Given the new king's lesser experience and stature, he will find it hard to rule in such a hands-on manner.
Given that the Shia majority appears to have been the target in many of the latest attacks, it is hard to rule out a sectarian motive.
Should he refuse to adopt a balanced-budget rule it is hard to imagine Mrs Merkel taking him to court.
Because it is peer to peer and uses an encryption scheme it is very hard to write a simple rule for blocking it.
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However, given the full extent of unrealized bad debts in Europe, it is hard to see why anyone should rule out depositor levies being imposed elsewhere in the future.
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While it is hard to predict how the FCC will rule, we do think this is the first shot by DISH in what could be a long and messy court battle for Clearwire.
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However behind the scenes product peddling financial firms with large salesforces have been lobbying hard to make sure that the fiduciary rule, which would require your stock broker to act your best interest and disclose conflicts, is either watered down or eliminated from the final legislation.
They were hard to substantiate, and fear seemed to rule the day.
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Putting aside the logic of the Ninth Circuit's new rule, its prescriptions seem hard to follow.
But with the Washington rumor mill saying Clinton will appoint her Chief Justice if Rehnquist retires, it could be a hard time for any judge in her position to rule against the President in a major case.
There is no hard-and-fast decision rule or trigger mechanism to which he or she must adhere in deciding whether supply conditions in the oil market justify an intervention.
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In retrospect, you know, I thought it was such a hard rule because it took me a long time to find a buyer, but it worked out because they didn't have trouble qualifying for a loan.
While he knows that the recipe for brand success includes having a simple idea and executing it with discipline and laser focus, he and his team also know that another rule for brand success is to look hard, very hard, at what the competition is doing before establishing a differentiating idea on which to stake a claim.
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Though there is no hard rule that committee chairmen allow minority-view witnesses to testify, it does happen.
Yet, no sooner had the demonstrators folded up their banners this week than he announced exceptions to the new rule, for farmers and other hard labourers.
The manufacturers have hard on a slew of lobbyists to convince Congress that the Medicare payment rule needs to be changed back so that doctors can use their clinical judgment for that mid-level anemia.
Asia's smart bankers follow a hard-nosed, market-led rule of thumb: Use technology to reach the client.
This is most certainly not a hard-and-fast rule, in general I've found it to be accurate.
The committee is evaluating Novartis's offer and has yet to rule on whether it thinks it fair, though it is hard to imagine it will do so.
And with the single-make trye rule as well, it is close, hard racing, and all down to talent.
Although some leading Vatican cardinals have opened personal Twitter accounts, they are the exception rather than the rule within the Holy See, which traditionally commits all important communications to hard copy.
While not a hard-and-fast rule, she says, women are more likely than men to get swept into a partnership by personal affinity for someone without looking at the business reasons for partnership.
According to Robert Smith, the BBBC general secretary, there is no hard-and-fast rule preventing 28-year-old Robb from holding a licence.
Although it may be hard to rouse conservatives to action right now since they don't know how the court will rule, it's better to be ready than not.
He is now competing against his cousin Ghazan Khan, a political newcomer whose affiliation with a hard-line religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami, could be the exception to the rule when it comes to party ideology trumping family ties.
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It's probably hard to plan a year off if your wits have been dulled by the Uniform Commercial Code and the Rule Against Perpetuities.
Such a rule would, for example, have made it very hard for RBS and its ilk to become quite so huge - and therefore quite so expensive to bail out for taxpayers.
There is no hard and fast rule about how often and how long one must engage in self-affirmation for it to work.
This is one reason why Apple and Google are finding it hard to crack the enterprise world, while uncool companies such as Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, and IBM rule them.
Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.
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