It's time to go above these rule-bound reps' heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [T-Mobile Doesn't Believe That You Moved To England - The Consumerist] Reference

International Montessoris are much more rigid and rule-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Montessori, Or Not To Montessori | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Is there anything more rule-bound than a legislative process?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beatings will continue until morale improves] Reference

The Senate is rule-bound, it is tradition-bound, it is seniority-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2008] Reference

All I care about is that my candidate lost in a fair rule-bound election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama celebrates with Clinton backers] Reference

Of course, rule-bound judges still pay attention to results and consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Like Spain, Greece is shaking up its stodgy, rule-bound practices on hiring and firing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debt Crisis Pushes Reform In Europe] Reference

Pythagoras and his rule-bound, ritualistic sect arrive on scene in the sixth century B.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Hail the Hypotenuse] Reference

And you have an administration that wants to establish a rule-bound international order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's agenda, Israel's ambitions often at odds] Reference

He seemed too fussy and rule-bound, perhaps not the ideal choice for a medievallike country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

Hiring is complex and rule-bound; managers can't explain to applicants how to get federal jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report On Human Resource Management Part] Reference

Even if you're writing free verse it's a totally rule-bound environment when you're writing poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Poet-Critic Dan Chiasson, the Natural (AUDIO)] Reference

It does not require or even recommend a rule-bound character devoid of the warmth of human emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Moral Philosophy] Reference

Jason Schneider Perhaps no other consumer-service business is so rule-bound as the airline industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Airlines Make the Rules] Reference

Planting a meadow, it turns out, is as rule-bound and time-consuming as planting any perennial border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

China, however, is a rule-bound terrain on which rational technocracy is prized more than conceptual adventurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Managing China: Stimulating Creativity in a Sea of Convention] Reference

The system is so complex and rule-bound that managers are unable to explain to applicants how to get a federal job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report On Human Resource Management Part] Reference

The system is so complex and rule-bound that most managers cannot even advise an applicant how to get a federal job.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Performance Review Report Chapter] Reference

With its tight, centralized control, it epitomizes the industrial-era program: hierarchical, rule-bound, and bureaucratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Performance Review Report Chapter] Reference

Great Regulars: Because he acquires flickers of a right-brain consciousness that conflict with his rule-bound programming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

Bureaucratic authority is rule-bound, then, and governed by a drive to enforce consistency across otherwise singular cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning, Games, and Bureaucracy] Reference

Relatedly, are you saying that there can never be, for example, a truly great haiku, because haiku is a rule-bound artform?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHEN THE BAR HAS NO LOWER TO GO ... CHOICES*] Reference

Flandry had met his kind by the scores, career administrators, conscientious but rule-bound and inclined to self-importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

Now it was her turn to laugh, his very wry and understated description of rule-bound hospital staff sounding horribly familiar!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

And besides, being the rule-bound person that I am, I would only eat store-bought squashed flies if I were on a long car journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garibaldi Biscuits | Baking Bites] Reference

The result: science does more to show how mysterious and marvelous our universe is than to show how rule-bound and obvious it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apology of a Madman] Reference

Yes, the aversion of the administration to any sort of accountability for its actions does strain belief in rule-bound capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirk-Style Inhumane Trade] Reference

There is a tendency - unless the emigration group is that of some close-knit religious sect-to be less rule-bound on a frontier world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dread Companion]

'Parties to decide on President's rule-bound Jharkhand'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Why did this rule-bound soul not reply as a human being?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durangoherald.com] Reference

But a rule-bound bureaucracy will not allow this to happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Greece is shaking up its stodgy, rule-bound practices on hiring and firing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference

By being a little too rule-bound, she assigns a girl a part that girl doesn't like.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Senate, which is run more by tradition and convention than the heavily rule-bound House.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

Utopias give you an "interchangeable part," with a fixed number, in a rule-bound organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

In "Sheen," it's a huge issue, as rule-bound Romans try to make freer Orthodox convert en masse.    From Wordnik.com.  [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference