However, there are exceptions to this, so it is not an absolute rule.

Once again Thailand had been returned to absolute military rule.

He could also develop his own idea of a more 'absolute' rule.

They in effect controlled both supply and demand by their absolute rule.

I don't think that's an absolute rule, but certainly as a general matter.

It is an absolute rule of modern politics that women will not vote for men who look as if they're going to yell at them.

But it is far from being an absolute rule.

We can't force everyone to express themselves through the same absolute rules.

"We don't have a set of absolute rules as do some other churches."

There are, of course, no absolute rules in art.