Word Finder - compliance

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An act of complying.

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The state of being compliant.

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The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.

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A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility

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The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan

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The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.

If you are in compliance with the law, you must prove it!

The company was in compliance with the various safety regulations.

Compliance audits were held throughout the company.

For this report Miss Sullivan prepared, in reluctant compliance with the request of Mr. Anagnos, an account of her work.

After making the changes, the lawmakers have never apologized for the lack of clarity in the procedures for regulatory compliance.

The annual report is in compliance with specific accounting requirements.

In 134 famine compelled John Hyrcanus, who had succeeded his father Simon, to a belated compliance with the king's demands.

The new rules were becoming a compliance burden.

You must be in compliance with export laws and not associated with countries the USA considers naughty, like Cuba.

The appointed stewards for the meeting ensure compliance from all present.

Local distribution company compliance is required for connection of the renewable generator to the national grid.

Member solutions and services within this directory have been approved and compliance tested to assure interoperability.

However, it is important to verify this information before signing up for any online class to ensure compliance with the law.

The IRS online resource for small businesses and self-employed individuals has a wealth of information about tax regulations and compliance.

This occurs either through poorly designed assessment tasks or through the existence of an overly intrusive regime of compliance.

The technologies developed for treating leachate have evolved to achieve compliance with increasingly strict discharge consent limits.

Nine out of ten funds said their compliance staffing levels rose last year.

This is a blatant lie and misleading as European Regulation once agreed by the Commission MUST be implemented into National compliance.

Even if minority families agree to accept Arab nationality, their compliance is often only a prelude to further persecution.

The costs of compliance in respect of the threshold is likely to be cost neutral in many respects.

Should the Inspector uphold the enforcement notice, the period for compliance will be stated.

Compliance was affirmed by determination of serum phospholipid fatty acids.

Then it says the secretary-general is determined to secure full compliance with UN decisions.

Informal means (a letter, tear-off slip ), will always be tried to achieve compliance before invoking formal procedures.

Have procedures and policies been developed to ensure compliance with applicable statutes or regulations?

These competencies help clients enable sustainable, long-term and cost-effective compliance strategies that can also improve overall process value and effectiveness.

Against this further compliance with Henry's wishes Warham drew up a protest; he likened the action of Henry VIII.

His compliance did not save him from suspicion, which was especially aroused by the friendship of his eldest son, the duke of Chartres, with Dumouriez, and when the news of the desertion of Chartres with Dumouriez became known at Paris all the Bourbons left in France, including Egalite, were ordered to be arrested on the 5th of April.

In return for this compliance, the emperor delivered over to the pope his troublesome rival Arnold of Brescia, who was burned alive by Nicholas Breakspear, the only English successor of St Peter.

His mother, between domestic cares and constant infirmities (which, however, did not prevent an occasional plunge into fashionable dissipation in compliance with her husband's wishes), did but little for him.

It was published partly in compliance with his father's wishes, who thought that the proof of some literary talent might introduce him favourably to public notice, and secure the recommendation of his friends for some appointment in connexion with the mission of the English plenipotentiaries to the congress at Augsburg which was at that time in contemplation.

In compliance with this request he produced the able Memoire justificatif, composed in French, and delivered to the courts of Europe; and shortly afterwards he received a seat at the Board of Trade and Plantations - little more than a sinecure in itself, but with a very substantial salary of nearly Boo per annum.

His subsequent advance to the kingship over Judah and Israel at Jerusalem is represented as due to the weak condition of Israel, facilitated by the compliance of Abner; partly, also, to the long-expressed wish of the Israelites that their old hero should reign over them.

They often lived on terms of intimacy either with the head of the house or its younger members; but it is to be feared that too often this intimacy was founded, not on mutual respect, as in the heroic example of Ulysses and Eumaeus, but on insolent self-assertion on the one side and a spirit of unworthy compliance on the other, the latter having its raison d'être in degrading services rendered by the slave.

Protected by this dynasty, the priesthood developed into a completely organized state church, which was able to employ the power of the state in enforcing strict compliance with the religious law-book hitherto enjoined by their unaided efforts only.

All this has now been changed, and the above regulations are conscientiously carried out with the differences in procedure necessary for compliance with constitutional methods, and with the submission of the Budget to the houses of parliament.

It is 1 Thus some of the additions to Daniel and the Prayer of Manasses are most probably derived from a Semitic original written in Palestine, yet in compliance with the prevailing opinion they are classed under Hellenistic Jewish literature.

He refused, however, to yield to the influence of Burnet and Tillotson, who endeavoured to make him grant the unlawfulness of resistance, although it is more than probable that compliance in this would have saved his life.

Both his father and his uncle William Campbell, who had together founded an important drapery business in Glasgow, left him considerable fortunes; and he assumed the name of Bannerman in 1872, in compliance with the provisions of the will of his maternal uncle, Henry Bannerman, from whom he inherited a large property in Kent.

In compliance with this feeling a royal edict (January 18, 1409) was issued, by which, in alleged conformity with Paris usage, and with the original charter of the university, the Bohemian "nation" received three votes, while only one was allotted to the other three "nations" combined; whereupon all the foreigners, to the number of several thousands, almost immediately withdrew from Prague, an occurrence which led to the formation shortly afterwards of the university of Leipzig.

The Turkish Government saw nothing for it but compliance with Albanian demands, at least in form; and on Aug.

Soon after the close of the Civil War he was sent on a confidential mission to Colombia to secure its compliance with a treaty agreement (of 1846) permitting the United States to convey troops across the Isthmus of Panama.

It is evidently planned in compliance with the Benedictine rule, which enjoined that, if possible, the monastery should contain within itself every necessary of life, as well as the buildings more intimately connected with the religious and social life of its inmates.

She despatched to France a special envoy, the bishop of Dumblane, with instructions setting forth at length the unparalleled and hitherto ill-requited services and merits of Bothwell, and the necessity of compliance at once with his passion and with the unanimous counsel of the nation - a people who would endure the rule of no foreign consort, and whom none of their own countrymen were so competent to control, alike by wisdom and by valour, as the incomparable subject of her choice.

In October Cecil had an interview with Mary at Chatsworth, when the conditions of her possible restoration to the throne in compliance with French demands were debated at length.

In the crisis of the second Punic War (205 B.C.), when the Romans lost faith in the efficacy of their own religion to save the state, the Senate, in compliance with an oracle in the Sibylline books to the effect that the foreign foe could be driven from Italy if the Idaean Mother (Cybele) were brought from Pessinus to Rome, sent ambassadors to the town, who obtained the sacred stone which was the symbol of the goddess and brought it to Rome, where the worship of Cybele was established.

The old division of the country into districts (nomoi) is maintained, and to the inhabitants of these districts demands are directly addressed by the governor of Egypt, while the head of the community, ordinarily a Copt, but in some cases a Moslem, is responsible for compliance with the demand.

Such proposals could not be entertained by Great Britain; and as the sultan remained obstinate the British ambassador on the 3rd of May presented a note to the Porte requiring compliance with the British proposals within ten days.

In fact, compliance with the Christian practice of inhumation in the cemeteries sanctioned by the church, was only enforced in Europe by capitularies denouncing the punishment of death on those who persisted in burying their dead after the pagan fashion or in the pagan mounds.

He afterwards retracted his compliance with the adiaphora, and never really swerved from the views set forth in the Loci communes; but he regarded the surrender of more perfect for less perfect forms of truth or of expression as a painful sacrifice rendered to the weakness of erring brethren.