In 1999, the pope did waive the five-year rule, allowing the canonization process to begin.

Chinese students have grown more and more resourceful in their efforts to evade the five-year rule.

He criticises the government's own forward-looking rolling five-year fiscal rule, but will not at this stage offer an alternative.

Today the agency reaffirmed the five-year rule but dropped a requirement that cable operators provide the switching devices.

Most other business owners complaining about the five-year rule said it required too long a commitment given their uncertain prospects.

If both turn state's evidence, the five-year rule applies.

During the Taliban's five-year rule, women in Afghanistan were essentially put under house arrest.

Arbitrarily separating the illegal immigrant population with a five-year rule would be cruel.

By 1945, under the five-year rule of Swiss law, the rightful owners no longer had a valid legal claim.

"How long have you had this five-year rule?"