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But in some other sports I was never the most rule-bound of players.

We are finally moving away from the defensive rule-bound culture that has been so problematic.

To meet a new scale of need, many nonprofit agencies became more professional and so rule-bound.

Currently, about a third of the district's annual funding is tied up in rule-bound programs.

"If you're too rule-bound, you won't be able to consider creative possibilities."

The call for the development of precedents is rooted in a traditional, rule-bound analysis.

As such, they are, almost by definition, less rule-bound than interstate wars.

An intricate and rule-bound subculture developed, one that is still going on.

The debates are so controlled and rule-bound that they may be rather dull in the end.

It appears that individuals who are too 'rule-bound' or bureaucratic will not be effective in this environment.

This potential revolution in one of the most rule-bound industries has been given a cautious welcome.

Otherwise the rule-bound Robbins would be forever beyond his grasp.

This is the rule-bound world of school, which Kipling never really escaped, nor wanted to.

There are no rules, and sometimes in ballet we are a little too rule-bound.

But slang remains beautifully rule-bound, or its users couldn’t understand one another.

As in America, the format of the British contests will be rule-bound.

If I were to give some rules to the rule-bound, they already have too many; they need to loosen up.

The crew is allowed to wear shorts, a practice strictly forbidden by the more rule-bound Americans.

Dr. Henschke's career has not exactly been conventional or rule-bound.

Second, the initial attack on traditional public administration as rule-bound bureaucracy emanated from the private sector.

For example, some people become compliant, obsessive, rule-bound individuals.

Football, like most American sports, is heavily rule-bound.

Practical experience shows no organization is ever completely rule-bound: instead, all real organizations represent some mix of formal and informal.

If that was the case, the warriors might be only a subordinate caste, and their rule-bound wars would make more sense.

A flourishing market order requires small, rule-bound government.