Sentences with phrase «making the rules up»

Make rules up front so you don't end up going down with the ship.

Just man kind making the rules up to fit his needs at the time..

Who made that rule up?

The world governing body of football and Sepp Blatter — as usual — making the rules up as they go along to fit their needs.

Pieters finished T - 4 here last year so we'll look past a dip in form because I'm making the rules up as I go.

Finally, cooperative play is complex and includes playing games that involve rules (or making rules up) or building something, such as a fort, as a group.

«We don't make the rules up,» said the NRC's James Wiggins.

Of course, the Cloverfield franchise is an ever - changing beast, making the rules up as it goes along.

Making the rules up as he goes along, the murderously corrupt Alonzo's mission is to transform this rookie and rid him of his upstanding ideals.

So in a very real sense, we are making the rules up as we go.

Not exact matches

And users who think that he makes up rules just to spite them.

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

Major colleges are up in arms over the reversal of an obscure rule that allows their alumni and supporters to make tax - deductible contributions to their teams, in return for priority seats at football and basketball games.

So when it's up to you to make the call on how to swim in this swamp, you'll find that there's no rule book or roadmap.

In a court ruling authorizing the arrests, Brazilian federal judge André Duszczak said «Faria and other BRF officers sought to cover up claims of possible food contamination, as shown in certain laboratory tests, made by a former employee in a labor lawsuit.»

I bought breakfast foods, and made rules about getting up at the same time every morning and eating them.

Of course if you aren't a spiritual person than it will be difficult to see your work as a sacred offering and because business is about making up your own rules, I would say... choose to see your business in whatever way works for you!

It seems that the traits that set one up for exceptional success in high school and college — «self - discipline, conscientiousness and the ability to comply with rules» — are not the same traits that lead individuals to start disruptive companies or make shocking breakthroughs.

The rollback of these privacy rules wouldn't be as big of a deal to people if they had a choice between an ISP that collects data en masse and one that makes it a point not to serve up targeted ads.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

As far as that goes, the three rules of crisis management are straightforward: First, own up to the truth and do it quick; second, move heaven and earth to make things right; and third, quietly let everyone move on.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

In the absence of rules, people make up their own.

Making such promises and failing to live up to them is a violation of FTC rules against unfair and deceptive business practices,» EFF Staff Attorney Nate Cardozo said.

«We've worked hard to make sure that those strange Senate rules don't hang this up in any way,» Brady added.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

It's not worth making up an expense or breaking the rules just to save a few hundred dollars.

And as a result, I had to learn everything the hard way and make up my own rules.

After accounting for the impact of IQ - level and class background, researchers found that «rule - breaking and defiance of parental authority» was the best predictor of which students ended up making higher incomes.

However, despite continued pushback from the broker - dealer and insurance industries on the controversial rulemaking — and delays — Saxon told ThinkAdvisor that he doesn't believe that Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, the main architect of the fiduciary rule, «is ever going to give up» on making sure the fiduciary redraft sees the light of day.

But the Honest Ads Act and other rules about ads transparency and data privacy could end up protecting Facebook by being simply a paperwork speed bump for it while making it tough for competitors to build a rival database of personal info.

Canada's move to take the U.S. to the World Trade Organization over its abuses of globally agreed rules, made public Wednesday, is a clear signal that the NAFTA exercise is up against the wall and that the U.S. is preparing to trigger the six - month withdrawal notice.

There are special rules that allow borrowers who are AmeriCorps or Peace Corps volunteers to use their Segal Education Award or Peace Corps transition payment to make a single «lump - sum» payment that may count for up to 12 qualifying PSLF payments.

From next month, holding onto personal data without a very good reason to do so will be far more risky — because GDPR is also backed up with a regime of supersized fines that are intended to make privacy rules much harder to ignore.

I think that we can instead rely on the 50, 100 or 500 rule, which I just made up.

All other parties have ruled out the idea of a coalition with the AfD, so the arithmetic of Teutonic politics dictates that for the foreseeable future Germany may be run by a succession of grand coalition governments made up of its two main parties.

So I don't think it's a surprise that when Donald Trump gets up and says, «I'm going to give you free benefits and I'm going to get rid of the rules, that I'm going to unshackle banks so that they can make more money again'that they're value would go up.»

SEP IRAs give businesses a simplified option, with streamlined rules that make them less onerous to set up and administer than 401 (k) plans and more complex choices.

On May 14th, everything changed, as six Canadian provinces endorsed equity crowdfunding by implementing rules that make it easier for early stage companies to raise capital and opening up the opportunity for the ordinary investor to participate alongside seasoned investors in private capital deals.

That the cartel as a whole exceeded its production ceiling last month suggests that each member - nation is making its own rules up anyway, regardless of what was decided.

The development teams make up their own rules as they go along, deciding what requirements best suit their needs before distributing free coins.

Yet it is government - created backlogs and delays and tight new rules that are the problem here, even if that very government has pointed the finger at its own employees on occasion to cover up its poor decision - making, and gone after conscientious whistle - blowers who object to being ordered to treat EI claimants unfairly.

Rule 1: You Can't Make Them Up Rule 2: Don't Confuse a Buyer Persona with a Customer Profile Rule 3: Get the Right People with the Right Attributes and the Right Skills Involved Rule 4: Buyer Personas Are a Translation of Goals Rule 5: A Buyer Persona Offers Insight into the Unarticulated and the No - So - Obvious Rule 6: Buyer Persona Development is Not a Quantitative Process Rule 7: Avoid Building a Wire Mesh of Data Points When Developing Buyer Personas Rule 8: Goal - Centered Qualitative and Experiential Analysis is the Foundation of Buyer Persona Development Rule 9: The Purpose of the Buyer Persona Development Process is to Inform on Goal - Centered Customer Strategies Rule 10: Buyer Persona Development Serves as a Communications Platform to Tell the Story of Customers and Buyers

And as to the rule about two months salary, the De Beers marketing machine made that one up.

Frequent changes in regulations and different local laws make it difficult to keep up with the latest rules.

The ECB made a rod for its own back when devising rules for the scheme that has seen it hoover up assets worth more than 1 trillion euros since its 2015 launch.

And who made up this rule?

Andy Nasr, portfolio manager at Middlefield Capital Corp., said cable providers still set pricing, which means they have the power to make up the difference if the government does change the rules.

Just live by the rules you have made up and you will be fine in the end.

It's obvious that the Old Testament rules were made up by the community leaders — some for good reasons particular to that situation and others as a rather heavy - handed means of control.