rule-bending

This time, there has been a bit of rule-bending.

As the country has developed, there is less place for growth that relies on rule-bending and cheap labour.

But their rule-bending usually works because they are humorous, satirical and/or intelligent.

Rule-bending is not something which only poets do.

German doctors often don't introduce themselves, aren't strong on explanation and disapprove of rule-bending.

Seasoned professionals know what works: being creative, independent, spontaneous, practical and rule-bending.

Any evidence of rule-bending was either burnt or returned to Hanslope Park.

Of course, all this rule-bending was done with the tacit, if not outright, approval of the federal government.

Vote-buying was common, as were other lurches towards rule-bending and ballot-rigging.

But the agreement has also led to a culture of rule-bending by teams and players hamstrung by the salary cap.

When are tennis authorities going to do something about the rule-bending and blatant time wasting that runs like a sore through the sport?

And if rule-bending is something of a national art in Italy, Berlusconi is the master.

Likewise, stories about government grants to specific ridings, contracts, rule-bending, etc., are "political".

From such pressure comes the breakdowns in integrity, the rule-bending, the outright cheating that despoils all of sport.

It has also been termed "rule-bending".

The news came as the head of the railroad whose runaway tank cars devastated the town said that rule-bending by an engineer had caused the accident.

 It's a far cry from the sort of rule-bending on the ABC version.

And if taxpayers own a majority of A.I.G., aren’t we the beneficiaries of the rule-bending?

But I didn't expect any rule-bending here in a place where they hung warning posters in the corridors about drinking, smoking, sexual harassment, and thought crimes.

Rabbit's rule-bending and often comedic style differs from her stern by-the-book way of working but she eventually learns to tolerate Rabbit's actions.

This new meaning of creative, with its implication of imaginative rule-bending for possibly disreputable purposes, appears to have been coined in the field of accountancy .

Apparently, the CIOC chairman was concerned about Striker's reputation for rule-bending, so he contacted the White House and spoke directly with the president.

While outsiders are shocked by the charges, many Dominicans are not, because, they say, the country's political and business elite long ago honed corruption and rule-bending into an art.

The Association of Tennis Professionals Tour, monitor of the men's tennis circuit, has responded to the Persian Gulf war with some rule-bending.

As Italy, and to a certain extent, Spain, have tried to show, transparency and capital strength – rather than obfuscation and rule-bending – are the key to market confidence.