rule
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The pair’s greatest contribution to women’s basketball could be forcing the league to come up with some rule that keeps them out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
If not Manchester City - and it is far too early to rule them out - who might stop Arsenal marching to a 15th league title?
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Espenson’s theory still holds: Chosen One stories still rule.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
It does not appear to represent a universal biological rule.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The first rule in a simulation was not to talk to anyone unless it was absolutely necessary.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
States also claim Meta committed unfair business practices by letting users create multiple Instagram accounts, which they say allows kids to circumvent parental controls and rules barring children under age of 13 from creating accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The ranchers said the park service saddled them with excessive rules and regulations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Beijing is pushing artificial intelligence deep into the economy while writing rules around it.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jeffery believes there is a "two-tier planning system", with rules applied unfairly.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
But the rules didn’t seem to apply to Toby.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
The team of attorneys general can also show jurors select evidence to support those claims at opening statements on Tuesday, weeks before most of it enters the record through witness testimony, Gonzalez Rogers ruled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
He spent a year weighing up options and ruled out having a surgical procedure.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
A federal judge previously ruled that the board could not rename the Kennedy Center without congressional approval and blocked an earlier closure plan.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
District Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled on Thursday that there wasn’t sufficient evidence of ongoing institutionalized racial discrimination at Harvard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
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.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
In his ruling, Judge William Alsup said Anthropic's use of the authors' books was "exceedingly transformative" and therefore allowed under US law.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The appeals court temporarily paused its ruling, giving the administration time to seek relief from the high court.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Taliban government celebrates five years of ruling Afghanistan on Saturday, with the authorities hailing their country's "freedom" and security, while critics decry tightening restrictions in all areas of daily life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
López Beltrán is the son of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the founder of the leftist ruling party Morena, and the powerful mentor of the current Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
We were devastated when the Court of Criminal Appeals issued a ruling affirming her conviction and sentence.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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