The rule of law

Definition

rule /ru:l/ n ၁။ [C] စည္းကမ္း။ စည္းမ်ဥ္း။ အမိန္႔။ နည္းဥပေဒ။ the rules of football ❍ observe/obey/ follow the rules ❍ draw up a set of rules and regulations ❍ It is a school rule that someone must be on duty at all times. ❍ He has broken the rules and will have to be disqualified. ❍ Don't get annoyed with me—I don't make the rules! See also GROUND RULE ၂။ [C usu sing ] အက်င့္။ ပံုမွန္။ ထံုးစံ။ He makes it a rule never to borrow money. ❍ Cold winters here are the exception rather than the rule (ie are rare). ❍ As a (general) rule I'm home by six. ၃။ [U] စိုးမိုးမႈ။ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈ။ အစိုးရ။ ႀကီးစိုးမႈ။ democratic/majority rule ❍ a long spell of Republican rule ❍ a country formerly under French rule ❍ mob rule (ie the state that exists when a violent crowd takes control). See also HOME RULE ၄။ [C] မ်ဥ္းတံ။ See also SLIDE-RULE ၅။ [C] မ်ဥ္း။ စည္း။ v ၁။ ~ (over sb/sth) စိုးမိုးသည္။ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ She once ruled over a vast empire. ❍ Charles I ruled (England) for eleven years. ၂။ (usu passive) လႊမ္းမိုးသည္။ Don't allow yourself to be ruled by your emotions. ❍ She let her heart rule her head (ie acted according to her emotions, rather than logical thoughts). ၃။ ျပ႒ာန္းသည္။ အမိန္႔ခ်မွတ္ သည္။ စီရင္ခ်က္ခ်သည္။ (ေရွး) ျဖတ္စာခ်သည္။ The judge ruled in favour of/against the plaintiff. ❍ The chairman ruled that the question was out of order/ruled the speaker out of order. ❍ The court ruled the action to be illegal. ၄။ မ်ဥ္းသားသည္။ Do you want ruled paper (ie with parallel lines printed on it) or plain? ❏ bend/stretch the rules [ IDM ] စည္းကမ္းဥပေဒကို လိုသလို ဆြဲဆန္႔သည္၊ ဆြဲယူသည္။ ❏ rule sth off [ PHRV ] မ်ဥ္းသားကန္႔သည္။ မ်ဥ္းပိတ္ သည္။ ❏ the rule of law [ IDM ] တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးမႈ။ The hallmark of his tyranny was a complete disregard for the rule of law. ❏ a rule of thumb [ IDM ] လက္ေတြ႕အရ အတိအက် မဟုတ္ေသာ္လည္း အၾကမ္းဖ်င္းနည္း။ လက္သံုးျဖတ္လမ္း နည္း။ As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound that it weighs. ❏ rule sb/sth out (as sth) [ PHRV ] ထည့္မတြက္ဘဲ ထားသည္။ စာရင္းမွပယ္သည္။ That possibility can't be ruled out altogether (ie It must continue to be considered). ❍ His age effectively ruled him out as a possible candidate. ❏ rule the roost [ IDM ] ဗိုလ္က်သည္။ ဗိုလ္လုပ္သည္။ ❏ rule (sb/sth) with a rod of iron [ IDM ] ဓားမိုး အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ ❏ work to rule [ IDM ] (စက္႐ံုမ်ားတြင္ ဆႏၵျပသည့္ သေဘာျဖင့္) စာအုပ္ႀကီးအတိုင္းလုပ္၍ လုပ္ငန္းဖင့္ေႏွးေစျခင္း။ See also WORK-TO-RULE

Examples

1. We need new club rules before we start looking for more members.
2. [rule of] : The basic rules of the game
3. [break a rule] : Anyone who breaks the rules will face disciplinary action.
4. [follow/obey a rule] : You should always follow these simple rules when using electrical equipment.
5. [against the rules] : You can’t do that
6. it’s against the rules!
7. [rules and regulations] : They complain that businesses are being hampered by too many rules and regulations.
8. Complicated grammatical rules
9. British rule over Hong Kong ended in 1997.
10. The country was in tatters after 13 years of Conservative rule.