1.   Free from outdated rules regarding outdoor clothing and morals, the Lawrences certainly had a more lively manner.

2.   He explained that union membership was an outdated rule.

3.   Although China recently began allowing it to be exchanged for trade-related purposes, outdated rules technically ban anyone from taking yuan out of the country.

4.   Experts blame a combination of outdated rules and incestuous financial relationships for the accounting errors, disputes and restatements that have become disconcertingly common.

5.   Such hearings are required each decade by federal law to weed out outdated rules and regulations.

6.   The outdated rules, those critics said, deny growers access to safe, useful chemicals that could lead to more bountiful harvests.

7.   Two priorities will be cost-benefit analyses of all new regulations and elimination of outdated rules that are no longer useful or necessary.