Sentences with phrase «rules suit the purpose»

The importance of following the rules should not be reflexively asserted without asking whether the rules suit the purpose.

Not exact matches

Or rather, they like to rewrite the rules in order to suit their own purposes.

Atheists keep trying to apply scientifc rules of evidence where they don't belong — to matters of human affairs — yet are perfectly content to throw away the same rules when it suits their purposes (e.g., evolution).

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

If you don't consistently enforce the rules, an American Eskimo Dog will use his intelligence in clever ways that suit his own purposes.

I decline to take offence, as a general rule, and you provide me no particular reason why I should lower my standards to suit your purpose.

The B.C. Supreme Court ruled January 14 that stifling Alan Dutton's right to protest was not the primary purpose of a multi-million-dollar civil suit and, therefore, his application for a summary dismissal of the case was denied.

Rather than follow the rule of «work now, grieve later,» he failed to comply and then tried to negotiate a compromise that suited his purpose.»

The purpose of this post is to respond to the questions I am getting about the suit and the proposed rules.