set rules

You're involved in a game where you do not set the rules.

Once you put them on paper, they set their own rules.

It was part of the 1960 meeting to set the rules for the game.

After that all he had to do was set the rules.

I thought about that and decided he wasn't in a position to set rules.

"The people in Congress control the system and they set the rules," he said.

Beyond that, it is left to each teacher to set rules.

Are those whom we perhaps want to control to be allowed to set their own rules in the future?

Oh yes, it is their game, they set the rules!

Years would be required for this work in peace time, but the war set new rules.