A principles-based approach is better than a rules-based approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYSE's Marriage Issues] Reference

Any departure from the rules-based approach should be deemed unacceptable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for a New Energy Policy] Reference

The president is a big free trade guy, and he's a big rules-based trade guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2006] Reference

But there is a rules-based system by which these two elephants have to abide.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Is No Trade King] Reference

It is a rules-based organisation that can discipline members that break the rules.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Two Wings of a Great Movement"] Reference

We need you to work with the WTO to build a rules-based framework for global trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President To Imf And World Bank] Reference

This is good for the country to see this, a rules-based process followed in good faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Dean's Midnight Call From Al Gore After 2004 Loss] Reference

Bringing China into that rules-based system advances the right kind of reform in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From The President On China And Wto] Reference

America must also continue to lead the world to have an open rules-based trading system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President To Export Council] Reference

We do need, at the start, to clarify our support for the multilateral rules-based system.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT MANDELA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT).] Reference

They want that rules-based order, which has been managed by the United States, to remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010] Reference

The shadow chancellor's speech appears to be a rejection of Brownite rules-based economics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Americans have an interest in promoting free trade and a rules-based international trading system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Trade Relations With China] Reference

Free and fair rules-based trade is essential for both global economic recovery and for U.S. prosperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Report To Congress] Reference

The U. S.-inspired rules-based global order that has emerged since has enabled Asian economies to thrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Way For The Rise Of Asia] Reference

A rules-based law will do little to deter someone who wishes to be deceptive in their mortgage application.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dov Seidman: Why Values Trump Rules and Regulation] Reference

In an odd turn of events, the need for "rules-based trade" has become the mantra of the era of deregulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naomi Klein: Revisiting No Logo, Ten Years Later] Reference

'As a strong and effective rules-based organisation, the WTO continues to attract membership,' said Mr Crean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Doubles Support for Developing Country Capacity Building at the World Trade Organisation] Reference

We've learned that meeting that challenge requires more than the continued expansion of rules-based open trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President To Abac] Reference

We reaffirmed our very important commitment to an open, rules-based, multilateral regime for trade and investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert L. Borosage: The Debtor's Dance: the U.S.-China Exchange] Reference

Embrace of Doha and platitudes about "open, rules-based" trade, ritual denial of reality surely won't get us there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert L. Borosage: The Debtor's Dance: the U.S.-China Exchange] Reference

Washington should work to ensure their emergence as modern, rules-based countries — and not try to stand in their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fixing Uncle Sam’s Image Problem] Reference

Conservative messages are framed from a rules-based worldview that encourages absolutist, "concrete operational" thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Burnett: Why Isn't There a Left-Wing Conspiracy?] Reference

Others, though, may be too rules-based and the strictures of a traditional path could provide perfect hiding places for ego.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Piver: Are You a Buddhist? You Tell Me] Reference

The President underscored the need for fair, rules-based trade, full enforcement of trade commitments and greater market opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Report To Congress] Reference

The EU needs a credible policy for encouraging Russia to return to the multilateral, rules-based approach it embraced in the 1990s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for a New Energy Policy] Reference

Lamy: Well, that's a very important question, not least to increase the ownership of poor countries of the rules-based trade system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Pascal Lamy] Reference

But you've got a better chance of getting it resolved with people in a rules-based, law-abiding international system than outside it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks On The Benefits Of China Pntr To Americas Farmers] Reference

The current "rules-based regulatory approach" wasn't able to "keep up with the speed and innovation of the financial markets," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CFTC's Chief: 3 Regulators for 2] Reference

The President has made clear that open, rules-based trade is essential for both global economic recovery and continued U.S. prosperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background On The State Of The Union] Reference

Accessions offer an opportunity to help ground new economies in the rules-based trading system and reinforce their own reform programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Security Strategy For New Century] Reference

Joining a "rules-based" international organization, with clear standards and dispute-settlement procedures, will promote the rule of law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economics As Statecraft] Reference

The rules-based approach embodied in Europe's Stability and Growth Pact (which was adopted at Germany's behest) has not fared much better.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Model Standing Is France] Reference

Pascal Lamy: Well, that's a very important question, not least to increase the ownership of poor countries of the rules-based trade system.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTO For Africa] Reference

Organisation, as a rules-based system, provides a solid foundation for ensuring that increased flows of both trade and investment bring mutual gain for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT MANDELA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT).] Reference

The problem this time was a blind, almost fundamentalist, faith in rules-based economics - the idea that, if inflation was low, everything else would be fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

China engaging across the board as a major stakeholder in the maintenance and strengthening of a stable, rules-based order is good for China, and good for the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Sinology] Reference

Multilateralism provides a rules-based political, economic and social system, which ensures certainty and predictability, based on the principle of the sovereignty of states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address to The Kuala Lumpur World Peace Conference] Reference

And we think having them in the WTO, in a rules-based organization, has a number of benefits, and there are a number of problems with taking the route of trying to isolate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference