We not only comply with the laws but we comply with the spirit of the laws.

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These money laundries, organized as 501(c)(4) groups under the Internal Revenue Code, violate the spirit of the tax laws and may well violate the letter of the law as well.

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They tended to look at matters of the spirit in the same way they regarded the laws of nature as a series of immutable rules, handed down by God.

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The professor wants Britain which, prior to the 1970s, had drug policies that would seem impossibly liberal today to honour the spirit of its laws, and to adopt a more sober analysis of the risks posed by individual drugs before deciding whether or not to ban them.

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He had also conveyed the FSA's worries about the bank's culture, including the attitudes of its most senior staff to risk taking, and flouting the spirit of tax laws and banking regulations.

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And Reifer was handed an official reprimand for failing to ensure play was conducted within the spirit and laws of the game.

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Meanwhile, in the Senate, John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) have introduced the Startup Visa Act of 2011, which would reform our visa laws to take the entrepreneurial spirit of immigrants into account.

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Morgan Stanley is committed to robust compliance with both the letter and the spirit of all applicable regulations and laws.

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Mir-Hossein Mousavi said he would put forward a bill to amend laws judged to be at odds with the spirit of Iran's constitution, in particular "discriminatory and unjust regulations" against women.

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