#rules

Ownership is a set of rules that governs how a Rust program manages memory.

From The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols

The number of a subject determines the number of its verb.

From The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

To understand the universe, you must first understand its rules.

From The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick

In the game of evolution, the players are organisms, and the rules are set by nature.

From The Red Queen by Matt Ridley

What scientists actually do is much more complicated than any set of rules can capture.

From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The community at Qumran was marked by its strict rules and communal living.

From The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Lim