of element 91, 92, or 93. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He’d been vaccinated against B, and he didn’t do drugs, so that ruled out C. Type A was usually caused by drinking contaminated water or eating tainted food. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I knew too well that bad things would happen if I violated the white people's rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We set down a rule: Every aisle has to have a story. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Hey, do you remember what the first rule of punk is?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Whites remembered their rule on the island; blacks remembered their fight for freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “And if we don’t follow Daddy’s rules? He never got to make any before.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But he also shared with us his surprising view that even at the most tightly run prisons, “we rule with the inmates’ consent.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the judge rule in our favor, or are we homeless? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z But she also struggled with rules—and sometimes disobeyed them, such as turning around during the Trinity prayer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some Argie diplomat in New York, still harping on about the Belgrano being outside the zone, said Britain no longer rules the waves, it just waives the rules. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She said it once when they were just about to enter the library, again when she was reading the laundry list of rules. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It is time to confess that I have for many years struggled with one of the lesser rules of the apostrophe. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z On these weekends time would sometimes seem to stop as we pretended that these stolen moments together were the rule not the exception of our lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was an animal and he didn’t play by the rules. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As superintendent of the Union Stock Yards, Sherman ruled an empire of blood that employed 25,000 men, women, and children and each year slaughtered fourteen million animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There were clear rules on how to handle evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What he’d give never to have to see a slide rule again for the rest of his life! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They began to plan people’s lives and libraries; they began to instruct and push about the very people who had come to Mars to get away from being instructed and ruled and pushed about. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I flip to my rule collection and add: if you want to get away with something, don t announce it first. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Mysticism vanished from the realm of mathematics and logic ruled once more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This cartoon explains a traditional rule about two common modal auxiliaries: At least Mrs. O’Malley didn’t give the standard grown-up’s answer to a child’s request with cart: “You can, but the question is, may you?” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z While they were wonderfully gentle and easy-minded, they had rules, and when those rules were broken, sometimes their retaliation was complete and devastating. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She kept thinking of Mia’s smile that day in the kitchen, the capability she saw there to delight in mischief, in breaking the rules. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They came from nowhere, just the way the rules had. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Re-reading rule number 6, he realized that a crushed finger fell into the category of “unrelated to training.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Not that any normal rules of dating applied here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We go out into the hallway and walk—an old-fashioned promenade, arm in arm, in defiance of the no-physical-contact rule. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The rules were pretty clear in our house. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “He got it worse because he didn’t follow the rules.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I read about Queen Nzinga, who ruled in Central Africa in the sixteenth century, resisting the Portuguese. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Well, yes. With a whole bunch of rules and regulations and controls, that’s pretty much how it works.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Some states also initiated mandatory transfer rules, which took away any discretion from prosecutors and judges over whether a child should be kept in the juvenile system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Here, after talking with many experts, filtering many views, it seems there is one rule. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But for the most part, the people of Bakersfield, California, are following the rules of rubbish, meaning that they are tossing their garden waste in the right direction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The races were segregated by a dense, carefully woven web of laws, signs, partitions, arrows, ordinances, unequal opportunities, rules, insults, threats, and customs—often backed up by violence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z There had been no rules against playing dirty. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “He’s in charge of the Library. He makes the rules.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I tried to explain that it was all an accident. But you know how much everyone loved the Hideout. And, like, the one rule was to not let adults find out about it...” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I almost never break the rules at home, but things feel different here. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The local Catholic archduke, steadfast in dogmatic certainty, vowed he would rather “make a desert of the country than rule over heretics.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The lives of sugar workers were ruled by the cane, and by the relentless pace of work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “It operates according to its own rules, without any interference.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z My own case was the exception that proves the rule. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital’s rule took the first crack at the troubling 0/0 expressions that were popping up throughout calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, but do you have any rule against penguins?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z If somebody told me what the rules were, I’d be fine. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “You know the rules. This should have all been done before lunch.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He glanced at his mother, the one responsible for adherence to the rules, and was relieved that she was smiling. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The cheerleaders do another hate-free cheer while Mr. Thomson asks Mr. Bentley to go to the office and sign in as required by the school rules. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Unregulated by the government, it had operated without rules or oversight, almost as its own country, and it had done as it pleased. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Almost instinctively she looked to me and Tommy for support, which was probably a mistake, because Tommy said: “To be honest, I don’t know what you’re all talking about. What rules are these?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As if merely subsisting according to his self-imposed rules weren’t strenuous enough, Rosellini also exercised compulsively whenever he wasn’t occupied with foraging. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules,” I say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The fighting was so intense during the months at Voronezh that sometimes there wasn’t even time to punish people when they disobeyed the rules. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma stopped then, perhaps remembering that the rules were not ours. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Several of the ingredients were synthetic additives that are permitted under federal organic rules. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to understand the rules. You need to follow them. As I said, your work has been sufficient.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Still, the final rule said ... well, he wasn’t quite ready to think about the final rule on the page. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z There were also some gray areas, spaces where the rules were not so clear. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Just two weeks later, on February 8, Bunderson asked the judge to rule that he would advise the jury to question the reliability of the farrier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Each day, Luna’s ability to break rules in new and creative ways was an astonishment to all who knew her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She told me that the first mouse to break the rules would be drowned in a bucket of water by the hall-porter. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Romeo and Juliet didn’t play by the rules. People had expectations for them. Wanted them to act and be a certain way. But they refused.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z You will no longer live under unfair rule. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “Stop, Log-a-Log! You have no right to strike a comrade! He was only stating the facts. Our Guerrilla Union rules clearly state that no member can be forced to venture beyond official shrew boundaries.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ignoring Mamá’s rule, the rest of the girls scrambled to their feet and ran to see where the enchanting voice was coming from. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We objected to this rule, but made little headway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To enforce its rules, North Korea began a substantial buildup of electronic and photographic surveillance along the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There are so many rules for how to be a black person, things you cannot say and places you cannot go. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Sean’s policy is to flout all applicable rules and regulations. arctic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Curiously exempt from the Reverend’s rules was Methuselah, in the same way Our Father was finding the Congolese people beyond his power. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned, stomping away in the general direction of the parking lot, though I hadn’t ruled out walking at this point. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They hit them twice against their chests, the standard response to acknowledging the rules. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was fed up with all the rules forced upon me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In 1996, the Chicago Board of Education enforced new rules saying that students had to make at least a 6.8 grade level in reading and math to move on to high school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Charles valued Gray’s friendship and needed his help in promoting natural selection, he did not rule out the possibility. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That in itself is mind bending since we don't really have any rules to speak of except don't step off your circle for sixty seconds and the unspoken rule about not eating one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I've been ashamed that my mother hid so much from me and broke the rules. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I think we need to do something about rules. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z On the day that Justice de Wet was to rule on Jimmy’s case, we were waiting in the cells underneath the court and I said to Jimmy, “Let us exchange ties for good luck.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to scream that she's all I have and beg them not to take her, but she's broken a rule. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But she breaks the rule two or three times a day, driving ten and fifteen times the one-mile distance. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z To solve the problem, scientists set out to banish zero yet once more and unify the rules that govern the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: ‘Welcome the coming; speed the parting guest.’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Supreme Court ruled the death penalty for nonhomicides unconstitutional and international law strongly disfavors the practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Although I was a member of the royal household, I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the left, large white houses with long columns and graceful verandas ruled the approach to the river with mute elegance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex doesn’t pretend to care about the rules of the game, but his primary turn-on has always been competence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A 1915 rule requiring a photo with every application made race a silent consideration for the final decision. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A Frenchman, not an Englishman, would be remembered for taking the first nibble at the mysterious zeros and infinities that suffused calculus; mathematicians learn of l’Hôpital’s rule when they first learn about calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He felt guilty about leaving Reyna to rule without him, but still...part of him wanted to go back to Camp Half-Blood with Piper and Leo. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Make a beeline there, Theresa. You know the rules.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about Joe Louis and how he ruled in the ring. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She has schedules and rules and methods and every day she does her best to impose these on the world, one chipped fingernail repair at a time. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Someone made a long speech listing every infraction of the rules we were committing that night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She told me about how he and his fellow soldiers were intimidated, arrested, and beaten for failing to comply with government rules about carrying personal identification cards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Even angry Fern stuck to Big Ma’s rule about never using the word liar. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The toys, of course, had been an obvious exception to his rule. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “No, really, Mrs. Krajewska. I know it was against the rules. I’m sorry.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The Lord God chose my father to rule the same way he chose them to serve. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Maybe in my spare time. I’m also going to rule the world.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z ‘But do not give up hope! Gandalf is greater than you Shire-folk know — as a rule you can only see his jokes and toys. But this business of ours will be his greatest task.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Mr. Rice was furious, but we children figured that the mainland schools were too embarrassed to be beaten out by islanders and so made up a rule to save their faces. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, Murray suggested, the rule is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was one of the few rules that was not taken very seriously and was almost always broken. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Those who flouted the rules or resisted them risked the terror of the Klan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And they were taught formal rules of evidence gathering, in order to avoid cases being dropped or stalled, as had happened with the first Osage investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then Ms. Sitton tells us her other rules: No leaving the water park area. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When he was here, Baba joked that in Lahore traffic rules are more like “suggestions.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z My teacher, Miss Carpenter, announced that the Supreme Court had ruled that separate was not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z State Department regularly brought African dignitaries to the city, to show the world that the stories in the sensationalist press about race problems in America were exaggerated or exceptions to the rule of racial comity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This is because Ms. Wyman is big on rules, which will not surprise you, and one of her rules is: Everybody says the Pledge. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z After moving here in 2001 and choking on traffic, she made a rule: “Wherever I’m going has to be within one mile of the house,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And I kind of liked the fact that she’d broken the rules to come sit next to me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This looks to us like a principle, maxim, or rule of thumb, not a law, because it lacks specificity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He’s trying his best to play by her rules, to sound mature, but I hear the catch in his voice when he says: “I really need to see her.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You guys are both forgetting the most important rule,” a voice behind us says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The school could break whatever rules it wanted. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Restricting the computers from joining the editorial meetings wasn’t a rule: it was a rule of thumb. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Sorry, sport. Inmates are allowed only one short visit per day, and we’re already bending the rules for this TV thing. Maybe tomorrow you can see your old man. But call first, okay?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z For these princes rule either by themselves or by means of public magistrates. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I make it a rule never to give references,” said the other firmly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z In the human world, we children were always in the neighbors’ yards, swinging and swimming and jumping, but the rules here are nothing the same. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But on one fateful afternoon last year,Jeffrey threw the rules out the window. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Profound racial injustice occurs when minority police officers follow the rules. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Southern state court judges and all-white juries were all too willing to rule in favor of “defamed” local officials, and state authorities had won millions of dollars in judgments this way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z These language theorists then make up rules that clarify grammar and spelling and point out the relationships between words. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The rule here is that one must be escorted up to the reading room in a lift, whose cramped space makes small talk compulsory as far as I’m concerned. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Because I’m living by those rules now, too? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She had just saved him, but she’d broken her grandmother’s cardinal rule: Don’t stand out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The reasoning behind the rule is not pernicious: the lawmakers presumed that a prison visit would negatively affect the sensitive psyches of children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning was Sunday, and the rule in the Treski house was that everyone could sleep in as late as he or she wanted. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Clearly Cleopatra intended to rule Rome as its queen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z "They're just mad at people who broke the rules. You get just as mad when I break rules. Remember what you did when I watched an extra half hour of television last Tuesday?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But there are new rules now, ones he doesn’t know yet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z No one came to that door as a rule. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The fourth possibility—older boy, younger boy—is ruled out by the fact that a girl answered the door. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t stand under any trees,” Alex said, trying to remember thunderstorm rules from his Fresh Air Fund summers. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “And I do not know exactly what kind of rules your game had, but I suspect that you owe us this much, if we were all put at risk for your wager.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The rules she went over every Saturday, when she led the afternoon visitors’ tour. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Gone were the days when he had been forced to take every single one of the Dursleys’ stupid rules. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “But of course I’ll keep the no candles rule,” he was quick to say. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When challenges to white elite rule arose, all the new Bourbons had to do was inject race into the campaign. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z These rules are a sort of grammar for the language of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Kaye Bacon said she had heard rumors that we wanted to “rule” over them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I no sooner had the sentence out of my mouth than Branwell blinked his eyes twice, very rapidly, and I knew he understood the rules of our communication. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This happened often at our house, but we always knew it was Methuselah, since we did have a door and did not, as a rule, have visitors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a rule that even genies follow. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Dr. King was found guilty by Judge Eugene Carter, the same judge who had ruled in Claudette’s appeal. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The first rule of the street: “Not everything that snaps at you is trying to threaten your manhood.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Ignoring Mom, I pick up my sketchbook and turn to my rule collection. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The Muslims began to put together the rules for this new kind of farming. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The rule: Use each other for two, one another for three or more. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "If you don't know the rules maybe you don't belong here." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I am breaking the rules as I turn the key in the ignition. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Goldman’s rule won hands down in two directions: it was a whopping 70 percent better than the old method at recognizing the patients who weren’t actually having a heart attack. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Spanish physicians lacked the competence that Vesalius was used to, and initial hostility to him as a foreigner became exacerbated by the growth of the independence movement in the Netherlands, then ruled by Spain. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Doing tricks is great! Okay? Breaking the rules is fun! But eventually you’ve got to do something besides being a clever little ugly.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Luma’s hair rule had set off a debate among the veteran players on the Under Fifteen team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The government rules about organic food allow companies to make organic high-fructose corn syrup—words I never expected to see combined. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some prisoners were tortured with electric cattle prods as punishment for violations of the prison’s rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Those are the rules, but the ground is shifting. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Could there be rules beyond the rules that governed the community? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the school taught rudimentary literacy and numeracy, drilled children in camp rules, and constantly reminded them of their iniquitous blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Who got to make the rules up, and how did you add to them or take away from them? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a rule that when Papa came home late, mama was to open the door. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You said it was against the rules to go in the house,” Lissa reminded me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “That will teach him to obey the rules of Rome.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “That’s what they say, but I believe the rich rule here too,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “I assume the Romans—even those reinforcements marching toward us—will also have to honor your rules inside the Pomerian Line if you tell them to?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But in the presence of their subjects, King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude were yoked to each other in rule and in love, bestowing all their pride on their son. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Police would not say whether son Percy is a suspect in his mother’s disappearance, but they have not ruled out foul play. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Most times, Mami was around, telling me the rules: you weren't supposed to give away gifts you received. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Huckaby wore a pleasant smile as she explained to Minnijean that the day to register for the tryouts had long since passed, and they couldn’t violate the rules for her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were abiding by the rules of war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all very well having a rule about not laughing at Toby, but it wasn’t always easy to stick to it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z How do these three rules help us understand teenage smoking, for example, or the phenomenon of word of mouth, or crime, or the rise of a bestseller? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It ruled their waking hours, sapped their bodily strength, and from time to tragic time claimed their mortal flesh. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you wouldn’t rule it for long. The haint infesting you would grow too powerful for even you to contend with, and he’d destroy you. But there’s another way.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I can rule out the rings, at least. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Hoover conceded that some might deem him a “fanatic,” he reacted with fury to any violations of the rules. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Maybe he woke up one morning and decided he simply didn’t want to play a game against people who refused to obey the rules. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For weeks now, Duke Perrington had been pushing for a plan to bring more forces into Eyllwe—to crush the rebels so efficiently that they wouldn’t dare challenge Adarlan’s rule again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z No queen could expect to rule again after that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Your friend, the ruffian, is here. And you know that's against the rules.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Nor do I believe that management rules by divine right or the undiluted force of superior knowledge, as the “surveys” demand you acknowledge. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the people in this hospital you should know the rules against singing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Even during time of war, we must follow the rules of propriety and civilization.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I know it’s probably foolishness, but if it is, I want to rule it out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a team rule. Webb says you have to call if you can’t make a practice or a game.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z As a result, I knew I had to learn all the rules for survival and obey them to the letter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At home, we never had cereal in the middle of the day, but she was taking care of us while Mami went looking for work, and she didn’t know the rules. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mom felt that Grandma Smith nagged and badgered, setting rules and punishments for breaking the rules. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Joe lavished every care on his love, and he perfected a lonely set of rules which might have gone like this: 1. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Stick said girls played games like this all the time, and if you wanted to get anywhere you had to play along until you learned the rules. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She frowned, wondering if maybe some of the old rules didn’t apply in Pittsburgh after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But the rules said the boys each had to use what they purchased. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol’s rules. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of our rules were tried and true; others, we made up on the spot when the occasion called for it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The story that began with Once upon a time, two sisters ruled a magical land, and ended with Viji and Rukku, always together. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The Georgia Supreme Court ruled, by a 4–3 vote, that the stark racial disparity presented a threshold case of discrimination and required the prosecutors to offer a race-neutral explanation for the results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z LiNK has a strict no-dating rule between North Korean refugees and interns, many of whom are college age and far from their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Cersei would be displeased to learn that he had intercepted Stalk's letter, but his father had sent him here to rule, not to please Cersei. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The rules of the universe were fixed: You look a certain way and so you have to act a certain way and people are going to treat you a certain way. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He preferred, as a rule, not to think unpleasant thoughts. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z They'd probably hide under their desks and cuddle with their slide rules for comfort. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But we live in an in-between universe, where things change, but according to patterns, rules, or, as we call them, laws of nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That is stated quite clearly in the rules. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z As a student, I had been taught that South Africa was a place where the rule of law was paramount and applied to all persons, regardless of their social status or official position. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know the rules that guide the interference with any man’s destiny,” Ultima said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "I just wanted to be alone with you. Or as alone as is possible, within the rules." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The Germans even made it a rule: Every flat must hold at least four families. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Those are the rules. One of them needs to be this kid.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s one of the many unspoken rules of complaining while not white. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Always the rules. Where did they come from, Diana? Who gave them to us? Do you remember?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Soon you will rule the world of gods and mortals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Hank will be pleased his new employee has boned up on all the shop’s privacy rules and regs.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Even though my mother's not a Jehovah's Witness, she makes us follow their rules and leave the classroom when the pledge is being said. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z They made it very clear that Paulding Avenue was their home and their rules would apply. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Aren’t there rules for the comma, just as there are rules for the apostrophe? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Once again I had to bend the rules since there are no good local mushrooms in the Bay Area in June. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As we shall see in chapter 6, many spurious rules, including some that have made national headlines, are the result of bungled analyses of grammatical categories like adjective, subordinator, and preposition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Random House Dictionary: “Nothing in the history of the infinitive in English ... supports the so-called rule, and in many sentences ... the only natural place for the modifying adverb is between to and the verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For Cleopatra, luck came in the form of the civil war being waged between Caesar and Pompey, the two generals who now ruled Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He won't have so low of an opinion of me as to think I'd ignore the new rule and keep to myself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Minds like theirs, working together, could rule the world. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Skin color was usually a reliable indicator as to which half of the house a visitor was heading for, but this woman was the exception to the rule. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Similarly, the president was in charge of picking the judge, picking the jury, controlling the evidence, and controlling the rules. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Do I look like I tolerate rule breakers?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The second rule was that every word that sounded like a number, or like it had a number in it, had to be changed so that the number was one higher. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Do you think it’s possible that their rules may be different? And so they simply didn’t know what your play area rules were?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He follows, he says, another very simple rule. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I knew the rule—that you didn’t have to get up for a white person if there were no empty seats left on the bus—and there weren’t. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Didn’t she know she was breaking all the rules? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I got out my one deck of cards and explained the rules. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I read the rules and looked up all the big words in a dictionary. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Their warrior’s code of Bushido required them to always follow five rules of combat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She must be a rule breaker, I thought. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z On Friday evening, a week after my ninth birthday, Mother Lois laid down the law and drew up a new set of rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If nobody else was going to play by the rules, then neither was I. I flung open my bedroom door and nearly bowled Zooey over. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But here is the thing I remembered about Bridget Brown’s story: She didn’t break any rules. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was one of the few rules he obeyed. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t break the rules,” Eurytion warned as we walked up the steps to the front porch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We vowed that we would rule the Twelve Towns. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I told her thanks, and that we were going to do everything to follow the rules and give her the respect she deserves.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “I thought rule number one is ‘Don’t tell the ending.’” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Well, that covers rules one, two, four, five, and a good effort at rule eleven. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “If Trulz allows the game to continue after rules have been broken, he will not be paid a bonus of five hundred thousand dollars ” She didn’t look proud of this condition. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The one who smiled and followed the rules because that was the only thing her father needed from her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She must have broken her rule against drinking that night for when she arrived she was stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already gone to Flushing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Now everyone keep their bloody mouths shut, I mean it. You know the rules—no idea’s unacceptable—and you’ll all have your say when we vote on it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Technically, even on inspection, it was against camp rules for two campers to be . .. like, alone in a cabin. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “You shall rule and name all these creatures, and do justice among them, and protect them from their enemies when enemies arise. And enemies will arise, for there is an evil Witch in this world.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t let him forget the rules. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z That’s when she sat me back down and told me about her rules. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know that. They hammered out those rules after the failure ten years ago.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Like, You have to avoid this truck. Don’t get hit in the head by these metal pipes. Make a right. The rules are defined and you follow them.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The rules had relaxed with less of a ghetto to control. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The rules for pursuing inmates there are not hard and fast, but the conventional wisdom says that it’s smarter to wait for the pursued to leave. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrants ruled the land until fate brought me here, an exile from Greece, from my dear home in Arcady.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Biddy, we got to have us some rules.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Because improv is an art form governed by a series of rules, and they want to make sure that when they’re up onstage, everyone abides by those rules. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s true, that was what we believed: the majority rules. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These rules have made it possible for law enforcement agencies to boost dramatically their rates of drug arrests and convictions, even in communities where drug crime is stable or declining. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather’s rules are your grandfather’s rules. He has his reasons. I’m not about to go breaking them. Or bending them either.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “You consider yourself a rebel. Ignoring the rules because it somehow makes you feel in control. Am I right?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They knew firsthand how white people acted when colored folks broke the unspoken rules, forgot their place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z These were not Bronx rules, these were West Indian rules. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Six feet at all times! You both know the rules!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Because one of the rules is that our shirts have to have collars, so they have to be polos, not tees. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It wouldn’t say, no precious. Little cheat. Not a fair question. It cheated first, it did. It broke the rules. We ought to have squeezed it, yes precious. And we will, precious!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was arguing that Dr. Strayer’s testimony would run afoul of a rule preventing him from suggesting a legal conclusion to the jury. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At any rate, this is a rule that modern grammarians have long tried to get us out from under. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Anxiety flees to rules and order for comfort, and she’s broken a rule today, being here without running here. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She had a face like a dinner roll and blancmange-colored skin, and ruled by wheedling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I nod, even though it breaks the rules. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “For a game with no rules, this game has a lot of rules.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care what their rules say,” I answered. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We have seen that science is an enterprise we have invented and agreed to play by certain rules. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The lack of treatment makes compliance with the myriad rules that define prison life impossible for many disabled people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s all so strange—her parents, the rules, all the things I don’t know about Diana’s life. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Under the rules,” said Miss Hennepin, “you could be suspended from school.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The city would be ruled by the principles of the Pilgrim’s God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then they can plan ahead and obey their rules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the men’s bathroom, inmates smoked—also against the rules but, from what I could tell, tacitly accepted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was true, the priest that came with the first colonizers to the valley of El Puerto had raised a family, and it was the branches of this family that now ruled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I left you with a council to rule over you, Dany thought, a healer, a scholar, and a priest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Meaning: He was dyed-in-the-wool on issues like abortion, and was a fiscal conservative, of course, but he was willing to consider less strict rules on things like immigration. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I asked you about the rules,” she reminded him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Kept going, through corridor after corridor, deep into the heart of the Maze, rules or no rules. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Now that I'm in a “dire situation,” I don’t have to follow social rules anymore. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe, if we had all played by the rules, they might have let him live. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Since the first day in the Annex room, they had together disregarded the rules about rudeness, and Jonas felt comfortable with that now. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But when such remarks caused him additional fears and concerns, he just enforced new rules upon his children—hard-to-follow, strict rules. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There is only one common exception to this rule. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The three rules of the Tipping Point — the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context — offer a way of making sense of epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Minister of Justice ruled the case accidental—her private doctor confirmed she'd had health challenges before having beauty work done. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In 1997 it proposed a very loose set of rules that gave agribusiness everything it wanted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The pied-piping rule allows the what to pull the at with it to the front of the sentence, yielding At what are you looking? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sneaking out after curfew was against the rules, too. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the rule with soldiers. Take the good pewter out to the barn and hide it in the hay.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I never ruled out the possibility of even senior ANC men breaking down under police torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I offer the Schieffer-Ardolino and Financial Times cases as just two examples of how the flattening of the world has happened faster and changed rules, roles, and relationships more quickly than social science can capture. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Council rules or no Council rules, Thomas had finally had enough. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The only possible exception to this rule was the Upper South, to include the states of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z No sooner would an officer become savvy as to which rules were commonly ignored, however, than somebody in a white shirt would appear to shake up his whole understanding of accepted practice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z First we are confronted—via an announcement on the computers through which we input orders—with the new rule that the hotel bar, the Driftwood, is henceforth off-limits to restaurant employees. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, no matter how the Supreme Court ruled, the entire Pentagon Papers would be in the Congressional Record, available to anyone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And now that he’s once again living in the same city as I do, the custody rules have changed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “And don’t you go forgetting the rules. No trying to escape from the house. And there’s no need to break up the furniture either. Don’t make me demonstrate my full nelson.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Nick had heard his older brother, James, groan and grumble about this rule for years, right up until he graduated from high school two years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell him not to talk to me, ever, as a general rule. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In case you don’t know how to play HORSE, these are the rules. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There is this unwritten rule: We all respect each other. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Closer at hand, it was the trees that ruled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Homer makes Poseidon say that he rules the sea, Hades the dead, Zeus the heavens, but Olympus is common to all three. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You cannot guarantee Parliament would rule treason. It’s too dangerous.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the rigid rules governing bug boys, Pollard was not even allowed to turn his head to look at his father as he rode past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We played by Carlos’s rules and he refused to let Manuelito play. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Only a few words of it are now, as a rule, remembered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Jehovah’s Witnesses took the Bible as the sole rule of faith and believed in a coming Armageddon between good and evil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I overheard him tell Edna that his mom took his phone away for the whole weekend because Miss McDaniels told her that he had been breaking school rules when he got hurt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Franklin’s ancestors may have emigrated from Europe to escape oppressive rules, but colonial societies were still vastly more coercive and class- ridden than indigenous villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Having decided I was dreaming, I did what one does in dreams: I tried to understand and use the rules of this queer reality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I’m getting up to stretch my legs. Sorry” “Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over,” Mary Lou said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But there was one realm which was handed over to the solid rule of a goddess. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As he pressed the newspapers deeper into the garbage pail, Eliot felt that he and Mrs. Sen were disobeying some unspoken rule. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He eyes us both, explaining the rules in his reed-thin voice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z By the rules, a boy had to be at least sixteen to ride, but no one ever asked for a birth certificate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Copper was plentiful in the Ghiscari hills, but the metal was not as valuable as it had been when bronze ruled the world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Linguists capture their regularities in “descriptive rules”—that is, rules that describe how people speak and understand. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And there were many other rules that Mia and Pearl would not be aware of for a long time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z None of the four options for uranium enrichment—electromagnetic or thermal separation, gaseous diffusion, or the centrifuge—had clearly outdistanced the others, so none could be ruled out. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The rules of parley dictated that only the lieutenants could speak once negotiations had begun. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Mary Lou wanted to ask her sister about the plans they’d made, about being pirate queens who played by their own rules. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He was finally able to obtain a match for his son with one of the emperor's many granddaughters, and his son would inherit the rule of a remote city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Ernest and his colleagues left a profound impression on President Eisenhower, though not enough to prompt him to rule out a test ban entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite’s cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone’s heart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Hers was the only voice of authority up here, and even the eleven- and twelve-year-old boys were terrified of this female ogre, for she ruled with a rod of steel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I understand that if Thresh wins, he'll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One day, he urged his squad to design a distinctive banner that would stand out among the others, even though it was breaking the rules. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The rules of Blackcliff demand that she voice her anger at the deserter’s betrayal. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry. You broke the rules. I have to turn you in.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then, we politicals gathered in our comer and rehearsed the three cardinal rules: Never believe them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two Native American peoples, the Aztecs and the Incas, ruled over empires with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They also knew the punishments for disobeying the rules, and they knew them well, because they had broken every rule in the Boxton Creek Home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know those doors were actually some sort of portal into a narrow, parallel universe where rules are carved into tablets of stone and ideas haven’t changed for a couple thousand years. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Had she allowed reason to rule, she would have realized that Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was the night of April 15, and the Internal Revenue Service had just changed a rule. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A crime, RJ advocates say, is not an act against a rule, it’s an act against a person. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So many of our archaic traditions and rules need to be challenged. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was as though he had thrown the world out of orbit all with a single kiss, sent gravity head over heels, and along with it, the rules that I thought governed us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "Not until I’m safely there. The fewer people who know, the better. You know the rules." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z That was another one of those unspoken rules: maids didn’t talk about themselves. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thrilled to see you, okay? It’s just that this isn’t allowed. There are rules.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “No. I don’t like it. Too many rules. It’s not like the way my family treated me. I always got my way at home.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There’s a line, “instincts don’t rule out learning.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In Gym, we had a lecture on the rules of badminton, the next torture they had lined up for me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As a rule we walk down the middle, but today Cordelia goes right to the railing and leans on it, looking over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But it was, of course, against the rules. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Breaking the rules didn’t come naturally to him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “But it is for the best. Leo could not be tolerated, even as an ice statue...not after he insulted me. The fool refused to rule at my side! And his power over fire...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Just as the basic rules for putting together sentences and paragraphs help people understand each other, knowing what to expect from a piece of music helps people understand and like it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The unspoken rule of magic in Zmeyreka—and maybe all of Kievan Rus’—was that if you were going to use it, make sure no one saw you. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But today, the rules went out the window. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “They changed the rules. Can you fetch my brother, please? Sir?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the new rule, both tributes from the same district will be declared winners if they are the last two alive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “This isn’t some silly school rule. They’ll get a lot more than detention for blackmail! Ron. . . maybe you’d better tell Percy. “Are you mad?” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My self-imposed rule was that each conversation must start on a thankful note. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe I broke a rule about the bowl, putting worms in it.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z If they were playing knockout, Scott always came up with a new rule that helped him win. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Physicists as a rule are not overattentive to the pronouncements of Swiss patent office clerks, and so, despite the abundance of useful tidings, Einstein’s papers attracted little notice. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z How do you escape the real estate rule of location, location, location? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Well, we can attack and still use epi, but we have to use an accusative because of the first rules.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was the third brother among the Olympians, who drew for his share the underworld and the rule over the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, I find public architecture stimulating. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Everything on the island was ruled by this moment, measured by proximity, either before or after, to this moment. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As in Rwanda, a Tutsi minority ruled over a Hutu majority for decades. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z My earliest memories are of being in that greenhouse with Mom, growing our little plant family, following her rules, watering and fertilizing each seed just right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z First rule of self-defense is: Don’t ask your attacker for validation. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The rule around my house when the parents are away is that I’m not allowed to date. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the legal framework of American society—new “rules of the game,” so to speak. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I was like, Mom rules at this game.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z George Washington, true to the intelligence rule of keeping bits of espionage in separate boxes, was aware of Franklin’s operations but usually did not deal directly with him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hell, no. Against the rules. Here comes Smith.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when I was young and adopted the rules of the street, anyone who knew me knew it was a bad fit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It would have been wrong to say that Gary Edwards abused the rules, because by his own account and those of others there were no rules for football players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It brought with it many ground rules designed to imprison and control everyone who was not white. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z French culture includes a set of customs or rules about how to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You aren’t going to start living by the rules, are you?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It irritates me so much I taped this rule right above my doorknob. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a game. These are the rules. I didn’t make them up. See. Here. In the book.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt no reaction to rule number 7 at all. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Colored folks who’d broken some unspoken rule, gotten uppity and acted above their station, and paid the price for such an error with their lives. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His wife ruled out the notion, but still, the idea burrowed into him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z By the rules devised for the 1936 Olympic rowing regatta, each of the fourteen eight-oared crews was to have two chances to make it into the medal race on August 14. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He studied his grandfather’s rule book and talked strategy with his dad. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Teleki’s association with the Hungarian uprising against Austrian rule in March 1848, a revolt that was crushed by Imperial armies and followed by a punitive policy of Germanisation, led to him being sentenced to death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Even within states, different public school districts have different rules about how many days you can miss.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Didn’t we all dream from time to time about one guardian or other bending the rules and doing something special for us? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Thirteens followed her system—my rules, my drills, my way—and their record, Luma felt, showed the results. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z We had a lot of rules in our house. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There’s an unspoken rule that when your grandparent is serving, you have to get in the back of the line. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It’s as if it were physically impossible for me, as if I were allergic to rules. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “They think that, under his rule, they will have a better life,” said Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Despereaux, seeing her tears, broke the last of the great, ancient rules of mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z It was the first place I’d lived that was Western, not African, and I felt I was entering a new world whose rules were not yet clear to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other main area of discussion was the issue of majority rule. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He would have a child, and that child would grow up to rule my village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Don’t ask questions — that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z These were rules aimed at something obvious—the great danger that haunted every visit to Shake & Bake, every bus ride downtown. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “If any rules are meant to be broken, it’s the stupid ones.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z And then, in one last, utterly futile gesture, Carter ruled that the MIA car pool was illegal and must stop operating. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But you have to understand, there were hundreds of forms to fill out, and nobody knew English all that well, and the rules changed all the time, and the agents hated talking to us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I’ve dreamed of being in this pageant for as long as I can remember. There’s nothing in the rules that says fatties need not apply.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The deal is, once they call the ambulance, you have to go to the hospital and get checked out, that's a rule. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she was, pretending she had, to get them out of trouble. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z As I’ve said, we never mentioned it to the guardians and looking back, it seems to me this was a rule we imposed on ourselves, as much as anything the guardians had decided. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, on good days, what I was learning in college excited me in ways the street and its erratic and petty rules never could. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “You heard what Coach said. School rules apply here. Besides, we need him for tomorrow’s game.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The city is ruled by a council of fifty people, composed entirely of representatives from Abnegation, because our faction is regarded as incorruptible, due to our commitment to selflessness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z All my life I’ve tried to set my shoes squarely into his footprints, believing if only I stayed close enough to him those same clean, simple laws would rule my life as well. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Here’s an exception to the “/before e” rule. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But on another, by keeping new officers on their toes and keeping the blocks running according to the rules—by being a force for consistency—Wickersham may have been insuring himself against repeating the experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are rules for necking, which we observe: approach, push away, approach, push away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want to explain why you thought you could break the rules?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Pah! You are too soft. He needs only two things: a wife to rein him in and his own bloody kingdom to rule,” the king growled in reply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Felix didn’t care if it was bending—or breaking—the rules. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, these princes of ours who have ruled their principalities for many years and who have subsequently lost them should not blame Fortune, but rather their own indolence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Grover, please remember the rules about discussing these matters in front of your child.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He declared to the people that he did not wish to rule over them; he wanted a people’s government where all would be equal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Now here was this Mia, a completely different kind of woman leading a completely different life, who seemed to make her own rules with no apologies. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I picked up the cards and shuffled them and laid them out again one by one, in accordance with the strategic rules that he himself had taught me, and beat his score by fifty points. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I hope David can learn that rule by September, when we have to go back to the bus stop. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “They pay for what I provide by working for me, keeping the place clean, obeying my rules. No smoking, no lying, no stealing.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The only rule, which had not been rigorously enforced, was that you couldn’t aim at anything made of glass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The PSFs and camp controllers enforced the rule with the same level of severity they did with the kids who—however intentionally or unintentionally—used their abilities. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The rules don’t quite apply to us, nor protect us either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During the height of the festivities, the chief took Mwase to the top of the highest hill and looked down where the Chewa ruled. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z My roommate doesn’t believe in missing meals, and apparently that rule goes for me too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As a result, cosmetic diversity, which focuses on providing opportunities to individual members of under-represented groups, both diminishes the possibility that unfair rules will be challenged and legitimates the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not police dogs or anything, but when I saw it wasn’t just me who decided to break the no-armband rule today, I did have visions of all of us rule-breaking, armband-wearing students getting rounded up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z A reward marriage was the only safe way around the no-sex rule. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “And I need you to understand that we make rules for a reason, not to punish you.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Here she is, following the rules for years, working toward nothing more than being some lady’s Attendant, and the powers that be decide she’s too pretty for such drudgery and ship her out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Remember the rule,” I whisper, my hand pushing David’s back to hurry him. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Equality is not the general rule, then? Are they mentally inferior?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z How good people’s decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The doors of the Apprentices’ Quarters were locked and sealed at nightfall, and there were no exceptions to the rule. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “I have two rules for my Thanksgiving dinner,” Felix's mom said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Remember how the rules came into our heads and we knew them without anyone telling us what they were?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Their faces are mirrors of each other, but their bodies are opposites—one tall and skinny and the other short and chunky—as if Princess ruled their mother’s womb and Primadonna was an underfed peasant. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z How could I ever forget May 17, 1954, the day the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The previous season, she had been so impressed by Prince’s talent on the field that she allowed him to get away with skirting the team rules. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Let me think a minute. Oh yes, I do believe we have a rule about not letting any donkeys on the roof.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The game was declared a draw through the special rule of repetition—that is, when a position comes about three times, not necessarily in succession, the game is automatically a draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “We had to bend your rules to help save his life.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z That we should all try to get along in here as well as we can, follow the rules. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Those rules are only guidelines based on patterns discovered by the theoreticians, which is why there are usually plenty of "exceptions" to every rule. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau, the younger had ruled the older. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was just one exception to this rule: Louisiana, where the native-born enslaved population kept dropping. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I know, dummy, but the rules are the rules.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Those rules, called the Geneva convention, were agreed to in 1929 and signed by almost every major nation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks . The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And her voice has got something in it this time, like the rule of law, so much so that Matthew flinches a little. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “We need to find a central spot, and then we’ll go over rules.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Devon, muffled under the gentle occupation of the snow, was dominated by them; the cold Yankee stars ruled this night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wrong. The rule was we weren’t supposed to talk about the accident with each other. The rule doesn’t apply to anyone else.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Certainly it was one of the ninety-nine rules—inmates were never to touch gates, apart from the doors of their own cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He seems to make his own hours and his own rules, with little interference from the captain, and is the only one on the ship who makes any sense. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The pair nodded, afraid to speak in case that broke the silence rule. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “A devoted Swirly carries Flush paraphernalia at all times. That’s rule number one. Rule number two is Flush adornment makes the world a better place. Besides, sticker slapping never hurt anyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If I want Ma to trust me, I have to follow her rules—for now, at least. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Someday, I’m going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Besides, there’s no rule that says only punks can dye their hair, is there?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He ruled the schoolyard like some kind of sixth-grade mob boss. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “The devil uses his Masonry to rule other people.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And though the American Medical Association had issued rules protecting laboratory animals in 1910, no such rules existed for humans until Nuremberg. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And how could he someday rule a country whose soldiers had been trained to have so little compassion for human life? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z ‘Kymopoleia, when Gaia rules, you will rage and storm without restraint!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z These are the simple rules of his house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mean folk shall rule the last remnant of the Kings of Men, lurking in the hills until all are hounded out.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But when one group rules over the others for so long. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She missed her mother’s help to understand and rule herself, but having been taught where to look, she did her best to find the way and walk in it confidingly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ghohg came to rule us from beyond. We do what he demands. He is very powerful. Also, very surprising.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It was the time of adapting to unthinking obedience, of learning to carry bedpans in a stack, and remembering a fundamental rule: never walk up a ward without bringing something back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And what were the rules again if you were surrounded? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, he seemed to realize that we weren’t playing by hippie rules. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Everyone laughed at him. They said a man who was one inch tall could never rule a village. They got so worked up that they started arguing again.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They chuckled about how tribal Nigerian politics was, and perhaps these chaps were not quite so ready to rule themselves after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Has no one told you the rules?” said Gregory “What rules?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He needed to try one more time to get her to change the rules. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Conclude from that that Gary Edwards had actually been ineligible for the past three weeks, which meant, under the rules, that Carter would have to forfeit all three games played during that period. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The only rule is that there are no rules. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘Rules are rules. As a praetor, you should understand that. This distribution centre is one of our most important bases. We have to control access. I can’t make exceptions, especially not for my family.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ rule was formulated only in the eighteenth century, and the whole point of this rule is that juries have to decide for themselves what it means. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But it is important to remember that forms are not sets of rules that composers are required to follow. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis, the partner of the god-king Osiris, who the Egyptians believed had ruled as pharaoh on Earth. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Chaos continued to rule in our country when, two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as police led him through the basement of the Dallas jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “House rules,” Aaron said as he flipped over the tiles. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Besides, the rule at Garland back then was that we all belonged to each other, and it didn’t matter who was related by blood. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The Dauntless have rules against attacking someone like that, but with people like Eric in charge, I suspect those rules go unenforced. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The rules said he and Felix couldn’t buy gifts for other people. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Judge Davies ruled that the case would continue. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The horses are splendid, and the men, especially the grooms, ride well, but the women are stiff, and bounce, which isn’t according to our rules. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “You seem to have lost your general somewhere as well. Your rule hasn’t even formally begun, but it certainly appears chaotic.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The lines struck me as wistful suggestions of a stricter time, of rules now observed in the breach, a memory fading like the strict lessons of the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember you said we should think hard about going against the rules? Remember you said that. Well, I have thought hard.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After the meeting, when Mom told me that I said, “I love rules.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Every driver understood from the day he was hired that his main job, other than driving the bus, was to enforce the Jim Crow rules. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z California racing rules mandated that no horse carry fewer than 100 pounds, and Seabiscuit was clearly more than 30 pounds better than most horses on the West Coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the best efforts of grammatical exorcists, the ghosts of dead rules and the spirits of imaginary taboos are still rattling and thumping about the old place. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But since my cousins moved away, the rules have both tightened and loosened in odd ways. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But Montgomery had its own rules and traditions. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what the police are going to find, and it’s going to be their decision, you understand, but I don’t think they’ll rule it a suicide.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “So why is it allowed there? Why don’t the same rules apply?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You want to stick with us, you play by our rules.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “If you folks at the City Hall don’t even know what penguins are, I guess you haven’t any rule saying they have to be licensed. I will do without a license for Captain Cook.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom believed that children shouldn’t be burdened with a lot of rules and restrictions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I hated school back when Mean Teacher ruled over us. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I used my knowledge of this phase of spiritual pathology, and laid down a rule that she should not be present with Lucy or think of her illness more than was absolutely required. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Cause young dudes are subject to change the rules.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a generous people, as a rule. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That seemed impossible to me, so Dad eased the rules. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There were good kids on the team who followed her rules, he said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Right. I’ll bet you don’t feel like doing anything against the warden’s rules.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t keep you from medical care. But you know very well”—he looked straight at me—“that Delia Santos is on the political list. The rules clearly state, no contact with politicals.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Though as a rule I usually didn’t have much money to spare. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital’s rule was extremely important for resolving some of the difficulties with 0/0, but the underlying problem remained. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Briggs’s rules prohibiting publication of fission-related articles soon expanded to a blanket ban on any discussion of the topic outside the confines of the laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he does make up his own rules sometimes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "Greetings to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He would make Cleopatra his queen and rule as a god. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The only protection from grief was silence and rules. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Get me an outside line to E1. This Fowl person seems to know all of our rules, so it’s time to break a few.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Penny, I hope you figure out how to become immortal so you can rule this place for as long as you like.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Their tiny brains had no room for rules or restraint. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There was a very good chance they were going to get caught by Filch or Mrs. Norris, and Harry felt he was pushing his luck, breaking another school rule today. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He had set things up so that kings would rule the territories according to their own traditions. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Like I said, these guys were feeding on the chaos, living by video game rules. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Washington Post. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z So long as the memory of them lasted, Rome was always uncertain of those possessions; but once this memory had been wiped out because of their long and powerful rule, the Romans became sure possessors. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z My dad generally got home a few hours later than my mom, but as a rule she never ate dinner without him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Youths get “positive checks” for complying with the rules, but also for using the interpersonal skills necessary to do well on the outside—skills like asking for help or talking through a conflict. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Park looked at Eleanor; he didn't know what the rules were, as far as going out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He pulls his hands away, laughing loudly like he’s forgotten any rules about volume. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Although he was exempted from the rules against rudeness, he was aware that this was a rude question. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z This was bad news, indeed, and all were weeping when they left Circe’s isle and turned their prow toward Erebus where Hades rules with awesome Persephone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “We must not let another dictatorship rule us!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You could play by the rules, keep yourself clean, do everything right, and still the Nazis would kill you for looking at them wrong. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes an ancient prohibition becomes outdated, or it may turn out that a musty convention was never really a rule at all. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As always, I threw my backpack at the bottom of the stairs—one of my mom's rules—before heading into the kitchen to grab a snack. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To Virginians like Madison and Jefferson, on the other hand, Duer was not the exception, but the rule. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He must come to El Puerto and rule over the Lunas of the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She answered him in monosyllables, as though he had betrayed her by breaking the rules of her pretense. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system but also to the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As a rule, fencing is only allocated ten medals during the Olympic Games, even though there are technically twelve events. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Most students obeyed the principal’s rules and flocked like sheep when wolves are on the prowl. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The human beans is making rules to suit themselves,’ the BFG went on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z An athlete who gets caught cheating is generally condemned, but most fans at least appreciate his motive: he wanted so badly to win that he bent the rules. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She and my dad offered guidelines rather than rules. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “It sounds like there are no rules here at all,” Sticky said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I think all of the kids with me were from Virginia, but there was no way to be sure, because there was only one big rule: and that was Silence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She was abandoning herself to a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was still feeling cautious, and more than a little wary of strangers, but...Mama had taught her the rule of kin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was so accustomed to the rules and protocol on campus that it took me a second to realize I might be responding to the orders of some random drunk kids from town. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We didn’t even have the dumb rules that ruined everything. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z When I was alone, I wandered and poked my fingers into strange chemicals, watched intricate machines trace red and black lines upon ruled paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z By following simple rules like these, people solved the omnivore’s dilemma. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I think we have arrived in a backward world—where black skins are few and not respected and pale skins seem to rule,” Amari commented quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dark World operates by no rule except one: Stay anonymous. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Why? Do you actually care about someone other than the Berperson and her special rules of life?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z "You can't. Please just go home and come back tomorrow ready to follow the rules." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z That was why, as much as it chafed him, Jason followed rules. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Nora also says that the only other rule is we all have to keep it clean. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Alex thought the rules were stringent, but they made sense, and he was relieved that what was called for was so carefully spelled out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She and Knife were members of the Portuguese tribe, who once ruled Mozambique and Angola. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Having ruled out a heart attack, the cardiologist, James Herrick, assigned the case rather casually to a medical resident named Ernest Irons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes the Carter Cowboys’ football coach, Freddie James, lectured his talented subjects on the evils of what would happen if they acted too wild and showed no respect for rules and order. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Washington later that day, a judge barred the Washington Post from printing any more Pentagon Papers stories until the court could rule on the government’s case against the paper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "We will not have any more displays like these again. You are to follow the rules and stay on the path. Understood?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It seemed to me that our own rules redoubled plunder. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In those days before the Thunderhead, human arrogance, self-interest, and endless infighting determined the rule of law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Its caste system was, to him, the just rule of a perfect world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In addition, the work he did following those ground rules was of immense importance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Others carried amulets or charms inside their space suits, even though it was technically against the rules to bring anything inside the suit except your body and the surgical scrubs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, hey, there was nothing in the rules that said we couldn’t share the top prize. I just want to win!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z If she agreed with me that a rule was stupid, she wouldn’t punish me for breaking it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I like that rule,” Ms. Friendly replied, and winked at Felix. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It seemed extraordinary that Hermione’s mania for upholding rules could have abandoned her at this crucial juncture. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes the rule is that each move must be completed in no more than a second. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Our rules dictated that the girl’s choice be respected and once she had chosen her favorite, she was free to continue on her journey escorted by the lucky boy she loved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been fighting against white minority rule for three-quarters of a century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Over the years military planners have arrived at a rule of thumb which dictates that functional fighting units cannot be substantially larger than 200 men,” Dunbar writes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, Evelyn stands among the pieces of Jeanine Matthews’s portrait in the Erudite headquarters lobby and announces a new set of rules. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “There’s only one rule. You do everything I say, or I’ll let her soul go. How does that sound?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Keep the knife too. A Scholar girl should always carry a weapon, no matter what the rules say.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Release is always like that? For people who break the rules three times? For the Old? Do they kill the Old, too?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But one of the ways private schools do that is by following all the rules. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So that leaves Cato and the girl from District 2, who are now surely celebrating the new rule. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The question read: “According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have a rule against dancing,” I tell her. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He acted too perfect—always following the rules, always doing the honorable thing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He’s breaking the rules, under their noses, thumbing his nose at them, getting away with it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rules keep shifting about who can get in and who can’t.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I wanted you to see different people living by different rules. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I usually just mumble, because it is very difficult to explain all about these rules and crew changes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My father would come and take me home any day now, but until then I had to play by the rules of this house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Below it is listed a series of rules. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He stated that I had no place in a society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I could not appeal to the same human heart whose elementary response I knew nothing of. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She was afraid that asking such questions might somehow be against the rules. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But more are complicated, sometimes rules: You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z One may object—possibly—that this puts the matter somewhat too simply, but the song is true, and it has been true for as long as white men have ruled the world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The book described a variation oFchess that seemed to be the forerunner of Fischer Random, with the exact same rules. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Oh, yes—don’t forget that they also help write many of the rules that govern this whole game. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This dynamic, which legal scholar Reva Siegel has dubbed “preservation through transformation,” is the process through which white privilege is maintained, though the rules and rhetoric change. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My testing of the rules had gotten me into trouble several times, but I couldn't keep myself from crossing the lines that Grandma had drawn. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Every Negro family in Bumblebee knew the unwritten rules—they had to take care of their own problems and take care of one another. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Since when is bad cleanliness against the rules? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I suspect she made up that rule for my benefit, so I could grow unfettered, without the weight of wet rags dragging me down. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The rules are pretty straightforward: an adjective is put down, like maybe “awkward,” and everyone has to throw down a noun that best fits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She wanted to know the rules about au pairs. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Keep kosher, light candles on Friday nights, follow rules and traditions. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z While couching their views in the honeyed language of Southern progressivism, the men who ruled Durham were as opposed to integration as their less cultured counterparts throughout the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z "When I rule, I believe I will pack you off to the silent sisters." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Also, British lords used to dress in their white linens in the jungle and look at how long they ruled the world. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z And my mom doesn’t know any of the rules. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Harry heavily, resigned to explaining the complicated rules of Quidditch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z No Muslim smokes—that was another of our rules. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we didn’t have rules,” his wife would say, “these children would eat us alive.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z While a simple brute could never have prevailed over his men the way Lynds did, brute force was certainly indispensable to his rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In their opinion, religious rule had damaged the country they once loved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “It’s in the tournament rules. “I was supposed to work out how to get past the dragon on my own too,” Harry muttered, so only Hermione could hear him, and she grinned rather guiltily. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He may not buy into the fish tank rule, but he’s got this one down pat: if you want someone, to Leave you alone, agree with her. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get on this ride or go back down the stairs. You can’t stand here. It’s against the rules.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Such was Charn, that great city, the city of the King of Kings, the wonder of the world, perhaps of all worlds. Does your uncle rule any city as great as this, boy?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z They made arrangements to meet again and agreed to a few basic rules. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I shut my eyes, waiting for him to switch on the cheap nightstand lamp, but he kept to his rule: no lights outside the bathroom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The room had the same otherworldly quality it usually did, as if the regular rules of space and time that applied in the hallways were suspended here. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I usually don’t share my rule collection with anyone but David, but Jason’s different. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought of the rules he had broken so far: enough that if he were caught, now, he would be condemned. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Rule thy passion, for unless it obeys, it rules you.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Howard didn’t really need to be my Backpack Buddy anymore since I knew my way around school and I definitely knew the rules. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The romance was advancing too quickly and with a degree of intimacy that violated all the intricate rules of courtship. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She couldn’t share it with Celia; that was one of the rules of Insomnia Con. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “The rule of this flat? What are you talking about, the rule of this flat?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I’m thinking of our family rule about no secrets. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As they drew closer, the black cloud, which surely came from a burning refinery in Dunkirk, was beginning to rule the northern sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “But in this case you’re asking me to bend the rules. And I’m not about to. You may think it’s the right thing to do, but I do not.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Although it was against the rules, they often stuffed bracken, osmunda, and other ferns inside their uniforms and brought them home to their mothers to make side dishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Moreover she took it for granted that everyone, or nearly everyone, secretly hated the Party and would break the rules if he thought it safe to do so. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Everywhere it reflected the authoritarian spandrels of his character, from its surfeit of policemen to its strict rules against picking flowers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but I only broke a little rule,” I replied. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But with modifiers there is no such rule. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Maybe it had been one of her rules—especially as one of the first women ever to attend Fullbrook. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And that was okay because I’d discovered that maybe the first rule of punk was to make your own rules. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Few rules constrain the exercise of his or her discretion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was one of those confusing village rules. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And we will have to make more rules, I said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Your father didn’t set much store by rules either,” Snape went on, pressing his advantage, his thin face full of malice. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z These new legal rules have ensured that anyone, virtually anywhere, for any reason, can become a target of drug-law enforcement activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public. I was born Dennais first, Threpe second, and count last of all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A useful rule of thumb in this regard is to forget the adults and pay attention to the behavior of the children. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Though it was probably against the rules, I thought having a pet was healthy, and occasionally asked him about it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don’t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But invariably the grinning Nines, who in technical violation of the rule had been practicing secretly for weeks, would mount and ride off in perfect balance, training wheels never touching the ground. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to physical altercations. School rules dictate she be expelled. Taking her scholarship is the smallest punishment I can offer.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Absolutely no answer—but still, doesn’t rule anything out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Negi, leave it alone. Those are the rules,” she said, a warning in her voice. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z "Windy and cold and damp. A miserable hard place, in truth . . . but my lord father once told me that hard places breed hard men, and hard men rule the world." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “We think it must be from a thousand years ago when the forests were ruled by your people, before you yielded them up to us.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “When we unite the kingdoms under one rule, we’ll make sure that never happens. We’ll make sure no one is ever again corrupted by the power of the Book.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Instead of the classic newjack mistake of enforcing a rule that nobody really cared about, I had just enforced a rule that wasn’t a rule, for my “brother in gray.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You could tell from his “supposed” that this rule was not strictly enforced. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in their lives the Greeks of Asia Minor were out from under Turkish rule. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The letter was in his big sprawling hand on a long ruled sheet torn out of the store’s ledger book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “These is white rules. I don’t know which ones you following and which ones you ain’t.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The rules that applied to others did not apply to him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If he caught the boys with visitors now, they were not only breaking one of the Institute’s very few rules, but lying about it as well. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And yet I found myself hating the rule and all governments that made rules. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “She forced it to go to that situation on the bus so that she could rule out Erudite—except Erudite wasn’t ruled out.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What happens in 1968 will rule the fate of European optometrists for at least 50 years! Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of the restrictions of prison, we had only a few rules to obey. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I then truly realized that I was in a country ruled by Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As a dishwasher, I was at the very bottom of the kitchen hierarchy, so I needed to follow the rules and not mess up. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Central to the Japanese identity was the belief that it was Japan’s divinely mandated right to rule its fellow Asians, whom it saw as inherently inferior. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He hadn’t ruled out prophecies entirely, but he was skeptical about anything Sandwich came up with. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "After that my own rule is to let everything alone." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Which means we now have three praetors! The rules clearly state we can only have two!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A man shall choose who it is shall rule over him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But with the rise and spread of Islam, those holy lands were no longer ruled by Christians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Or reminding me what the three rules were. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The single most interesting word, when it came to the bending and ignoring of rules, was contraband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Is not she? Then she is no rule for Mrs. Churchill, who is as thorough a fine lady as any body ever beheld.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Tribesmen are protected under a treaty; during the invasion, they accepted Martial rule in exchange for free movement for their people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z That might seem to rule out both rapid space travel and travel back in time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mutual’s newspaper was quite open about the company’s determination to resist Du Bois’ call for an aggressive challenge to white rule. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules, Miss New Hampshire. They exist for a reason. For taking the Lord’s name in vain, you owe me another quarter. You also spoke without the baton. Latrine duty for you, too.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z What made it fundamentally different from the other housing units of Sing Sing was that its inmates did not, as a rule, leave the building; in fact, they barely left their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was reckless, and reminded me of all the low marks you received during your training because you simply ignored the rules. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z If you broke the rules, then they broke you. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But Helen and Theresa and Mona and Callie all knew the rules; and so he waited, as he waited for everything, in vain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Was she a meek, obedient little woman, or someone like Mrs. Cutler, who would rule him as he ruled the girls under his watchful eye? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The rule is every other month he sees us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z You had to get good at saying no, and learn a couple of rules about it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither do I wish that it be thought presumptuous if a man of low and inferior social condition dares to examine and lay down rules for the governance of princes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Soon Mother will send word of his birth to the bishop, who will rule on our future, but for now my delight in Hamlet overcomes any fear. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Like all vegetarians, I had to decide on my rules and exceptions. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was just one rule: We couldn’t use an ingredient that would spoil and stink up the classroom, like milk, or something that wasn’t good for us to breathe, like gas. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In a manual of general principles and rules that served as a blueprint for the industry, Pinkerton admitted that the detective must at times “depart from the strict line of truth” and “resort to deception.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The death was ruled a homicide but no one was indicted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A great quietness rules in this blossoming quadrangle, the sun lies warm on the heavy grey stones, I place my hand upon them and feel the warmth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z One time, a bratty Hindi kid whose family had recently moved into the neighborhood told us that in his hometown, kite fighting had strict rules and regulations. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “And we are healthy. We are healthy hard workers. You never take healthy hard workers. It is one of the rules. Never.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Past the fence, the house stood straight and ruled as it had for two centuries—maybe more. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I turn to my rule collection and add: Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z By drawing on Agent Burger’s findings, White was able to quickly rule out many of the suspects, including Anna’s ex-husband, Oda Brown. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, one hundred years after the Declaration of Independence, the Supreme Court ruled against the Van Rensselaers.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It purports to see black and brown men not as black and brown, but simply as men—raceless men—who have failed miserably to play by the rules the rest of us follow quite naturally. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z No one had planned this arrangement, and no rules enforced it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The fierceness of men rules the fate of women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't want to change all the rules," Felix tried to explain. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They would go back to the old players and tell them that if they weren’t willing to obey the rules, they shouldn’t show up. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I am breaking the rules as we get into Justin’s car. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She fails to see that Anatole is breaking rules for her, and this will have consequences. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For now, there are rules dictating our interactions with the human world—those rules could change. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For a moment Ophie wondered if she had broken some unspoken rule about being a domestic. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I hate rules. I like to break them mostly.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z ‘You broke its rules. You inflicted pain. You killed your own centurion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There is no simple rule: one has to examine each case on its merits. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The number one rule in the ’hood is that snitching ain’t allowed. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon they were roused by the watch, and took their chief meal: cold and cheerless as a rule, for they could seldom risk the lighting of a fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Since Dallas and Florida had lived in the Boxton Creek Home longer than any of the other children there, they knew all the rules. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no reason why you can’t go back to feeling that way. There are rules here. You know them now, and you won’t break them again, will you?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Following the rules, she rolls her straw mat off the floor and leans it against the wall. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m talking last updated in 2003 ancient, so it’s hard to navigate and find all the rules. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In one early referendum on his rule in the South, Diem’s agents openly intimidated and beat up voters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A child without fear, until the Augurs came for him and plunged him into a world ruled by it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Court ruled unanimously in our favor, deciding that a condemned prisoner could challenge unconstitutional methods of execution by filing a civil rights case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One man, one vote will be the rule. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One time Max and I joined a game called untag on the blacktop—not elementary school tag, but a whole different version, with crazy-complicated rules. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If the rules didn’t apply to Gary Edwards, they certainly didn’t apply to Derric Evans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes the rules are different for black folks, baby,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was an unwritten rule that if the fruit was on the ground, it was okay to take—even if it was in someone’s yard. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1934, the US Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in the landmark decision Brown v. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z If my mother’s rule was right I was thinking pretty well. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The church was an integral part of British society, and it dictated the rules of the class-ordered society that they all lived in. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned the white people's rules, but I could not stop myself from testing them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the saloons, Democratic Irish “bosses,” many of them barkeeps, ruled as kings in their courts. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Others have turned to winning the support of those who were suspect at the beginning of their rule. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Tommen’s rule is bolstered by all of the alliances that my lord father built so carefully, but soon enough she will destroy them, every one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then the hotelkeeper would have to admit that there was no rule at all about penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z The rule is a product of the usual three confusions: English with Latin, informal style with incorrect grammar, and syntax with semantics. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Inmates appreciate a constant set of keepers, he explained; they don’t like having the rules enforced differently every day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Dad and I never smiled at each other—not really—but we were still in our magic forty-seven-minute window where the normal rules didn’t apply. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z People were still occasionally staring, still wondering, but my rules about how we spent time together had kept things from getting out of hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The visiting rules, far more lenient than other prisons’, permitted visitors almost every day, and allowed them to stay two hours. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She just took it as part of the unspoken rules of life, the same as don’t back-talk elders and clear off the sidewalk for white folks to get by. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Two Vampires had ruled Ben in their reign of terror. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Delegates from twenty different parties including the homeland governments had already agreed on the ground rules for the convention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t yet grasped the rules of this new world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics rules the domain of the very, very small: atoms and electrons and subatomic particles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She had been brought up to follow rules, to believe that the proper functioning of the world depended upon her compliance, and follow them—and believe—she did. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Oddly enough, it was not l'Hôpital who came up with the rule that bears his name. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The most important rule held that when he crossed the finish line, he had to be riding one of the original horses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Unlike Latimer, he accepted the rules, focusing his efforts on a defense of the accused rather than an attack on the system. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z David may not have the sorry-gotta-go rule down, but he’s got this one perfect: if you say something over and over and over, mg they It give in to shut you up. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was years before we realized that his unwieldy rules were designed to protect us from the evil possibilities of the mean-spirited world around us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That was another one of my mom's rules. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The rules of the ghetto always seem to be changing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Piper says, “and I just wanted to explain something else too. Helping me with the laundry isn’t against the warden’s rules.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kind of awkward discussion about ground rules. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Mary ran down the rules of the house, as she did every time Wes visited. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She had ruled out the special as soon as she’d read the menu. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Today a repeat offender had been brought before her, someone who had broken the rules before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z My dad says, “We also discussed some ground rules for this project of yours.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Not only did she know the intricacies of the sport and all of its rules, but she knew me and all of my idiosyncrasies as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “We weren’t supposed to leave a man down. That was the rule. You don’t leave a man down. You don’t leave a man to die.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Look, Brother, the school wanted the chocolates sold. And we got them sold. This w-as the payoff, that’s all. A fight. With rules. Fair and square.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was breaking every rule of successful lying. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of these rules have clear health benefits. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You are our guest. By the rule of our order, we give aid to those in need. Soon, you will be well again.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was terribly convenient for the Elders’ unencumbered rule. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I thought about the fact that English and Shannon wanted to do something but were afraid to break the rules. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Black folks aren’t born expecting segregation, prepared from day one to follow its confining rules. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it had one overwhelming advantage: allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that poor people accused of serious crimes were entitled to counsel. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rules seemed to relax during the harvest season, and besides, the way was smoothed by a contractor to whom they paid a small percentage of their pay. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking from the White House, President Eisenhower said he sent troops because “Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that that was my rule, it just seemed like it was probably discussed somewhere in the training that you might wanna refrain from using foul language around patients. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The unwritten rule that governed this process was simple: black submission to white rule in exchange for freedom—or at least the possibility of freedom—someday. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Because the rules apply to every situation except your own. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “We must follow the rules, and the rules state clearly that those people whose names come out of the Goblet of Fire are bound to compete in the tournament.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Under his rule, peace came to the land of the Danes, because none of the neighbor countries dared to fight with such a giant. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He was about to marry one of the emperor's granddaughters, and with the marriage he would be given rule of the city. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Your mother is trying to do her best for her children. She is just trapped by the rules we live by. We all are.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She knew where the boundaries lay; she knew that social reality was not reality at all, but so many rules people could not imagine breaking. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Falloppio knew the rules and was determined to play by them, for he wanted his own discovery to be duly acknowledged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hermione had become a bit more relaxed about breaking rules since Harry and Ron had saved her from the mountain troll, and she was much nicer for it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “We have a lot of rules here, but they are for your privacy and safety.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z "My older sister, the goddess of death. She and Nergal rule Kurnugi, the netherworld." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The regions to the left, she said, were ruled over by stern Rhadamanthus, also a son of Europa, who punished the wicked for their misdeeds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was necessary for Cyrus to find the Persians unhappy about the rule of the Medes, and the Medes rendered soft and effeminate after a lengthy peace. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The prison rules are that visitors must be listed on the inmate’s permission list. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe the flagpole could be a plan B when there isn’t the threat of storms, because avoiding tall metal poles is actually a good rule of thumb when lightning may be in the picture.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The two people who ruled most of his thoughts were under this one industrial roof, right alongside two-for-one soda and bargain mangoes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z His quickly pushing the bases together in a number of different ways did not reveal any other way to satisfy Chargaff’s rules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Truly, he is not mean or cross as a rule, as I say, just every now and again, when he’s been away at his club and then comes home late at night. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Most of them still hoped to wed her, bed her, and rule the Vale of Arryn by her side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Here’s the first rule in this house: no sassing. Got that?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z A principle, on the other hand, is a rule or standard. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were warnings, rules against using the energies to harm any living being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In England, abolitionists spoke up for Africans, but kings and lords still ruled. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As she started telling us the cafeteria rules, 1 looked around to see where Jack Will was sitting, but I didn’t see him on my side of the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I was simply following the rules I had laid down for myself at the beginning of the project and doing the best I could to hold each job. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people rented space in warehouses and other storage facilities, attempting to stock up, until a judge ruled that all liquor stored outside the home broke the law. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The time of the Elves is over, but our time is at hand: the world of Men, which We must rule. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Section two outlines additional rules. Number one says you cannot simply give the money away. Not to people. Not to charities.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z You can’t leave the hood, so you survive by the rules of the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Cleopatra once again had Egypt’s rule all to herself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z There was one rule about the field guide: We had to see the specimen with our own eyes to include it. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The same rule creates relative clauses that begin with a preposition and a wh-word such as the better with which to see you or It’s you of whom she’s thinking. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As a rule, however, the extra is a separate chromosome, making the number 47. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There are plenty of kids who want to play. If you do follow the rules, you’re going to have a lot of fun.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z As the apartheid regime fell, we knew that the black man was now going to rule. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z By choice I am ruled by conscience rather than the authority of priests I consider my equals. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He overhauled ethics rules governing White House employees’ interactions with lobbyists and, most important, managed to push a major economic stimulus bill through Congress, even though not a single House Republican voted in its favor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And then Archie, his eyes sparkling with triumph and malice, had explained the rules. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like an ambassador to a hostile foreign country, my Guardian ad Litem was educated, elegant, and intimidating; however, Mrs. Moss ruled her fiefdom with an iron fist. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The initial letter of a sen-tence was first capitalised in the 13 th century, but the rule was not consistently applied until the 16th. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Then she lowered her voice and said something about wanting to make sure the Grovers were ruled out as placements. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z His social worker, Allison, would have probably said something about rules or paperwork. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They protest this rule loudly and often, but their father insists that these rules will stay in place until they are eight years old, at the very least. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “A basic rule was being broken,” KGB agent Alexander Feklisov later lamented. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, my elder siblings broke with her rules, coming home bearing fruits of their own confusion, which we jokingly called their “revolution.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, there was nothing in the rules about teams.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z There were four rules for sending messages in the field: SEND, RECEIVE, ROGER, and MOVE! Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other rules, but they were refinements. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t recognize the faces, but I knew I was looking at images of the Titans who’d ruled before the gods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He tried to remember the rules of childhood games. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘Centurion of the Fifth Cohort now. Congratulations. Are there rules against centurions dating praetors?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “You’re breaking curfew. You realize that? You understand the consequences of breaking the rules here?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But my mother’s sharply differing opinion was an exception rather than the rule among tribal women. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After thirteen months of the preparatory examination, the magistrate ruled that he had found “sufficient reason” for putting us on trial in the Transvaal Supreme Court for high treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you...well, your fate will be even sadder than mine.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had never seen aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Jews are reminded that under the new rules, anyone caught outside their homes after curfew will be shot on sight!” the officer yelled. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m breaking the rules. But I don’t know what else to do. I need you three. It just feels right.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But Headmaster ruled the school like the prime minister ruled India—nobody said no to his decisions. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe her face is blurry because she's doing exactly what I like to think I would be doing: looking for an escape route rather than following the rules. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There were days when I wished I had it in me to rebel against my mother’s rules. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I am the one who broke the rule. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I was almost fourteen years old, had never handled a tennis racket in my life and knew absolutely nothing about the rules of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z New teachers don’t know the rules, so you can get away with things the old-timers would squash you for. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Aware of the existence of such a rule, I stayed away from school for something like three weeks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The routine police harassment, arbitrary searches, and widespread police intimidation of those subject to English rule helped to inspire the American Revolution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Regardless of the Crow Club rules, this took precedence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Is there a simple rule of thumb that distinguishes a group with real social authority from a group with little power at all? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Is the rule based on some crackpot theory, such as that English should emulate Latin, or that the original meaning of a word is the only correct one? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The traditions had been broken, the standards let down, all rules forgotten. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And I couldn’t even ask because I would be breaking my own rule about not talking about the accident. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I decided that the only way my attackers could claim victory over me was if I let fear rule my life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Not a single one. So, technically, we’re not breaking the rules.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They behaved as though it were an awful sin to overlook even one of those unspoken rules and step out of “their place,” to cross some invisible line. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all of the new procedural rules and formal protections, the law does not address the single most serious problem associated with drug forfeiture laws: the profit motive in drug-law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I arrange the cushions back on the sofa even though the Doctorita hasn’t included No cushion forts as one of the rules. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the land is dry, having been neglected during the Khmer Rouge rule, and produces hardly any fruit. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew them just the way I’d known the old rules. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Georgie and I hid in the shadows, yearning to tell our parents where we were and what had happened, but in those days, the rules held us fast. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Look, I didn’t make up the rules here,” Reverend Hollister was saying to Coach Turner once Candice, Coach Hicks, and Mr. Smith reached the bottom of the bleachers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The officer knew, as a rule, when people were telling the truth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "So here I am between these two drunk beasts who look crazy enough to head-butt me, or bite me, or something wild like that. The kinda dudes who don't play by no rules." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Euwe continued to talk and mentioned that the rules would have to be changed for future World Championships, in large part because of Bobby Fischer, who’d brought so much attention to the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Nicodemus? But can she? I mean, how about the rules? What about the Plan?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Her rule is that we just have to check in with her every half hour or so. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Powell’s radio voice was tense in Donovan’s ear: “Now, look, let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics—the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot’s positronic brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Sometimes he forgets the rule about chewing with his mouth closed or he drinks from someone else’s soda. Or —” “They live next door, Catherine.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z This rule was unwritten but hard and fast. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s just made that rule up,” Harry muttered angrily as Snape limped away. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Woolf weighed a lot more than the imposts assigned to most of these horses, but somehow he was able to circumvent the rule requiring riders to be within five pounds of the assignment. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z How did they function normally in a world totally ruled by signs? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The big events in Jesus’ life were marked with reference to the moon, while everyday life was ruled by the sun. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It took the arrival of two nuns in 1998 to bring some order and rules to the padre’s operations. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “You stop breaking the rules or I’m going straight downstairs.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The child's disappearance was ruled a drowning, but everyone whispered about Nok's father behind his back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It’s the best he can do, and besides, interrupting Ms. Dale to ask if it’s okay to break the rules doesn’t seem like something she would be interested in right now. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z You still have to submit to the rules of Islam, but it’s sure nice to be family. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then she goes over all the rules again and insists that we sit down for 10 minutes and think about it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The Alexandria of Hypatia’s time—by then long under Roman rule—was a city under grave strain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And Mr. Edwards made it an unvarying rule not to believe anything his girls said at any time, beyond what they had for breakfast, and they sometimes lied about that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Here’s the “z before e” rule at work. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was I unclear about the rules or the consequences?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The fact that many prescriptive rules are worth keeping does not mean that every pet peeve, bit of grammatical folklore, or dimly remembered lesson from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom is worth keeping. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The Minerwa factory, says Herr Braun, our director, sweating in his suit while standing on a crate, is a system of rules and regulations, where we, the workers, will be valued. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Kemp hadn’t the time in, but he was learning the basic rule. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Other types of cancer may in time be found to have a relatively short latent period, also, but at present leukemia seems to be the exception to the general rule of extremely slow development. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Probably around the same number of people think the Earth is flat as think race consciousness should be the rule in perpetuity, rather than the exception. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Certainly, it hadn’t been from the guardians: they never mentioned the Gallery, and there was an unspoken rule that we should never even raise the subject in their presence. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a minor rule, rather like rudeness, punishable only by gentle chastisement. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z One of her young hostages brought her morning meal, a plump shy girl named Mezzara, whose father ruled the pyramid of Merreq, and Dany gave her a happy hug and thanked her with a kiss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z First they discovered bird droppings in their detector and checked for other possible malfunctions, but soon ruled these out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When there’s a baby in the house, time stretches and contracts, abiding by none of the regular rules. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z During the day racial tensions rule the streets, at night gunshots are heard from drive-by shootings, and twenty-four hours a day, the gangs and drug dealers control the block, trying to hold down their territory. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Okay, so now that you know about the rules, then I can tell you that I went from being a small target in Wellpinit to being a larger target in Reardan. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The humor arises entirely out of how steadfastly the participants adhere to the rule that no suggestion can be denied. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z "I have to leave. The new warden says it's the rule." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “I’m sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “There’s no rule that says you have to stay in the place that you’re born,” she said. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The first real clue to the nature of Venus came from work with a prism made of glass or a flat surface, called a diffraction grating, covered with fine, regularly spaced, ruled lines. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody knew why they were not allowed to touch this tree, but since the tree belonged to this man, they accepted the rule. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z One part of the rule is correct: it’s odd to use that with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes, that cost a thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As a rule, I didn’t like pink and purple, but the color made my red hair pop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He is not one for breaking rules, as it violates his army training. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z According to the rules of Mensa France, the test instructions were delivered in French, but I understood every word. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In English, there are exceptions to every rule. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, gangs would prove much better at making mayhem than money. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “These rules and regulations don’t make any sense to me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The red sky made her dread the rules of this next territory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute—life or truth or beauty—of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, you might’ve noticed I’m not good at following rules. I’m coming back here with my dragon, and we’ll spring you. Take you wherever you want to go. It’s only fair.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I see what McGona-gall meant... you really are a natural. I’m just going to teach you the rules this evening, then you’ll be joining team practice three times a week.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Such examples of path dependency are the rule and not the exception. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If they followed the rules she laid down, followed them exactly, Kate would take care of them and protect them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now then,” said Stuart in a fierce voice, “hold on, my good people, while your Chairman consults the book of rules!” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “Not exactly. Maybe it would defeat their purpose. They win when you respond the way they expect you to. Change the rules of the game, girl, and they might not like it so much.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If it always felt this way to break rules and get caught, I was better off being good. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He declared that the two would rule Egypt together, as their father’s will decreed. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “My point is that we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He became king in Beowulf's stead, and ruled wisely and well to the end of his days. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z My father said they didn’t have rules for dealing with the Chinese wife of a Caucasian citizen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We talk about “epidemics of violence” or crime waves, but it’s not clear that we really believe that crime follows the same rules of epidemics as, say, Hush Puppies did, or Paul Revere’s ride. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That's when we discover who really rules Carver Independent School—one burly P.E. teacher and one elderly drama teacher. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "I'm sure your group members will be happy to see you, especially since I've adjusted the rules." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The federal government agreed to withdraw its occupation troops from the South, allowing the restoration of white rule. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "A woman can rule as wisely as a man," Catelyn said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As Birmingham grew increasingly violent in the 1960s, Daddy’s list of nonnegotiable rules grew longer from year to year. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were no formal conferences or rules or even basic principles of organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That was practically Mom’s favorite rule of science, and whenever she tried to work through a Big Question, she always started by making a list of knowns. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was no “children should be seen and not heard” rule, as was common in Victorian households. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Winnie had never had a meal that way before and she watched them carefully at first, to see what rules there might be that she did not know about. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you talk this way to anyone else? You leave all the rule breaking to me. You like it that way.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “No. Actually they are good to eat—the Romans liked them a great deal—but people avoid them as a rule because they are so easily confused with their evil twin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “We still have rules, even if Mother isn’t here to enforce them. Cats eat on the floor.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Half the 'prentices on Reeking Lane could rule better than this king of yours." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It occurred to Claire that she could check on the rules and answer her own question about whether she could apply for a spouse. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Geyer met with the lead police inspector and learned that a physician who had just examined the child’s skeleton had ruled it to be that of a little girl. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Violation of these special rules can land someone right back in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “When you’re in the dorm, you will treat it just like you are in this house. All the same rules apply. Do you understand?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The chapter on dead rules has more on that one, and on how the myth got started. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed discipline and rules were a must for children, especially young boys—and especially those growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The rules regarding admissible evidence are more lenient, allowing hearsay, or rumors. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That’s the only good reason I can think of for this next exception to the usual rules on possessives. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hands pushed him into the center of the ring and the referee was saying, ". . . three rounds of two minutes each . . . you know the amateur rules . . . break clean . . . shake, boys, and come out fighting." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only after the salesman had wrapped it that she’d remembered the rule about giving paper on the first anniversary. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The use of commas cannot be learned by rule.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z All of Korea had been ruled by Imperial Japan since 1910. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There’s a part of me that is glad she has given in, despite the awfulness of Balekin, the inevitable horror of his rule. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z From the Cyclops’ island they came to the country of the Winds, ruled over by King Aeolus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My dirty servant’s garb would rule out identification at a distance, and he’d never be close enough to see my face. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The little ones got rambunctious while the older ones moped, complaining about the new rules in voices just loud enough to be overheard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population ruled from a distant capital. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The general rule was that the direct appeal had to be completed before a postconviction collateral appeal under Rule 32 could be initiated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Several times a day she would say, “Let’s read our rules.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Dingane, the half brother of Shaka, then ruled the most powerful African state that ever existed south of the Limpopo River. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "These rules are to be adhered to and followed at all times. They have served your sisters and will serve you well," she says at last. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Turning the job discrimination they experienced on its head, Irish business owners lived by the rule “Only Irish Need Apply.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I am, as a rule, a member of the Clean Plate Club. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then Bones went back to the room and told the teacher he had really gotten it this time and he promised to be a good boy and not break any rules. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you crazy? My mother will kill us. You know her rules.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You know last Saturday when Chika and Bose brought their children, I was just thinking that Nigerians here really forgive so much from their children because they have foreign accents. The rules are different.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z While there was still a king they were in name his subjects, but they were, in fact, ruled by their own chieftains and meddled not at all with events in the world outside. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There is not, technically, a rule against paying a stripper to dance in front of the school. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The old rules had changed, fragmented, broken into bits. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Then right away she started making up new rules and trying to take control of me and Grandma and the house. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a lamp close and wrote in the ruled accounts book, his steel nib skritching on the page. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He was tested, tempered, and tried before he was deemed fit to rule. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If you are constantly reminded of your lowly position in the social hierarchy, whether by individual managers or by a plethora of impersonal rules, you begin to accept that unfortunate status. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “They apply to everyone in the class. I make no exceptions. So if you work by these rules and keep your mind on your studies, then you and I will not have any problems.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, you stupid, if there’s a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way; fool, fool, back to the beginning was the rule.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even so, I was desperate to find out where the many, many rules that they controlled us with came from. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The large black woman violated all the unwritten rules that, to C.P.'s way of thinking, constituted the beloved Southern way of life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t they get to break the rules? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now, there was a rule in my school which gave teachers authority to expel a pupil who was absent from school for over a month without a solid reason. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, this land belonged to the fish before it belonged to us. I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp. He will come to rule again!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then let us check that we know the rules of what modern grammarians call “possessive determiners” and “possessive pronouns” - none of which requires an apostrophe. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z We’re always quiet before school, because when Mom works doubles, the number-one rule of the morning is not to wake her up. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Dad did know all the rules about visas and work permits and green cards, because when students and researchers come to the university from foreign countries, they need one or another of them. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one devised this grammar, and no one wrote down its rules, but they came to be generally understood for the simple reason that they were based on the paradigm case of geographical discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After my previous experience on the horns I had familiarized myself with the Rerum Codex, the University’s official rules. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The older ones he would beat almost savagely if they broke any of his rules—and he had so many rules it was hard to know them all. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules governing what colors a house could be painted, for example. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "I’d love to, son, but I can’t. The company I work for has a strict rule against picking up hitchhikers. It could get me canned." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Because they thought the rules and the laws and the Word of God would save them from any more pain. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The only rule is that if you throw a party in front of somebody’s house, they get to come and share your alcohol. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Didn’t he say that Africans are not ready to rule themselves in Rhodesia? If the British tell him to call himself a castrated monkey, he will.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Park doesn’t have the same rules about clothing as my mom. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z This book is about my experiences as a black child growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1940s and '50s under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppressors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Whenever I thought a rule wasn’t logical, I’d find my way around it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Shadow was puzzled to realize that he was far more concerned with breaking the rules by climbing onto the Carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon’s bank robbery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The great exception to this rule of the recent melting pot is the world’s most populous nation, China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But these rules had little to do with the way we lived at home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I made it my rule never to go after more than I needed to live on. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Obey the Lord and his laws, and the prioress and her rule, and your every need will be fulfilled, your every fear assuaged,” Mother Ermentrude’s voice intones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Lara assures everyone that she’s seen the rules on her father’s desk and that it’s basically a massive obstacle course with little stations where we have to answer supernatural trivia questions. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Remarkably, the overwhelming majority of people branded criminals and felons struggle mightily to play by the rules and to succeed in a society seemingly hell-bent on excluding them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z More than enough to stamp her as unfit to rule. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mr. McCabe made a rule for Callum and me: except when we were in class together, we couldn’t be within twenty feet of each other. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And they are certainly not the stipulations of some governing body, like the rules of Major League Baseball. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If there’s one thing I’d figured out about having a family crisis like ours, it’s that the old rules no longer applied — for example, I had probably gone four months without eating a single vegetable. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After the guests had gone, Mother would get us together and tell us that while family rules were important, it was even more important to see that guests weren’t made uncomfortable. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an exception to this rule of possibility, which is why I’m grateful for search keys. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be rude, but you see, it’s the rule that the king has to know things first.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The garden provided many excuses for breaking that particular rule. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I gotta get comfortable again in another house with different food and clothes and rules and stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He loved her and would not betray her; but that was only a fact, known as he knew the rules of arithmetic. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They each needed to vote, to speak out, to challenge the rules of crowned kings and royal princes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As the junta continued to rule with an iron fist, Farmer became increasingly frustrated and angry. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In contrast, Bobby was strictly observant of this rule and said “j’adoube” first whenever he touched a piece to straighten it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Breaking his own privacy rules, Bobby even included a PO box number that he could be written to in care of so that the reader could order “additional copies.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No way to call this a bending of the rules. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z After each man, she updates her relative ranking of her suitors and wonders what rule she should follow in order to maximize her chances of choosing the best of her projected N suitors. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We were seated around our little circular table in the kitchen when my phone started singing, but I wasn’t allowed to check it because we have a strict no-phones- during-dinner rule. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z There was a rule at Lark Creek, more important than anything Mr. Turner made up and fussed about. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Even the youngest babies knew about the Don't Talk to People rule. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Well, there are always exceptions to the rule, I suppose.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z TOMBSTONE: Never use who when the rules call for whom. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me? Trust me. I have nothing to do with making the rules.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z No one had told us the rules, I was sure of that. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z There was talk about changing the rule and giving the bicycles at an earlier age. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be the first time she ignored the rules and followed her heart. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Because it only now occurs to me that the rule might apply to me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z "The boy is utterly without discipline. He will never be strong enough to rule unless he is taken away from his mother for a time." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In school, we had to wear our hair very short, per the rules. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Lily,” Mother reminded her, smiling, “you know the rules.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Then another message appears: I got your rules for wandering and I have an addition: We don’t travel in bad weather. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Sam, you know the rules of this house.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Later, some people said they’d thought she was going to give us a big telling-off; others that she was about to announce a new rule on how we played rounders. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Catholic school is similar to apartheid in that it’s ruthlessly authoritarian, and its authority rests on a bunch of rules that don’t make any sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Believing fundamentally in the right of a plant or a virus to rule the earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She rules the activity lounge, which is exactly like the art room I had when I was in kindergarten. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I was a little embarrassed because she thought I was just joking, but this time I was really going to be breaking the rules. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z During the next four centuries its realm steadily expanded until it ruled directly over much of central Mexico and indirectly, through puppet governments, as far south as Guatemala. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I repeated my rules: “Not till after two, all right, man? The close dugout.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Better to steer clear of an occasion governed by a rule which would be so easy to break. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Please understand, it is your own government, not ours. We are simply advising you. It’s the rule.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A republic armed with its own citizens is less likely to come under the rule of one of its citizens than a city armed with foreign soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Though Felix did not need any more rules in his life. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z "When you knew me last," said the woman in the scarlet kirtle, "I ruled with my sisters in Carnadine, before it was lost." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I had already been given a set of rules to follow that assured me, at the very least, that I would somehow get into heaven. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Actually in the Shire in Bilbo’s days it was, as a rule, only the richest and the poorest Hobbits that maintained the old custom. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But because they are flexible enough to allow plenty of interesting but easy-to-grasp music, the rules are still widely used, particularly in popular music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Principalities are either hereditary, in which instance the family of the prince has ruled for generations, or they are new. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Different areas were ruled by different families, much like the kingdoms of medieval Europe. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The simple rule I had to remember was to always close one gate before opening the other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He should have sat down with us and explained his stupid rules. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z His strict rules were designed as an invisible form of protection for us, and in many ways they reflected Birmingham’s segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The press briefing room in the West Wing is ruled too impersonal, so they’ve called the press pool to the Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t make the rules, ma’am, I just enforce ’em.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “According to Dauntless rules,” Four says, “one of you could also concede.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They had been happy, for a time, before the rules found them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then we play two-square and make up our own rules like No Bounce, Around the Back, and Sky Ball. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “Don’t scratch, miss, unless you want big ugly scars. That’s rule one with chicken pox: break a blister and leave a pit. You’ll resemble Swiss cheese in no time.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I hesitated, worried what Luma would think, whether my helping Mandela round up his teammates might look like I was helping them break the rules. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “But the rules are for the good of all the girls. We can’t make any exceptions.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Probably, all our rules are rule number one. We can get a little hard-core.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “It’s not a rule you can break. It’s a law like this one...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She had all the rules printed out on a little white note card. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We did not consider ourselves poor or deprived, or depressed, for the rules of the outside world seemed meaningless to us as children. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It breaks all the rules Du Barry taught us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So I took my shoes off, the Angel family rule, and padded quietly down the hall. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z She issued orders and her rule was law. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A prince who recovered from catastrophic injuries, who ruled from within a blur of light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Going by the unspoken rules of Skiz, she must now fight until she loses a round— until her opponent throws her to the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z There was a Scyld, once, who ruled the Danes; and other men ruled after him, that much was true. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He was at the moment, she told them, a virtual prisoner on an island ruled over by the nymph Calypso, who loved him and planned never to let him go. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But still, for Twelves, though they had begun their adult training, there were the endless lists of rules to be memorized and the newest technology to be mastered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z His own rules for guarding me, handling me, taking care of me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At midnight, while we were sleeping, India became independent from British rule. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had a face like a dinner roll and blancmange-colored skin, and ruled by wheedling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That was pretty' much the only rule we had. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "The defendant's motion to change venue is granted," the judge ruled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Though I follow the rules and routines of convent life, Angelina will not allow me to abstain from meat, as the sisters do. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was life reduced to a set of rules, an existential life, a life clarified by the eyes of fathers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in the US Army now, bound by the rules of the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “They’ve changed the rules around a little bit since last time. There are five judges this year.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Nehemia, who might someday pose a threat to the King of Adarlan’s rule over her home country when she ascended to the throne. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “What are the rules? And this time, I expect a straight answer.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z ‘But the rules they is making do not suit the little piggy-wiggies. Am I right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If chance is ruled out and there are no other explanations, ESP will be demonstrated. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you done something bad today on account of the terrible heat? Have you broken the rules? Please tell us you have.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Rodents do not speak to princesses. We will not have this becoming a topsy-turvy wrong-headed world. There are rules. Scat. Get lost, before my common sense returns and I have you killed. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “This is what opens the decision rule to criticism,” Reilly says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was the judge who collected the evidence, applied the rules and reached a verdict. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is true that descriptive and prescriptive rules are different kinds of things and that descriptive and prescriptive grammarians are engaged in different kinds of activities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But three generations of Shaker reverence for order and rules and decorum would stay with Elena, too, and she would never quite be able to bring those two ideas into balance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the freedom of the past few days had pushed this rule far from Ophie’s mind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I even made up rules for the gang. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z One time he told her about Alaric’s treasure, that disappeared long ago when Rome ruled the world and America wasn’t even discovered. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z For writing exercises, students were instructed to explain how they had failed to work hard and follow rules. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I just wondered if they were really planning to make us enforce the rules when nobody else did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven’t figured ’em out yet,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z From what I could see, there simply was no commitment to the rule of law, no accountability, and little shame. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “There are a few rules for living here,” Uncle Carlos says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z After more than three centuries of rule, the white minority was conceding defeat and turning over power to the black majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Belmont rules stated that any workout in daylight after the last race had to be approved, Smith had to consult the stewards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “But... I broke the rules for good reasons. Because of music. And because of love.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Coach West is really serious about her safety rules. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Trevor and Amy were in love. We all knew the rules. No contact, six feet apart. And I”—she points to herself—“I let them break the rules because I wanted them to be happy.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z "Lord Eddard Stark is herein named Protector of the Realm, to rule as regent until the heir comes of age." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her family—Jonas among them—had talked about the possible reasons for rule- breaking, and the need for understanding and patience, until Lily’s fist had relaxed and her anger was gone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It's technically against the rules to train tributes before they reach the Capitol but it happens every year. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It seemed obvious to him that the Permian system was prejudiced against him—it had rules for blacks and then rules for everybody else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court ruled these tenants could be held civilly liable for the nonviolent behavior of their children and caregivers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There are written-down school rules like Dad is talking about, and there are rules we just live with without even asking ourselves why. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But I can’t think of any good reason to hold to that rule now. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The city impressed him, he said later, which was surprising because as a rule nothing impressed him, nothing moved him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I told her I had ruled out Sabbatini, Schmidt and Mr. Sager. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In short, the chapter explains how the legal rules that structure the system guarantee discriminatory results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew: Don’t open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who broke the rules to go to Mr. P’s no longer bothered with her. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She had wanted to throw away all the rules and eat up the world. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They hadn't told me the rules, I knew, but the feeling persisted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It's like no rules apply, and that makes everything real edgy, if you know what I mean, like let's have a blast and who cares what happens. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “How about a deal? You keep quiet about what you saw here today, and I’ll bend the rules and let you in even though you aren’t officially in the book.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They said that the committee members would become Elders by the time the rule change was made. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Mine don’t fit right anyway, since in the spirit of waste-not-want-not that rules 13, I was issued a pair someone had outgrown. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The situation in Algeria was the closest model to our own in that the rebels faced a large white settler community that ruled the indigenous majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You had to play by his rules and, like him, steal by signing the right papers. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He was also, strange as it is to say, a refreshing sort of female presence in a place where macho was the rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the job, let a girl be disobedient to the rules, and Mr. Edwards personally stripped her, gagged her, and horsewhipped her within an inch of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For the next four years they would continue to defend him from the rivalries and rules of academia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “They weren’t supposed to fall in love, you know, but they always did like breaking the rules.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “And the other rule, we start with dessert.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Turtle forgot the rules of the court and hurried to her mother. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “As a general rule,” he said, “men are in a more receptive mood for pointers when working with familiar teammates.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He ruled that the demonstrators had a legal and constitutional right to carry out that march, and that state and local officials were forbidden to interfere. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z How proud she was of breaking her rules for once. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z How had this small, damaged...child...ruled them for so long? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But of course, like all rules, there was one time—and one time only—that I broke it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Too many Europeans ignored his rules and smuggled in English goods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So she brooded through the bitter days of the long years that followed, while Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled the land. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were times when I wished for new rules that DID apply — like maybe,“Take a vitamin every day so you don’t get scurvy.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a rule with me, that a person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z And they only have regular family rules: bio snacks right before supper. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I'd shouted back that I did worship Gandhi, because he was a powerful historical figure who helped free India from British rule. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It only took me about fifteen minutes to figure out the “rules” of the game and to sort out how the scoring system worked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Though the brief exchange over the Mecklenburg Declaration touched on these significant differences of opinion, the diplomatic imperatives of the dialogue ruled out full disclosure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It’s just one of the rules of the community. We learn in a pool. When we’re five.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Just the basic standards of not sounding like a braying donkey and not smelling like a pair of cursed sneakers ruled out half the guys in her class. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And whereas he could have left a tributary king to rule that kingdom, Louis replaced him, establishing one there who could, in turn, drive Louis out. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I missed the little things; curfews and rules were nonexistent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z French rule in Vietnam would deny power to the Communists. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Sorry, Yasmeen. That’s where your sidewalk ends. You broke the rules. You are out of the game. Your library card will be placed in the discard bowl and you will be going home.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z They are rewarded in cash—through drug forfeiture laws and federal grant programs—for rounding up as many people as possible, and they operate unconstrained by constitutional rules of procedure that once were considered inviolate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And he, the King of Gods and Men, had sworn to her that Aeneas should be the ancestor of a race who would some day rule the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, my family had always ignored the Easter celebrated by our non-Orthodox friends and neighbors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A gifted French-horn player, as a teen he was a member of the American University Symphony but quit, according to Walt, after objecting to rules imposed by a high school band leader. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That we pretended to be rustics not ruled by custom but free to choose our love? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He told of Roman legions who had come to Britain centuries before, and of Saxon and Danish kings who in turn had ruled their land. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z But if Zola is an angel, then maybe she knows where the heaven is and where the angels are meeting, and maybe she knows what the rules are. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Was there a common set of rules, he wondered, that governed the facial expressions that human beings made? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As a rule, I did not give my creations to people face-to-face. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “I mean that if disqualification was part of the rules, I’d miss having you around.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Barred by law from invoking race explicitly, those committed to racial hierarchy were forced to search for new means of achieving their goals according to the new rules of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Do they know that Dr. Throckmorton wrote up some new rules?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z She broke rules all the time, and everyone went to the ruins once a year on school trips. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Pashtun kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Charges against Oldham's imperious rule ranged widely, from unfair administrative procedures to threats and intimidation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When I was first banned I abided by the rules and regulations of my persecutors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Negroes might not be welcome at the white theater, but I didn’t think there was a rule against whites going to the Negro theater. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the rules don't really matter to this crew. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Constance writes in response, ‘Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don’t give two mules for rules!’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z According to the traditional rule, the choice depends on which of two kinds of relative clause the word is introducing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This tends to change the rules for using and developing melodies, so the terms used to talk about contrapuntal melodies are different, too. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Therefore, having made himself hated, and since to this hatred was added contempt for his old age, Pertinax came to ruin at the very outset of his rule. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Luma counted the episode as a hard lesson, and vowed not to let any player, no matter how talented, get away with breaking team rules. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Then white rule used that animosity to divide and conquer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He made a fortune in sea traffic among those distant races, but while he did so, the foul crime was planned and carried out in Argos by Aigisthos, who ruled over golden Mykenai seven years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He is following Dad’s rule of offering 20 percent less than what they offer. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The anticipation has ruled his life, and now, finally, the wait is over. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And I got caught only because they broke their own rules. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She never had to deal with nothing like it, and there ain't no rule book for white people to know how to work with black hair. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z After learning about the challenge, the school librarian assembled a cart of books related to ciphers and codes and made a temporary “no checkout” rule for them, to ensure they stayed available for everyone’s use. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Supreme Court had ruled that the place where Roan had been murdered was indeed on Indian lands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I know you said that the rule was that we couldn’t talk about the accident. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z A world that follows the rules of epidemics is a very different place from the world we think we live in now. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She faced the stove, never needing to actually see them to know they were breaking some rule or another. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Living black carried with it certain rules, and there were dire consequences if those rules were broken. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Usually, coaches had to care a lick about the game and know its rules. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Now Massasoit was visiting a group of British with the intent of changing the rules. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What if instead of that, someone simply told us they were changing the rules, and that we couldn’t go there anymore, no matter what we wanted? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z By all the rules of normal magic, meanwhile, she ought not to be able to see Hermione and him at all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her decision did not please him, she could see, but if she gelded every man who ever forced a bedslave, she would soon rule a city of eunuchs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Clearly a breach of the Don’t Talk to People rule. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Schmid recalled later that “for a second, I didn’t know what to do. Then I stopped Spassky’s clock, breaking the rules. But somehow I had to get that incredible situation under control.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We were going to follow the rules, and we were going to have our way. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mandela was still mad that his friend Prince wasn’t on the team because of the hair rule, which he thought was stupid. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Everybody was content at the way he ruled. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In 1947, India became the first British colony since the United States to break free from foreign rule. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I was used to problems and different rules for colored and white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost never is inductive reasoning taught or are mathematical phenomena studied with an eye toward guessing the relevant properties and rules. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that he’d previously lied about their coupling, and hadn’t done the spiritual work to put it behind him, ruled out his participation in the mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Perhaps not, but it is of great consequence whether Luxa does. Or so it will be in some five years when she comes of age to rule,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Whether there were rules about first-year students living in apartments. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Jim Crow, as oppressive as it was, offered a measure of security for blacks who were willing to play by its rules. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The court frequently complained about being forced to order new trials or grant relief, but nonetheless ruled in our favor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Given the inheritance rules for mitochondrial DNA, the conclusion that Indians and Siberians share common ancestry seems, to geneticists, inescapable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is the business of rams to be rams and of goats to be goats, the business of shapers to sing and of kings to rule. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Learning from Fast Mistakes In the past, Rome had appointed its own generals and representatives to rule newly acquired territories. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Her husband had never sent an email in his life, but she couldn’t rule it out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z No rule says I have to weigh in on the Tariq Johnson story; I brought this on myself. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To alleviate this, the Ptolemies legitimized their power by adopting the trappings of old-time pharaonic rule. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The standard question rule in English converts You are seeing what? into What are you seeing? and hence You are looking at what? into What are you looking at? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z "The kingdom of Orléans is ruled by queens; the crown is passed down through the women of your family. Queens ensure the proper governance of the kingdom and maintenance of its well-being." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z No explanation based upon a hard and fast rule of conduct can be given. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I argued two cases at the Mississippi Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the convictions and sentences of young children were illegal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And best of all, Hannah, in her black slip dress, combat boots, and no makeup, isn’t breaking a single rule. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A creeping gloom unfurled in her chest, the same kind of bleak feeling she got when she’d broken a rule and knew her mama was fixing to be cross with her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I had made it a rule to talk as little as possible at first. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In his announcement of the “One Strike and You’re Out” Initiative, Clinton explained: “From now on, the rule for residents who commit crime and peddle drugs should be one strike and you’re out.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Reek had learned the rules, as his hands and feet could testify, but that one time he had forgotten and tried to end the pain himself, with his teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No one expected a relatively successful and independent man like Walter to follow every rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My only consolation was knowing that someday I’d be free of all their stupid rules and worries. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z And anyway, the new rules weren’t so bad. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Illapa ruled in the sky with a club in one hand and a sling in the other. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I remember feeling furious at Polly for so stupidly breaking the unwritten rule, but at the same time, being terribly excited about what answer Miss Lucy might give. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The pharaohs of Egypt had a long-standing program to educate their daughters to prepare them to rule, and this was one of the traditions that the Ptolemies followed, too. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z If I marry Hizdahr before the sun comes up, will all these armies melt away like morning dew and let me rule in peace? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was talking about putting nail polish on a runner in your hose, but I think the same rule applies here.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A stinging editorial in the school newspaper, the Permian Press, applauded a new rule prohibiting Pepettes from placing candy in players’ lockers every Friday. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Another rule is you cannot stay all day. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z His stay was brief and not at all businesslike, but who are we to question the motives of these giants of commerce whose whims rule the course of our nation. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If inmates preferred to live mainly by the rules, I asked, then why did they give new officers like me, who were trying to enforce them, such a hard time? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that there was any rule against walking home by an unusual route, but it was enough to draw attention to you if the Thought Police heard about it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Of course, there are exceptions to the name rule. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then he remembered that such rules didn’t apply to him anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They went so far as to vote against it, but the majority ruled. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Some of the rules, I knew, came from the Quran, but some, like the sleepover rule, were simply because Abu was a protective father. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “You touched the pink. According to the rules, that’s six points to me.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “In motocross racing, it’s against the rules to get off your bike. I think he cheated.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “If the tree was that big, it probably was a huge violation of association rules—and believe me, my family knows about that, because everything we do is a violation.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It is a serious and solemn ceremony, and as a rule on formal occasions everyone skaals everyone else round the table once. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z People like my mom even break rules to stay in the country. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The C.D.C. also temporarily revoked the licenses of three companies, Hazleton Research Products, the Charles River Primates Corporation, and Worldwide Primates, charging these companies with violations of quarantine rules. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The region was ruled by the Duke of Florence, Cosimo de’ Medici, who had also been crowned Duke of Tuscany by the Pope in 1570 for his part in successful military campaigns against the Moors. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As a rule, I don’t do slumber parties, unless you count spending the night at El’s. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Some of the rules had a double dose of Nan and only a sprinkle of me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But, in the sixth grade, I broke my own rule. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Carter, Judge Davis ruled, would stay in the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The only rule was that we had to come home when the streetlights went on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They screamed and yelled during recess, when there were no rules; they had fist- fights. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Children to raise, lands to rule, a woman to love? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “How can I excel at a game when you refuse to tell me the rules?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shin, on the few days when he did not have to work on the farm or in the factory, had rarely taken advantage of camp rules that allowed him to visit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So yes, okay, here was another exception to the rules: Angelo made the pate. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Pine Mountain’s rules did not allow O-Hall boys to attend such events. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Home is the place with the most rules. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That was kind of the rule around here. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Opening objects in a parked vehicle was so incredibly illegal that I realized he wasn't paying any attention to the rules, so saying something about it would be pointless. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And, at any rate, one of the few rules the Executives seemed willing to admit to was that students were not allowed in one another’s rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “No, there’s no rule against it. And I did have a spouse. You’re forgetting how old I am, Jonas. My former spouse lives now with the Childless Adults.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Johnson was a member of a three-judge panel that had ruled bus segregation laws unconstitutional. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The second principle is that backshifting is not mandatory, which means that violating the sequence-of-tense rules and keeping the reported content in the present tense is not always an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I keep forgetting that the number-one rule of spying is don’t yell. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Of course I ruled out the jolly sissies who sometimes stayed at our house and cooked whopping eight-course dinners while the perspiration made paths down their made-up faces. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There really should be a rule against having to go to :re is absolutely no way you can concentrate. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I don’t know the rules of the game, but there are so many cute boys that I don’t even care to pay attention to the ball or the score. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z So many lawyers were involved that they all couldn’t fit in the courtroom, and Ogden finally ruled that two were to be chosen to represent all the rest. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I guess you can figure out the rules. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Good work, mice, strengthen my gates. I wouldn’t want to rule a fortress with broken doors.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I feel it here. You know, like the rules.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z His head moved back and forth as if he were watching an invisible game, and desperately trying to understand its rules. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We have taken the one-drop rules of Dreamers and flipped them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I am not sure of divorce rules in general; here in Osnoriner there is divorce, but no remarriage after either divorce or the partner’s death: one can only vow kemmering once. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The samples were packaged and shipped to a forensics laboratory in Germany for testing; the Icelandic DNA laboratory was ruled out to avoid any possibility of compromise or conflict. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then the state high-school athletic association did exactly what it said it was going to do and ruled that Coach Gainer’s boys were not eligible to play in the state-championship game. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Or over the rush of breaking the rules? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The tribe was happy under the wise rule of its youngest-ever Queen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “You know the rules, Ibtihaj,” my mother said, echoing my father’s words from just a moment earlier. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They believed in rules, and their rules were posted on doorways and in hallways and above each child’s bed. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z They preferred that the country descend into civil war rather than have majority rule by peaceful means. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So she offered us a challenge to spend over five million dollars in a month, but we couldn’t tell anyone, and there were about a hundred other rules.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Normally I’m not one to bend the rules, but how can I turn away a child with such splendid taste in clothing? However unintentional.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Probationers and parolees are at increased risk of arrest because their lives are governed by additional rules that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Why do you think the visitors didn’t obey the rules?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Did they give you some rule about this?” she said, dismissing all the fuss with a wave of her hand. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If he had any doubts that they would abide by her rules, he wouldn’t let them try out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The world, the real one, was civilization secured and ruled by savage means. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Well, technically, I guess it’s Fred’s. I don’t, you know, chase rubber balls. Not as a rule.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I fill her in on Mama’s rules about tap water and street food, and how we managed to avoid getting sick the whole time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “That’s true. But remember, until they changed the rules, I could only hope to get one of you out of there alive,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z These rules have also guaranteed racially discriminatory results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I hope that he's watching the traffic and the rules of the road. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He saw himself as a citizen of the Net, a separate nation with rules, boundaries, and traditions of its own. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was cool to see an adult man not caring about society’s artificial rules for masculinity, though. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It seemed obvious that they were going around the law, or at least defying some rule or regulation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z From the first day of his rule Arcadio revealed his predilection for decrees. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z This type of behavior was the rule rather than the exception. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z New Rome was all about tradition and legacies; the rules didn’t change easily. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If he could keep Oak in check, he might rule over Faerie forever. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s just the excitement of breaking the rules. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z But five minutes later he broke a rule, and of course he couldn’t help it because they said his brother who worked in the meat market had brought Bones up on raw meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the debriefing by Lieutenant Wilkin, the focus was on how chaotic it was, how so many of the rules weren’t respected. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Benevolent encounters have not been the rule in human history, where transcultural contacts have been direct and physical, quite different from the receipt of a radio signal, a contact as light as a kiss. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the outset, I set the ground rules for our discussions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z War, famine, and death become the rule of the planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There are other enterprises where our ability to change the rules is constrained by factors over which we have no control. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “If you don’t follow the rules, you’re off the team,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z If a general rule of inheritance lurked behind the data, it was that human features were distributed in continuous curves, and continuous variations reproduced continuous variations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He has to know—I can't be held down by his rules, his world. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The fourth rule in section two is the 'No List.’ Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Muttering something about Gross being Jewish, Bobby went on to change the rules of his variation to make it different from Gross’s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A whole mess of rules that I was pretty sure nobody paid any mind to except maybe Howard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But tonight loads of kids were walking to the village hall with their parents too, so that rule didn't apply. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z For surely no one except Grete would ever trust themselves to enter a room in which Gregor ruled the empty walls all by himself. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z In my old house your grandparents ruled with the fearsome rod. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As far as I could tell, Rachel’s only rule about music was that no two songs on her iPod could sound the same, and they all had to be strange. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “But it’s not part of the rules,” he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Any lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law was supposed to be heard by a panel of three judges in a federal court—that was the rule. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The police commissioner agreed the seating rules were confusing and promised that the city’s attorney would soon clarify them in writing. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Martial arts were forbidden by the rules, but these guys were so pointedly low- key, and the rule seemed to me so ill conceived, that I didn’t break it up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are no real hard and fast rules,” Bunderson wrote in his internal memo. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She had one rule to keep us safe from toadstools and such: “If it tastes good, it’s bad for you,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was making one basic mistake—the assumption that Root would play by the rules. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “All the same, a rule is of no value unless the punishment is enforced. You will have to stay in your room for the rest of your stay.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Made me think the rules didn’t apply in Boston. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on the evidence that’s been presented, I rule in favor of the defendant. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time, two sisters ruled a magical land.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The drugs became scarce, which prompted state correctional authorities to obtain them illegally, without complying with FDA rules that regulate the interstate sale and transfer of drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The drug game had its own rules, its own structure. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I go to the door when she’s using the bathroom, and she never looks over my shoulder when I’m writing, those are two more rules. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I draw fire and water forgetting all the rules and morphing into something new. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As an implicit rule, we do not talk about our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew the rules were there to keep us alive and protect us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z According to the Egyptian law that the Ptolemies followed, women were allowed to take the throne and rule in their own right or as equal partners alongside the men. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Abide by this one and only rule and you won’t find yourself wasting hours with the company’s counselors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “All that ‘right to rule’ rubbish, it’s ‘Magic Is Might’ all over again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He toiled silently at a desk inside the Russian Section, which, like all departments, was locked, heavily guarded, and subject to strict rules about what could be taken in—or out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the time the new rules were adopted, the law governing civil forfeiture was so heavily weighted in favor of the government that fully 80 percent of forfeitures went uncontested. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Where is the easy land of ice-cream cones and new Keds sneakers and We Like Ike, the country where I thought I knew the rules. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There must be a way to make these smothering rules go away. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Right away, we could rule out a few grammatical shitstorms, along with anything that seemed too technically knowledgeable about sex. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no difficult concepts to master; the rules were all straightforward. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I made myself some rules for what I would include. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It made me think he was probably a good officer, funny but tough, an enforcer of the rules. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, such as gold or uranium, elements prized because of arbitrary economic conventions or aesthetic judgments, or because they have remarkable practical applications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem that entirely new rules apply to competition between the world’s peoples, and that as a result new powers are emerging—such as Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, and especially Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The only ones who appeared to understand the rules were the vachettes themselves, whose instructions seemed pretty straightforward: attack, attack, attack. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In my closet are balls for sports I still don’t know the rules to. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The rules of the race allowed each rider to start with two horses and required that he stop at various checkpoints along the way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Not so, though, with young Howard—assistant manager Howard, as he is uniformly called— who rules over all of softlines, including infants’, children’s, men’s, accessories, and underwear. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The best way to fend off their comments, I decided, would be to try and enforce the rules as strictly as I could. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Waste not, want not” had always been her rule. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As they climbed, Babi told them that Bamiyan had once been a thriving Buddhist center until it had fallen under Islamic Arab rule in the ninth century. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They ruled that moral laws came before duty to any nation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There came a day just before Thanksgiving break, when Danny broke the rules again and came close up to talk to me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But although Watson and Crick knew this rule, they had no idea how it might apply to the final structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, there were radical changes in the traditional sense of hospitality because at that time it was Fernanda who imposed her rules. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “But it doesn’t sit right with me for all the others to be allowed to use their abilities and you not. And I suppose no one said it was against the rules of the tryout.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The rules are simple: • Number of Players: 16, divided into 8 pairs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until more than twenty years later, in 1895, did the Supreme Court rule that a judge of the federal courts could not direct a guilty verdict. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But desolation rules night and day, except for a thin stream of pedestrians heading for their jobs at the Sheraton or the 7-Eleven. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And the same rule seems to apply to all “natural” memories. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Mom’s only rule about books is no sex stuff, and no romance novels, which is fine. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In 1806 he had come up with a plan: Let the English rule the seas; he, Napoleon, would insist that no country in Europe would buy from them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The rules Du Barry made me swallow down about fraternizing with men and boys outside of beauty work vanish. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It’s against the rules, but pull a pink card.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We as black people were compelled to learn these rules in order to stay alive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The dead are not superstitious, not as a rule, but they watched her as a Roman Augur might have watched the sacred crows circle, seeking wisdom, seeking a clue. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z That was one of the rules of building the booth: there could be nothing over it that would obscure a view of the sky. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Take it up with your counselor. But those are the rules.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Even the kindergarten children knew of the inflexible rule against entering a room while the flag was being saluted. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z You wanted a good time; “they,” meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I miss him,” Ophie said, forgetting their unspoken rule, breaking yet another promise. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It also harked back to her own traditional Orthodox upbringing where the home was run by one dominating figure with strict rules and regulations. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At least that had been the rule back when her mom used to make all kinds of cookies, all year long. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You’re plenty capable of succeeding in this class. But you will need to participate, follow the rules, and do the work.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Our rules say that the quarry across the river is not in shrew territory, mouse. Therefore, we cannot go with you!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z One career option I rule out for her is diplomat. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “I still haven’t ruled it out,” came Hermione’s muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Even though it has seemed inevitable to me since I saw how Evelyn chose to rule, I feel sick. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Next, I broke the rule that no Muslim is supposed to have any contact with another Muslim in the “isolated” state. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you can show us that you can follow the rules, then we can talk about this again when we feel it is time. But until then, this is final.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Styx made it sound like breaking the rules wasn’t really so bad as long as you didn’t get caught. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Eleanor Roosevelt refused to obey the segregation rule. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Okay, okay. Well, you can’t even call in that favor. The rules specify that no animals may drain the poison. Apparently, it can turn them into huge monsters that eat everything around them.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When the ban went into effect in 1920, reformers who had campaigned for it were pleased, but plenty of Americans refused to comply with the new rules. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The district court ruled that the evidence presented was sufficient to justify discovery for the purposes of determining whether the allegations of selective enforcement were valid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There were rules for crossing London streets, but she took no notice, and when anyone shouted, she fled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She thought rules and discipline held people back and felt that the best way to let children fulfill their potential was by providing freedom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why not? Why do you get to make the rules?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In Mind the Stop Carey defines punctuation as being governed “two-thirds by rule and one- third by personal taste”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Emma and Charles were not strict, and they took pains to explain to the children clearly what few rules there were. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of my American friends had way stricter rules in their households. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z As a result, he ruled his area with absolute power, roaring his orders so constantly the villagers called him Magistrate Tiger. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “However, the Oakland Police Department cannot comment on pending investigations, nor can it subvert the rule of law in this city.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I know I’m setting up a problem for later because Dad’s always late, but I have rules, too, and one of mine is: Sometimes you're, gotta work with what you're, got. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew very well that only the night before this preacher had shown neither Forgiveness nor Mercy in flogging some small boy who had broken the rules. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “They had a complex system of rules, but... yes, that’s essentially what happened.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z On the court, the court he loved, the court he ruled at times, Ben felt disembodied, running to the point of exhaustion, but more alive and more human than he would ever be again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z If that kid was going to heaven to rule with Christ, then I just hoped he w'ouldn’t forget the little people and would put in a good word for me and Blanca. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Still, we knew how fragile our security was in the face of constantly changing German rules and policies. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z By 1982, with the hostage crisis finally over, but with no end in sight for the Iran-Iraq War or Khomeini's rule, my parents decided to peace out of the Middle East. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z So his managers conspired to skip him ahead to a P-2, which, by the arcane rules of bureaucracy, didn’t have the same requirement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His primary rule was that no one could talk unless the subject was of general interest. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d led an overhaul of state campaign finance laws that ushered in stricter ethics rules for elected officials. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Basketball is a game of rules that you must submit to for the good of the team, and Boy21 is already not playing by the rules. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought those were against the rules,” Isabella says, nodding at my armband. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z They always ask us to play, but we can never figure out the rules. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It seems to be an unspoken rule in this household: we always get here on time, he’s always late, Serena always lets us watch the news. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Her rules on how to behave as we began venturing out more into the world were detailed and always present. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In fact, their numbers were so great in some areas that theater owners had to relax rules segregating black patrons and restricting them to certain areas of the theater. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “For fifty minutes a day, five days a week, you abide by my rules. Or you fail. The choice is yours. Both of you leave.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z These are the rules that we recognize today: divide two numbers and the answer is positive if the numbers’ signs are the same. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A moment of cheap symbolism only, and then I have to bow to the strict rules of realism, which is to say: they can’t see a thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He who was supposedly anointed by God and would rule with Christ for a thousand years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In fact, the rules assume that there will be bacteria in the meat, because in a giant slaughterhouse, there’s no way to avoid it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “First rule: attendance is taken only when you are in your seats before the second bell rings.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The rules kept us where we were, as much a part of the farm now as the trees, more firmly rooted to its earth than the deer and foxes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z All the adults had said it would be best for me to watch my manners and be a good girl—in following God's will and obeying His rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She was too beautiful tonight to be their mother and to impose the old rules. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I was conscious that she had descended to my own emotional level in her effort to rule me, and my respect for her sank. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She added with an arch smile, “Perhaps the most arrogant ones. The Fairy Queen, of course, purports to rule them all.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Where there are rules and rights for him and rules and rights for her and they are different rules and rights. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was only a matter of time before Egypt and Rome together would rule the world. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Enough jabbering about rules and monsters,” Grandpa said, standing up. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I'll go with Frank and Mr. Sneaky Jackson. The rest of you guard the ship and make sure Annabeth doesn’t break any more rules!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I started screaming, forgetting all about my father’s rule, begging for forgiveness from my assailant for whatever wrong I had done. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Since only two teams could go to the playoffs, the district’s tiebreaker rule went into effect: a coin toss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ran afoul of one of the rules in this charming place. I ate one of the mealies meant for your lunch.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There are plenty of enterprises where we invent the rules and we change them when we want to. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z |
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