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• There are exceptions to every rule.
• There's an unwritten rule that you don't wear jeans to work.
• They made an ineffective attempt to get the rules changed.
• Prisoners complain that they are subjected to too many petty rules and restrictions.
• Grammatical rules prescribe how words may be used together.

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• Various parts of Africa have suffered under colonial rule.
• The constituency fell to Labour at the last election, after ten years of Conservative rule.
• The president resigned after 30 years of autocratic rule.
• In the end she left home just to escape the tyrannical rule of her mother.
• The people revolted against foreign rule and established their own government.

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• The occupying force ruled by diktat.
• The Romans ruled over most of Europe.
• He was able to rule the game with his superior strength and skill.
• He has been ruling the country since a military coup in 1987.
• It used to be said that Britain ruled an empire on which the sun never set.

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• Her confession was ruled inadmissible as evidence because it was given under pressure from the police.
• The judge ruled that the directors had knowingly broken the law.
• The judge ruled her unfit to plead on the grounds of insanity.
• We won't be surprised if the judge rules in her favour.
• The player was ruled off-side and so the goal was disallowed.