At first, some students have difficulty understanding the difference between rules and norms.

Weights can be used to choose between competing rules.

"There's not much difference between rules and guidelines," he said.

Consider the similarity between helmet rules and workplace safety regulations.

It is generally in the area of the abstraction liberties taken by the designers that the differences between rules can be found.

He focussed on the confusion between cultural habits and religious rules.

The word koto which ends each rule means "thing" and is used as a conjunction between rules.

The more means a country needs to mobilise in order to catch up, the larger the gap becomes between rules and reality.

We must find the optimal solution - the appropriate balance between different rules and common requirements.

Hart identifies three further differences between habits and binding social rules.