according to rule
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In 2021, the agency reduced allowances for power plants in 12 states to curb an oversupply in the NOx-credit market, according to rule changes published by the EPA.
From Reuters • Apr. 22, 2023
Posts must be directly related to Elsagate, according to rule #3, with no sidetracks into adjacent theories about pedophile rings or MK Ultra.
From The Verge • Dec. 8, 2017
The U. S. Navy names its ships according to rule: cruisers are named for cities, battleships for States, submarines for fish, transports for deceased commandants of the U. S. Marine Corps.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The enemy was playing the game according to rule, gathering up his mobile reserves, including crack German and Italian divisions of far-better battle quality than the garrison and coast-defense troops which had been brushed aside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only an occasional versifier in a critical or intellectual spirit grinds out a machine-made metre, every foot of which can be scanned according to rule.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
