comply
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Groups across the state have been changing their voter outreach work to comply with SB1.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
However, ultimately it will be up to the tech companies to figure out how to implement the checks: the onus is on social network providers to come up with their own solutions and comply.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Firms can face legal action including fines if they do not comply.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The biomass industry was very much ready to comply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Mollie’s parents were warned that if they didn’t comply, the government would withhold its annuity payments, leaving the family starving.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Nvidia has said it complies with applicable export laws and that there is no evidence its chips have been smuggled into China.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The program says it is nonpartisan and works closely with lawyers to ensure that its work complies with the law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Hertz Norge stressed that it complies with Norwegian and European regulations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Instead, the process would become a “checklist” to see if the project complies with existing environmental laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Marguerite lays down the spoon and complies without question.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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The full force of the deal will not take effect until both parties have complied with its closing conditions, which the agreement indicates could happen within months.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Islamic schools in the province complied on Thursday, looking to Allah for relief.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
When one executive noticed and ordered the flowers put back in a particular spot, Perea complied there, then made the same swap a little farther down the hillside, out of view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The British complied, resettling this colorful, undisciplined yet enormously well-informed KGB agent in the north of England under a new identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Luna had instructed the crow to stay out of sight until she could figure things out, and the crow had complied.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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This move by Zuckerberg and Meta gives the lie to the claim that complying with the tax would just be too difficult: Companies would have to be sold, assets liquidated and so on.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Netherlands hopes to insulate the court by activating the European Union’s “blocking statute,” a rule that would ban EU companies from complying with the sanctions and thereby expose them to U.S. secondary sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Retail Motor Industry Federation, which represents thousands of UK forecourts and petrol retailers, said its members were complying.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
It is complying with the Endangered Species Act, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Youths get “positive checks” for complying with the rules, but also for using the interpersonal skills necessary to do well on the outside—skills like asking for help or talking through a conflict.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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