ten-yard rule

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ten-yard rule

(Team Sports / Rugby) Rugby the rule allowing a referee, when a player disputes the award of a penalty or free kick, to penalize the offending side further by moving the place from which the kick is to be taken ten yards further forward

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No references found			And the rugby ten-yard rule for dissent should be used. Letter: Long bans the best deterrent by The Racing Post (London, England) THE TEN-YARD RULE The rule introduced to punish dissent by moving free kicks ten yards closer to the opposition goal has been scrapped. Football: New rules for this season by The Mirror (London, England) Ferguson added: "We have had discussions about the new edicts from the FA, the ten-yard rule, mass confrontations and all that. Football: Fergie warns skipper Keane: Behave by Fletcher, James / The Mirror (London, England)			Temulence temulency Temulent Temulentive ten Ten Commandments ten dollar bill Ten Gurus ten percent ten thousand ten- ten-acre block ten-cent store ten-day fern ten-fold ten-gallon hat ten-membered Ten-o'clock Ten-pounder ten-sided ten-speed ten-spined stickleback ten-spot ten-strike ten-thousandth ten-yard rule ten. tena koe tenability tenable Tenableness tenace tenacious tenaciously tenaciousness tenacity tenaculum Tenacy tenaille Tenaillon tenancy tenant tenant farmer Tenant in capite Tenant in common Tenant saw tenant-in-chief Tenantable tenanted Tenantless tenantry			ten-foot UI Ten-four ten-gallon hat Ten-gallon hats Ten-gauge shotgun Ten-gauge shotgun Ten-gauge shotgun Ten-gauge shotgun Ten-Inch Instrument Manipulator Ten-Inch Playa Ten-k Ten-k Ten-k ten-membered Ten-Minute Non-Spinning Reserve Ten-o'clock Ten-pin bowling Ten-pin bowling Ten-pounder Ten-pounder Ten-sided ten-speed ten-spined stickleback ten-spot Ten-Statement FORTRAN ten-strike ten-strike TEN-T TEN-TELECOM ten-thousandth ten-yard rule Ten-Year Capital Improvement Program Ten-Year Treasury Note ten. Ten15 Tena tena koe tenability tenability tenable tenable Tenable Nessus Certified Professional tenableness tenableness tenably tenably tenace tenaces Tenach tenacious tenacious tenacious tenacious Tenacious D tenaciously tenaciously tenaciously tenaciousness tenaciousness tenaciousness tenacitas

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