However, in the Directive the country-of-origin rule is intended as a rule of national supervision, not as a conflict rule.
Partly because of his stammer, brought on by a fall through a roof as a lad, and partly because people from Hesket didn’t talk too much as a rule, he didn’t care to meet strangers.
I've mentioned before that one interesting fact about the downturn is that unemployment rates have doubled, across the country and across demographic groups, almost as a rule.
Deep ones (as a rule of thumb, those below 20km, or 12 miles) generate small or non-existent tsunamis because their uplifting effects are absorbed by the overburden.
Moreover, it appeared to them that dreams must serve a special purpose in respect of the dreamer; that, as a rule, they predicted the future.
Anthropologist Edward Smith recalls that when he worked as a White House speechwriter, there was a rule against wearing the White House tag after work.