compliancy

Example Sentences

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Even by the lenient standards of pop stardom, there’s always been a cotton candy-like vagueness where Britney’s center should be, an alarming compliancy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2016

For the online gambling sector, this has resulted in higher compliancy costs and taxes.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2015

The new Edge rendering engine is designed to be modern, so there’s no support for ActiveX controls and rendered pages should be a lot more compatible thanks to more standards compliancy.

From The Verge • Mar. 31, 2015

Yet from the sin of a weak compliancy in the unwise decrees of others he cannot be justly acquitted.

From Ireland Since Parnell by Sheehan, D. D. (Daniel Desmond)

What my fears principally took their rise from, was a sort of compliancy, on the part of those in power and authority, to cultivate the old relations and parts between them and the commonalty.

From The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by Galt, John