How to Use rule of the road in a Sentence

rule of the road

noun phrase
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  • These are, like, the rules of the road for the Paris Agreement.
    — Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2021
  • And it's done in accordance with the rules of the road.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 5 June 2023
  • But ride-hail drivers say that sometimes the rules of the road need to be fudged.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The trick is to reduce the risk to both sides by jointly crafting rules of the road.
    — Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2021
  • So the rules of the road for mortgage finance in the U.S. are very different.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The bikers ride fast, daringly, and without regard to the rules of the road.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 June 2024
  • Skiing, like cycling or driving, comes with its own rules of the road.
    — Curbed, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Ignoring the rules of the road puts us in peril and erodes the fabric of our society.
    — Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
  • Having conversations with our youths about traffic laws and the rules of the road can lead to change.
    — Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
  • Packs of riders tend to form a sort of hive-mind groupthink overwhelming formal rules of the road.
    — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Along with the growing trend of e-bikes comes concerns of safety, rules of the road and trips to hospitals for its riders.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • He should be well versed in teaching the rules of the road when his 13-year-old daughter Jordan, and 10-year-old son Knox are ready to take their turn behind the wheel.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
  • So why don’t kids who ride e-bike/scooters ( these are motor vehicles) also need to take a class and test about the rules of the road?
    — Jim Radcliffe, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The overwhelming majority of Dashers do the right thing and, like all drivers, must follow the rules of the road.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 5 June 2024
  • So while the basic rules of the road remain the same on both coasts, observing them is another matter.
    — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • On this drive, the truck followed all the rules of the road and even demonstrated an uncommon courtesy to other drivers.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Finally, states could adopt uniform rules of the road for autonomous drones to reduce the risk of accidents.
    — Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
  • If these were the rules of the road across the economy, there’d be no cellular plans, newspaper subscriptions or video streaming services.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The trick in this case is to reduce the risk to both sides as the competition between them unfolds by jointly crafting a limited number of rules of the road that will help prevent war.
    — Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The challenge for courts is to develop rules of the road for how government officials can interact with platforms.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
  • Coming from a country where traffic lanes, lights and signs were virtually nonexistent, even men who drove in their homeland face a big adjustment to the rules of the road in the United States.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • For young foreigners contending with Spain’s repressive society and strict laws, the plaza served as a node in a bush telegraph—a place to exchange survival tips, warnings of risk, and rules of the road.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • These are examples of a belief that industry has to come together around building trust and also establishing a framework for trust, what the rules of the road are and the guidelines are.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • As for those who chafe at the prospect of getting pulled over, here’s a helpful tip: Don’t speed, run red lights, drive erratically or otherwise violate the rules of the road, and the chances are good that you won’t be targeted.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Now is the time for our rules of the road for internet service providers to reflect the reality that internet access is a necessity for daily life.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The big picture: In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Actually, Gordon didn’t go that far, and there’s obvious value to testing people on the rules of the road (provided the questions are relevant).
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That will also mean setting out rules of the road for what sorts of chips, AI training data and other code ... can be housed in the data centers that countries around the world are racing to build to localize AI information.
    — Mike Allen, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • Incidentally, bike riders are also expected to follow the rules of the road—including stopping at stop lights or signs.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Thanks in part to Trump, it’s also become more commonplace for politicians in the West to sour on the entire project of globalization and specifically lament the ways in which Beijing manipulated the rules of the road to its advantage.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024

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