- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comply Quotes
Comply is a word that shows up whenever rules meet reality, and these quotes trace that tension across very different scales. One quote describes exhausting diplomatic effort to get a country to comply with its own agreements and international law, with force considered only once diplomacy fails. Another turns to newer ground, questioning whether new blockchain-based funding models comply with existing securities laws at all. A third zooms in on the small producer, someone running a modest operation or feeding a few hundred head of cattle a year, and asks how they are realistically meant to comply with whatever rules eventually apply to them.
These comply quotes show that following the rules looks very different depending on your size and stakes, from a nation weighing diplomacy against enforcement to a small operator just trying to keep up.
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- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different lesson.
- Burdensome
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- Nov 07, 2020
The RFA requires federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small firms, and if significant, consider less burdensome alternatives. Federal agencies sometimes fail to comply at all, or simply 'check the box,' fulfilling the letter of the law, while missing the purpose of the law entirely.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business; that is, it makes them comply with the law, which is actually what we want them to do, but it helps consumers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.
- Difficult Task
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020