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  • Metal dog tags were confiscated, in an apparent effort to comply with the stipulation that those executing POWs "not …. leave any traces."†   (source)
  • Chris would comply with the rule, but as soon as his shift was over, bang! the first thing he'd do is peel those socks off.†   (source)
  • I was tired of being held accountable for her lapses, her failures to comply.†   (source)
  • They whined but complied, one after another.†   (source)
  • The Count expressed his comprehension and willingness to comply.†   (source)
  • These were quirks, and at first I understood them as little more than strict rules that I could either comply with or get around.†   (source)
  • She told me about how he and his fellow soldiers were intimidated, arrested, and beaten for failing to comply with government rules about carrying personal identification cards.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.†   (source)
  • They are very straightforward, and you shouldn't have a hard time complying.†   (source)
  • The Court had justified reauthorization of the death penalty in the mid-1970s on the promise that proceedings would be subject to heightened scrutiny and meticulous compliance with the law but then began to retreat from the existing review procedures.†   (source)
  • Percy was a great believer in rigidly following rules, and Mr. Crouch had complied with the rule about Muggle dressing so thoroughly that he could have passed for a bank manager; Harry doubted even Uncle Vernon would have spotted him for what he really was.†   (source)
  • He's reached the limits of his compliance.†   (source)
  • He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way.†   (source)
  • I will collect them from you individually when the bell rings, and I will inspect to see that you have complied with the following instructions.†   (source)
  • Yet she radiated a certain compliance; she looked as easy to get along with as my mother.†   (source)
  • My kind of feudal compliance was what still kept India an unhealthy and backward nation.†   (source)
  • Only compliance.†   (source)
  • I pulled my wheeled luggage to the cab door and leaned in through the open window as I said: "I would like the number of your taxi license and to see proof of your compliance with brake and headlight adjustment requirements."†   (source)
  • He forced compliance by leaning against me as we walked along, changing my direction; like a police car squeezing me to the side of the road, he directed me unwillingly toward the gym and the river.†   (source)
  • The older girl entered so fully into the spirit of her own aloof compliance that she felt beyond reproach.†   (source)
  • Followers of Black Imagination would have to be monitored; members of the population addicted to artificial crystal or imagination stimulants rehabilitated; those thriving by corrupt business practices would comply with more ethical modes of professional conduct or be shut down.†   (source)
  • The magnetron complies, forcing the bars into an open 0 wide enough to step through.†   (source)
  • He bent over as if to comply but faked away from me and tried to run.†   (source)
  • Ratwatte continued: "All the guys had to do was tell the controller, 'We don't have the fuel to comply with what you are trying to do/ All they had to do was say, 'We can't do that.†   (source)
  • Though we can't deny the possibility of some Lunars being smuggled in under our radar, I can promise that we've done everything in our power to comply with the Interplanetary Agreement.†   (source)
  • And you're a badge of public shame, because at every step you interfere with their efforts at assimilation into normal complying society.†   (source)
  • Random street checks — non-compliance punished.†   (source)
  • They comply without question.†   (source)
  • But there was another reason for Foaly's silent compliance.†   (source)
  • And I happily complied.†   (source)
  • Murtagh warily complied, his eyes darting between the Twins and Ajihad.†   (source)
  • War wasn't a foregone conclusion—Saddam Hussein could have complied and shown inspectors everything they wanted to see.†   (source)
  • The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying.†   (source)
  • Ruth thought that was an odd request, but she complied, mailing him scanned copies of the photo of LuLing and GaoLing with their mother when they were young, and another taken when LuLing first arrived in the United States.†   (source)
  • I comply.†   (source)
  • The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and— incidentally-exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.†   (source)
  • I gave him a dirty look as I complied.†   (source)
  • Everyone in the school knew who he was—he was the biggest human being anyone had ever seen—and they tried to engage him, but he refused to comply.†   (source)
  • We don't say yes, or right: away, or thanks a lot, or understand and will comply.†   (source)
  • He seemed to understand this, and when I told him to stop-and even for me, it was always hard-he complied, the only protest a little bit of grumbling into my neck as his hands moved back up into the safe zone.†   (source)
  • Cheerfully, she complied.†   (source)
  • Francis complied.†   (source)
  • Beloved didn't move; said, "Do it," and Sethe complied.†   (source)
  • It was the way he wanted it, and I complied.†   (source)
  • The number of OSHA inspectors was eventually cut by 20 percent, and in 1981 the agency adopted a new policy of "voluntary compliance."†   (source)
  • In surprise, he complied.†   (source)
  • Latha complied without hesitation.†   (source)
  • Since you wish me to be brief, I will do my best to comply.†   (source)
  • The first German decrees carrying the death penalty for failure to comply were posted up.†   (source)
  • Dalton hesitated and then complied.†   (source)
  • After a moment Chronicler complied, wiping the nib of the pen on a clean cloth before setting it down.†   (source)
  • All spotters are ordered to comply.†   (source)
  • Everyone complied except for Minerva and Sina.†   (source)
  • On an equally flimsy excuse he complied.†   (source)
  • All around, you saw these signals of neglect, as if the camp itself were slowly, deliberately disintegrating in order to comply with the administration's deadline.†   (source)
  • To comply with discovery rules, Jordan handed Diana a synopsis of Josie's testimony as she was walking up to the stand.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Taser ball was in no shape to comply.†   (source)
  • But I complied with his orders, confident that my parents would not actually follow through on Moody's demands.†   (source)
  • I explained how as a lawyer I was often forced to choose between compliance with the law and accommodating my conscience.†   (source)
  • He saw her surprise and then her quick nod of comprehension as she complied.†   (source)
  • And he hastened to comply.†   (source)
  • And here she was, complying again, carrying out the instructions they had given her.†   (source)
  • "He is merely astounded by my good humor, Gen," explained the magus, "and my ready compliance to your grumpy requests."†   (source)
  • He raised his daughter to make her own fate, to be a worthy individual outside compliance with religious rites, and he loved her, she lives in Vermont now, very much.†   (source)
  • But in that situation, complying with the will of the brothel owner does not signify consent.†   (source)
  • Their fear subsiding, they complied.†   (source)
  • Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.†   (source)
  • "We comply with all pertinent environmental regulations," Johnson said automatically.†   (source)
  • The whole area was bad guys; we expected zero compliance from anybody.†   (source)
  • The driver complied, smashing into the Carl Hayden robot.†   (source)
  • I did feel different: larger, fuller, more complete, no longer divided against myself—compulsion to comply against wish to refuse.†   (source)
  • "I need to," he said, and for once his body complied and was quiet.†   (source)
  • With what you have, his compliance would be totally voluntary.†   (source)
  • He then said a score of things to frighten me into complying, but he might as well have been talking to the walls.†   (source)
  • She ordered Yossarian to get right back into his bed and blocked his path so he couldn't comply.†   (source)
  • Still, Mama was not happy with my compliance.†   (source)
  • When that rumor was supplemented by the rumor that the authorities had requested a statement of self-criticism from him, no one doubted he would comply.†   (source)
  • She complied and stepped into the hall beyond.†   (source)
  • Buckley complied and stood rather helplessly, quite alone, humiliated and defeated.†   (source)
  • All but Ricardo and Norberto complied.†   (source)
  • "Give me your memories of the incident in the temple," Mianaai commanded, and I complied.†   (source)
  • My fingers a-tremble, I complied, smelling the fresh leather and finding an official-looking document inside.†   (source)
  • As Reed explained, Washington had "expressed himself to me in such terms that I thought myself bound by every tie of duty and honor to comply with his request to help him through the sea of difficulties."†   (source)
  • "Tough joint," the cabbie muttered, but Eve merely shrugged and complied.†   (source)
  • The pharmacist complied rapidly, and Jason quickly drove to a neighborhood bar he had chosen an hour before should one be necessary.†   (source)
  • He attracted attention with his report on organizational deficiencies within legal security, where he made a case for increased efficiency rather than complying with the requests for increased resources demanded by certain police authorities.†   (source)
  • Her parents' relationship had long been a mystery to her, a complicated world where dominance and compliance were never quite what they seemed.†   (source)
  • I'm glad I realized that, otherwise, I was going to have Jeremy Foley, Florida's athletic director, or Jamie McCloskey, UF's associate athletic director for compliance, at my door for taking "improper benefits."†   (source)
  • Once Max complied, he felt something warm being placed delicately on his chest.†   (source)
  • She was so warm and generous, never neglecting to give him a hug before they parted, and so sure that this document would help, that he decided to comply.†   (source)
  • J. Edgar Hoover, who like LBJ had felt personally humiliated by the Kennedys during JFK's time in office, was only too happy to comply.†   (source)
  • It's not clear whether he'll comply.†   (source)
  • She submitted in the manner of complying with the rule that it was, at times, her duty to become an inanimate object turned over to her husband's use.†   (source)
  • There was still the residue of the system and the halfhearted compliance to the system, which was in effect until the last week of school and the recognition ceremony.†   (source)
  • But the British made a major mistake-they did not include a legitimate mechanism in the treaty to ensure Spanish compliance.†   (source)
  • The girl complied and the rest of them began to disrobe.†   (source)
  • Coastal towns were supposed to be darkened in fear of naval bombardment, but they never complied absolutely.†   (source)
  • I rush to comply, since Shari doesn't like having her orders disobeyed.†   (source)
  • Non-Compliance vs. Active Resistance†   (source)
  • He complied with the feeling and watched in amazement as the dimension within the depths of one of the mirrors in the room suddenly swirled in a gray fog.†   (source)
  • "Stand by your seat, ser." Kettleblack complied.†   (source)
  • Socrates, in Plato's account, points to his refusal to comply with the Tyrants' order that he bring in Leon of Salamis for summary execution.†   (source)
  • I wondered what might happen if I refused to comply with his request.†   (source)
  • I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal—a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.†   (source)
  • She hesitated but complied.†   (source)
  • "You seem to be in compliance with all applicable regulations," the customs bot said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Now, as the time grew short, I felt I should at least make a gesture of compliance to authority.†   (source)
  • Let me comply with you in this garb, lest my extent to the players (which I tell you must show fairly outwards) should more appear like entertainment than yours.†   (source)
  • The stores had to comply, and this was so successful in Chicago that the techniques spread across the country.†   (source)
  • Sophie, who is shy enough anyway, detests being forced to perform for Durrfeld, but, smiling a twisted embarrassed smile, complies, speaking at her father's command in Swabian, then in the indolent cadences of Bavaria, now in the tones of a native of Dresden, of Frankfurt, quickly followed by the Low German sound of a Saxon from Hannover and at last—aware that the desperation shows in her own eyes—blurting out an imitation of some quaint denizen of the Schwarzwald.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to imagine her meeting with anything less than compliance.†   (source)
  • Since a Suggestion from the Master is a Command not unlike Holy Writ, I shall digress and comply at the same Time.†   (source)
  • I am in a better position than most to be aware of the fact that there was not perfect compliance with the registration statute some years ago.†   (source)
  • The boys complied.†   (source)
  • Turn your profile to the audience…… [Like a fool, Davies complied] ….†   (source)
  • I rather absurdly concluded, knowing not with what possible threat to try to frighten his immobility into compliance.   (source)
    compliance = conforming to rules or the wishes of others
  • They seemed relieved, and happy to comply.†   (source)
  • She complied, and I asked her simply, "Are you happy?"†   (source)
  • Unlocking this door is essentially complying with the demands of a terrorist.†   (source)
  • The girl's compliance had to be an absolute, immutable fact.†   (source)
  • I can assure you it is imperative we comply with this man's demands quickly."†   (source)
  • Then he downed Essay—who, to his amazement, complied—and he wrapped both arms around her.†   (source)
  • Compliance with the League rules, for heaven's sake.†   (source)
  • On one hand, we have to comply with the elves' wishes if we want to keep them as allies.†   (source)
  • The troll complied, keeling over with almost comical stiffness.†   (source)
  • Any failure to comply on your part will result in your immediate removal from the Selection.†   (source)
  • To Rudy's credit, he was happy enough to comply.†   (source)
  • The restaurant's patrons complied, leaning in to see the small silver ball.†   (source)
  • He complied with Gunilla's order, though his eyes blazed.†   (source)
  • With no choice but to comply, Eve ordered Peabody off duty until eight and swung by her own office.†   (source)
  • Although they will sound off their objections, they will comply.†   (source)
  • He would have invoked the trialeven if I had complied with his demands .†   (source)
  • The man glanced at the DA, then slowly complied.†   (source)
  • Miss Wren was shouting, begging us to comply—"Do as they say or they'll hurt you!"†   (source)
  • The summons to Beijing had to be complied with and he is careless.†   (source)
  • We trust you will comply in the most expeditious fashion.†   (source)
  • When she complied, the man reached over and took the key out of the ignition.†   (source)
  • The father complied, and the young man left home and squandered all his money in "wild living."†   (source)
  • He complied because he thought we were hapless fools.†   (source)
  • Smith said that complying with such a demand was up to Howard.†   (source)
  • He'd failed to comply with BoneMan's demands and now Bethany would pay the price.†   (source)
  • Taking Mahtob away was his last resort to gain my compliance with his plans for our life.†   (source)
  • The older man obviously had faith that the impressive young warrior could comply with the demands.†   (source)
  • Of course, Elder Sister and Beautiful Moon complied.†   (source)
  • The British complied, giving the Spanish over £400,000 sterling.†   (source)
  • I am complying with the system which they have established.†   (source)
  • Shiboru looked confused, but I pointed at the cabinet and he complied.†   (source)
  • But I do have Benjamin's word that they will make a show of compliance, at least for the time being.†   (source)
  • COMPLIANCE, and DIRECT and ACTIVE RESISTANCE.†   (source)
  • There was some grumbling, but in the end they all complied, even the werecat.†   (source)
  • Almost inconceivably, Pickering refused to comply.†   (source)
  • What could be so urgent that the Jackal will comply?†   (source)
  • If he doesn't comply with the demands we ve received, this country will cease to exist.†   (source)
  • "If you don't comply within forty-eight hours, the Station Guard will escort you back on-planet.†   (source)
  • The kid was quick to comply and Archie was pleased at his submissiveness.†   (source)
  • Some people said that States would comply because of our common interests.†   (source)
  • The stewards complied, and Greenberg stumbled back to the Howard barn.†   (source)
  • Eragon and Arya complied without question.†   (source)
  • She would comply with his instructions for obvious reasons.†   (source)
  • If he wants a factual demonstration, I shall comply.†   (source)
  • I ask the heavyset nurse if she'll excuse us for a moment, and she complies with a hard grunt.†   (source)
  • Pressure to comply with Svensson's demands will become astronomical.†   (source)
  • BoneMan would be watching and would bring her in only if and when Ryan complied with his demands.†   (source)
  • Whatever message he's carrying is nothing short of an order that has to be complied with.'†   (source)
  • Bernardine complied, reciting the number he had written down on Bourne's instructions.†   (source)
  • Max complied, easing slowly down and laying the lymrill beside him.†   (source)
  • And if Carlos judged the American correctly, Hunter would comply to protect the girl.†   (source)
  • The United States is preparing to comply.†   (source)
  • And twelve States have already complied with the plan of Congress.†   (source)
  • He complied, telling himself that she was proud of him in her own way.†   (source)
  • Her hands were clasped, her face attentive as though seeking to agree, to comply.†   (source)
  • I am merely complying with the system which my fellow men have established.†   (source)
  • Her face was red, but she complied by leaning a few inches.†   (source)
  • The Russians are complying with Paris because they are in bed with Paris.†   (source)
  • No. I am complying with the law-to the letter.†   (source)
  • He seemed eager to comply; he rose at once and hurried out of the room.†   (source)
  • She wished to be seen with her husband; he was complying.†   (source)
  • I had no desire to be beaten unconscious again, so I complied.†   (source)
  • Star complied, chanting different words and more detail.†   (source)
  • Looked at objectively, what's been going on between them, despite her evident anxiety over the murders and her surface compliance, has been a contest of wills.†   (source)
  • "In order to comply with these demands, I ask that everyone make their way to the Gathering Place to report whether you have an implant or not," he says.†   (source)
  • She gave lip service to the world: she went through the motions of complying with the regulations governing the behavior of teenaged girls from good families; she developed a halfway interest in clothes, boys, hairdos, gossip, and female aspirations; but she was uneasy all the time she was away from the security of those who she knew loved her.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun complied.†   (source)
  • The wolf complied.†   (source)
  • We have been injecting every Dauntless throughout the day, and I assume all other factions will comply as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • They might think of rebellion, but as soon as they're in her presence, she brainwashes them into compliance again."†   (source)
  • According to later reports, Spanish spec-op troops went in after the freighter failed to comply with the frigate's orders to stop.†   (source)
  • And then a couple of more voices added their good wishes to our dictator, until what had been a scared compliance became, by the exaggeration of repetition, a joke.†   (source)
  • OSHA's voluntary compliance policy did indeed reduce the number of recorded injuries in meatpacking plants.†   (source)
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