41. Speaker Arthur Peel responded that under procedural rules any amendment was permitted as long as Parliament permitted it. 42. She is by-the-book, and is reluctant to bend procedural rules , unlike Det. 43. Only after the federal judge in the case made a procedural ruling in her favor did Forbes let up. 44. There is strong opposition to that in the Senate, where Democrats can use procedural rules to block passage. 45. Assistant U . S . Attorney Tom Hannis told Carroll that prosecutors were attempting to follow local procedural rules . 46. The new Senate majority will keep its long-standing procedural rules that give Bullock strong power over legislation. 47. State courts turned down his appeal, saying he did not follow procedural rules in seeking a trial delay. 48. The government said its hands were tied, because television licenses are federal concessions subject to complex procedural rules . 49. Conceptually, civil law proceeds from abstractions, formulates general principles, and distinguishes substantive rules from procedural rules . 50. This gave the Supreme Court, for the first time, one complete, integral body of procedural rules .