The rule stipulates that any shareholder wishing to sell has to offer existing shareholders the chance to buy their stake first.

Its only other rule stipulates that members 'must enjoy themselves at all times'.

In particular, the rule stipulates that for each one-percent increase in inflation, the central bank should raise the nominal interest rate by more than one percentage point.

The panel said that many of the swimmer's contentions and positions were 'unfounded and invalid' and that his avoiding an antidoping rule violation had been 'a closerun thing'.

However, 'the manipulation of the samples themselves could lead to an antidoping rule violation and sanctions'.

It was a clear rules violation, caused by human error, and it left the organisers with no option.

However, before he could sign his card, he was informed of a potential rules violation on the par-five 12th hole and was driven off in a buggy to investigate.

From these it produces a report of design rule violations that the designer may or may not choose to correct.

The unnamed operator did not have a safety rule card, a probe found.

Therefore, nearly all human-factor incidents and injuries can be associated with one or more operating or safety rule violations.

All incidents resulted from safety rule violations on the part of the student.

Photos of a pupil in 1980 and an experiment in 1978 recall an era before strict health and safety rules.

The first 'passengers' - daft health and safety rules mean they cannot be described as such - had been carried on the new route last summer.

As for service, snootiness has been replaced by smiles and one simple rule: make the guest want to come back.

Live by this simple rule: do not buy any gadget that requires a new type of cable.

These images all followed a simple rule that, when repeated over and over, led (eventually) to an infinitely complex image.

As for cheap unknowns, there's a simple rule: buy to try before you stock up.

That's a simple rule, but it's easy to get wrong.

The strict rule dates from when the fabrics and haberdashery business began 65 years ago.

That strict rule was there as a real deterrent to betrayal.

So clogged are the narrow streets of the lakeside town that officers brought in a strict rule that cars could be parked for only 45 minutes.

This strategy follows one strict rule, making conscious thought rather than unconscious thought the preferred mode of thinking.

Typically, metamodels are and always should follow - a strict rule set.

Hence, the stringent rules of admission: low interest rates, low inflation, low debt.

I don't see anything wrong with having more stringent rules.

The disclosure has led to renewed calls for more stringent rules to stop politicians from cashing in too quickly on their time in office.

That's why we in this country have extremely stringent rules to safeguard all fighters.

What's more, stringent rules will now be imposed on low-level flying exercises.

Other variants suspend this rule, and only declare the game after every member of one faction has been eliminated.

No motion to suspend this rule shall be in order.

Far from flawless, not the greatest team player, but a great player nonetheless; for such a talent you suspend the rules.

They want whole departments to be allowed to suspend the rules.

Real war involves postponing elections and suspending the rule of law, plus billeting, censorship, internment, rationing, requisitioning and all the other grim necessities and sacrifices involved in national survival.

The system requires every individual to respect the private ownership and the voluntary and non-coercive trade rule.

The so-called level playing field on trade rules and standards remains contentious.

In fact, the trade rules today seem inverted.

Such inter-vention, which breached inter-national trade rules, included cheap finance, tax holidays and below-market rent.

Globally, the enforcement of trade rules will spur economic activity and trade and investment growth.

In a filing on the securities commission website, commission officials allege violations of insider trading rules.

Even so, the insider trading rules are murky.

Trading rules restrict the ability of countries to do what they want.

A commission spokesman said it would analyse the compliance of the plan with international trading rules.

Lending and proprietory trading rules must be rethought.

Some unspoken rule in advertising holds that the public needs to be shocked into giving up cigarettes.

We have this unspoken rule that when we meet, they are not allowed to talk about tennis.

But the unspoken rule was that darker or more extensive colour should be... safe, a sort of new neutral.

It's also an unspoken rule that the pair don't socialise - even though they've known each other for three decades.

There's an unspoken rule, isn't there?

There was an unwritten rule in our office that you worked here for two weeks or a very long time.

We will be raucous, empowered and will turn on its head the unwritten rule that says the old should be weak and invisible.

But not every impersonator abides by the unwritten rule of delivering balance and of keeping their own personal politics out of their work.

But he was also following an unwritten rule.

There's an unwritten rule among publishers never to put a picture of a fish dish on the cover of a cook book.

The public would trust judges more than politicians to uphold the rule of law and maintain a fair balance between security and liberty.

Our police force exists not to subject citizens to the will of power, but to uphold the rule of law, to which power also must answer.

An example of the strictness of the discipline might be the rule regarding eating: they uphold the rule to only eat between dawn and noon.

You see, most leaders come into their positions promising to obey the rules, to uphold the rules, to enforce the rules.

But just as important, it has demonstrated that a left-of-centre government can pursue social programmes while upholding the rule of law and constitutional democracy.

The manager of the shop firmly refused to waive this rule.

After months of secret negotiations, government chiefs agreed to waive the rule that keeps official papers under wraps for 30 years before they are released to the public.

Proponents of the measure may move to waive the rule.

Football associations reserve the right to waive this rule, but rarely exercise it.

Ministers are preparing to waive the rules on residency tests to allow people to claim housing and council tax benefit on arrival.