Then the plan imposed elaborate rules to prevent waste and abuse of the subsidies.

Iniuria to a slave was the subject of elaborate rules.

The Government has elaborate rules specifying how contracts shall be awarded.

Angelica decides to explore the different designs of the "Policy" in putting up such elaborate rules to be followed.

This is partly because there are elaborate federal rules for protecting sensitive material from disclosure.

The elaborate rules of his will are designed to insulate the news-gathering process from commercial concerns.

Running afoul of the government's elaborate rules for handling paper and computer files can be a serious matter.

As a child, her mom says she made up games with "such elaborate rules I'd be lost halfway through her explanation of them."

In fact, he said, laboratory research has shown that people tend to make up elaborate rules to explain what are actually random events.

Even rather small changes in the elaborate rules governing economic life inevitably provoke spirited opposition from some quarters.