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

He was not of the jealous race of those who "Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne"; nor of the temper of George III., who chose his ministers for their vacuous compliancy.

From The Americanism of Washington by Van Dyke, Henry

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)