adhere to rules
Example Sentences
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Bostic faced scrutiny three years ago after he disclosed he had failed to adhere to rules governing senior officials’ personal-financial transactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
Scholz sought a two-thirds majority in parliament because the required loans are sanctioned by the constitution and don’t need to adhere to rules limiting new debt.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
The changes put forward would oblige VoDs to protect audiences from harmful or offensive material, and adhere to rules regarding accuracy, fairness and privacy.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2022
Those sentiments are rarely more obvious than in the most formal circumstances, when we feel that we must adhere to rules both written and implied.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2015
Why then should we rigidly adhere to rules repugnant to the genius of our language, if they can be modified so as to adapt the sonorous Hexameter to the structure of our mother-tongue?
From Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon
