1.   Preference rules give guidance on how to choose between alternative possible grouping structures.

2.   It will be appreciated that this rule gives the registrar a wide discretion.

3.   As guides always point out, Chinese rule has given Xinjiang roads, schools and factories.

4.   Baroody said new contracting rules give far too much discretion to contracting officers who he said should be required to weigh numerous factors, including quality and value.

5.   Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

6.   Broadcasters claimed that the FCC enforcement rules give the agency almost unrestricted power to decide what qualifies as indecency, and amount to a system of informal censorship.

7.   But administration officials and even some big producers, including British Petroleum, reject this gloomy assessment, in part because the rules give refiners ample lead time.

8.   But archaic amateur rules never gave track athletes room to make a living and still compete.

9.   But on balance, the rules give patients enormous power to control the release of their own medical information, a long-overdue step to ensure privacy.

10.   But the DOT has never taken formal action against an airline, and Hunnicutt said the rules would give it the tools to identify and punish such behavior.