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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comply.

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Examples

  • The name complies with the rules set by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, which allows for species to receive names honouring people, including celebrities.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Pearlman 2012

  • If the terrain complies with an offer of a longish stretch without another set of competing over takers and tailgaters hurtling our way in the other direction, I ease out of this dilemma by slowing down sufficiently for the exchange to take place, first place for second.

    Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

  • If the terrain complies with an offer of a longish stretch without another set of competing over takers and tailgaters hurtling our way in the other direction, I ease out of this dilemma by slowing down sufficiently for the exchange to take place, first place for second.

    Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

  • If the terrain complies with an offer of a longish stretch without another set of competing over takers and tailgaters hurtling our way in the other direction, I ease out of this dilemma by slowing down sufficiently for the exchange to take place, first place for second.

    Free riding the roads of Mexico 2010

  • Unless Britain complies, Ms Reding has the power to issue a final warning before taking the country to the 27-nation EU’s top court, the European Court of Justice.

    EC goes after Britain over Phorm DPI 2009

  • If Saddam complies, that is the U.N. mandate fulfilled.

    CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2002 2002

  • And so the scene being thus laid, the man goes on, and upon these terms complies with the temptation, and commits the sin; and God, perhaps, in his just judgment, never gives him grace to repent of it.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

  • "Many legal experts, including those who support a playoff, know that the BCS complies with the law," he said.

    Tiger Woods Regains Status as a Favorite 2011

  • The bank hasn't filed its annual financial data for last year and also has been told by the Nasdaq Stock Market that it no longer complies with certain listing rules.

    Smaller Lenders Struggle to Survive Robin Sidel 2011

  • The latest moves are turning up the heat on Greece's politics as Athens complies with conditions set for a second bailout, set to include banks voluntarily offering to extend the maturities on the Greek bonds they own.

    Greece Readies Austerity Push Alkman Granitsas 2011

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