A hostile work environment is created by a boss or coworker whose actions, communication or behavior make doing your job impossible. 1  This means that the behavior altered the terms, conditions, and/or reasonable expectations of a comfortable work environment for employees.
11. to exercise dominating power, authority, or influence over; govern: to rule a kingdom. 12. to decide or declare judicially or authoritatively; decree. 13. to mark with lines, esp. parallel straight lines, with the aid of a ruler or the like: to rule paper. 14. to mark out or form (a line) by this method.
A government of laws and not of men. In other words, the U.S. government and its officials are subject to recognized and enforced limits to their powers The limits are spelled in the Constitution. The rule of law forces leaders to act according to the law and hold them accountable when they do not.