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

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