inviolable rule

I have an inviolable rule never to ask for a subscription renewal."

My home planet had an inviolable rule of etiquette: never force yourself on someone twice in a row.

There is just one inviolable rule: nobody votes without a National Identity Card.

She enforced one inviolable rule: 'Do not use the ostrich eggs.'

One of Banchert's inviolable rules was that his unit never use the easily monitorable police voice circuits.

This was not an inviolable rule.

These are not inviolable rules.

They'd broken one inviolable rule.

He has one inviolable rule, he continued: never complain or knock anyone who stops you, including - obviously - the police and meter maids.

However, for modern linguistics, they are not taken as inviolable rules; rather, they are seen as guidelines.

There is another inviolable rule, and it is probably the most important: Do not push your child into modeling if he or she is not willing.

This has always been their inviolable rule: you earn your place at the top by how the web views you independently [of Google and advertising].

Present tense, brevity in prose, objective detachment and implication are common characteristics of modern haibun in English but no characteristic is an inviolable rule.

Your attention may be further strained by Mr. Wiseman's inviolable rule of shunning narration and allowing events to unfold without introduction or explanation.

Whether this reflects the inviolable rule of hospitality, the undeniable misogyny in the Old Testament, or that angels have higher standing than humans is open to question.

Magueijo, a young Portuguese scientist, suggests that as the universe has grown older the speed of light has slowed, challenging Albert Einstein and an inviolable rule of theoretical physics.

Then: "We believe that the world behaves according to certain inviolable rules and that, by persistent effort, we can discover those rules and use them to predict events when circumstances repeat."

As with most of the previous performances, the newest dance is proceeding according to a set of inviolable rules, rendered much stricter because this particular dance has begun during a gubernatorial election year.

So in essence, the world that their reason wants to sustain is the world created by a description and its dogmatic and inviolable rules, which their reason learns to accept and defend.

But when Sergei broke his father's inviolable rule - he was not allowed to discuss Politburo members - and told the Soviet leader of the warning, Nikita Khrushchev dismissed it as implausible.

One casualty of this policy was Ruby Haynes, who had filed her first application with the housing authority back in 1949, and had been told that there was an inviolable rule against admitting unwed mothers to the projects.

An adulterous wife might be the means of implanting a fraudulent claimant upon its property in the heart of the family; to avoid this ultimate catastrophe, middle class women were regulated to observe an inviolable rule of chastity.

An inviolable rule about buildings for the showing of moving pictures, applicable throughout the multiverse, is that the ghastliness of the architecture around the back is inversely proportional to the gloriousness of the architecture in the front.

That will be the inviolable rule in the hushed, austere, expansive skylighted spaces of the $858 million expanded and renovated Museum of Modern Art when it opens its doors Nov. 20, 12 days after its 75th birthday.