Sample Sentences for
compliant
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

compliant as in:  compliant with the law

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The company was fined for not being regulation 4.3 compliant.
compliant = in conformity with rules (i.e., in a state where no rules are violated)
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    He hated running, but the applause was intoxicating, and the prospect of more was just enough incentive to keep him marginally compliant.  (source)
    compliant = conforming to rules and instructions
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    They're ashamed of having come from noncompliant families.  (source)
    noncompliant = not conforming to rules
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncompliant means not and reverses the meaning of compliant. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    One of our shooters was about to cap him for noncompliance.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncompliance means not and reverses the meaning of compliance. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    The whitecoat looked surprised at my noncompliance-obviously he hadn't read all of our case notes.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncompliance means not and reverses the meaning of compliance. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Families were separated, noncompliant villages burned, and those who disobeyed the brutal security apparatus, the Force Publique, had their right hands chopped off, or worse.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncompliant means not and reverses the meaning of compliant. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    However, there is an important difference between NONCOMPLIANCE, and DIRECT and ACTIVE RESISTANCE.†  (source)
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    Your father denies his Polish ancestry, since Poland is still a noncompliant nation, and under international sanction because of it.  (source)
    noncompliant = not conforming to rules
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    Along the way doctors had accused her of "noncompliance," and her son had died of tb, more than likely from a strain of the disease that he'd caught from her.†  (source)
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    The annals of international health contain many stories of adequately financed projects that failed because "noncompliant" patients didn't take all their medicines.†  (source)
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    State Noncompliance Leads to Civil War†  (source)
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    About three hours after we'd set out, we arrived at the hut of the noncompliant patient, another shack made of rough-sawn palm wood with a roof of banana fronds and a cooking fire of the kind Haitians call "three rocks."†  (source)
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    In those trials it had seemed that most treatment failures arose because of patients' noncompliance—because they hadn't taken all their pills, not because they were infected with highly drug-resistant strains.†  (source)
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    But you're also a badge of cowardice, because they dare not go further and practice the noncompliance they still feel is right.  (source)
    noncompliance = conforming to rules (following the rules)
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compliant as in:  a compliant individual

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When the President is popular, the legislature tends to be compliant.
compliant = obeying rules or doing what others want
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    He realized that his mother wasn't the compliant woman he had known before.  (source)
    compliant = having a tendency to obey rules or do what others want
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    Still, to be too compliant may arouse suspicion as well.  (source)
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    Her temperament was compliant.  (source)
    compliant = tending to do what others want
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    She had always been the docile middle child, used to following the lead. Next to an alto she sang alto, by a soprano, soprano. Miss Sonrisa, cheerful, compliant. Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her.  (source)
    compliant = tending to do what others want
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    The chaplain looked down at the open magazine compliantly and saw an editorial spread dealing with an American bomber group in England whose chaplain said prayers in the briefing room before each mission.†  (source)
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    They get a ready supply of compliant low-cost workers.  (source)
    compliant = tending to do what others (their bosses) want
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    Be kind enough, then, madame, to act more compliantly.†  (source)
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    ...they were more compliant than American workers, less likely to file workers' compensation claims or to support union organizing drives.  (source)
    compliant = likely to do what others (bosses) wanted
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    Unlike her compliant older brother, Sonia, seven months old, refuses all the food.  (source)
    compliant = doing what others want
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    Washington, with the help of a generally compliant mainstream American press, was busily denouncing Aristide, even manufacturing lies about him,  (source)
    compliant = tending to do what others (Washington) wanted
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    He quickly became compliant, not wanting any more.†  (source)
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    Whether truly loyal or merely desperate, a compliant river lord might have his uses.†  (source)
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    Frustrated, Shamron rang a compliant journalist and told him— anonymously, of course—that a change in leadership at the Office was imminent, days rather than weeks.†  (source)
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