Asimov laid down the basic rule in 1942: no robot should harm a human.
However, the basic rule of finance is that high risk comes with high return.
The basic rule is the farther it is from the vine, the less nutrients it has.
Basic rule at work here: Every tax gift from Congress has some kind of hand grenade attached.
But mainly by exploiting the basic rule of yacht design: The longer the boat, the faster it can go.
But it's a basic rule of politics: If you can't disprove the message, you try to discredit the messenger.
For the most part, the basic rule of thumb is one accomplishment per inscription or personalization up to five words.
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At some point the basic rule of all media businesses will prevail: consolidation into a small number of well-trafficked sites and services.
Simply make the basic rule about costs in patent cases loser pays.
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And yet it is obeying another basic rule which both would advocate.
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Another basic rule is to make sure the donee organization is qualified.
For Lecerf adhered to the most basic rule of driving: The tires are the things on your car that make contact with the road.
Since then a few more yachts have joined the speed club, mainly by exploiting the basic rule of yacht design: The longer the boat, the faster it can go.
From a strategic standpoint, therefore, Westinghouse's broadcasting ambitions satisfy the basic rule of corporate capitalism: if you can wring more value out of an asset than anybody else, it ought to be yours.
One basic rule for limit-making is that the burden of proof should fall on those who want change especially since the changers often want to keep on changing indefinitely: cutting the abortion limit by a fortnight was, for some, merely an interim goal on the way to a tighter squeeze or an outright ban.
Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.
The basic rule for donations of art and collectibles is this: If you've held the work for more than a year and the recipient charity uses it in a manner related to its tax-exempt purpose, you can deduct the work's fair market value, while not paying the usual 28% tax on the appreciation.
The primary issues are basic security, the rule of law, and hunger.
Until then, you'll just have to put your trust in strangers and hope they have at least a basic understanding of the rule of thirds.
But he understood the basic principle that is the Buffett Rule.
Those sceptical of referendums agree that popular sovereignty, majority rule and consulting voters are the basic building blocks of democracy, but believe that representative democracy achieves these goals much better than referendums.
As a rule of thumb, products that speak to basic needs are more recession proof.
The poorest countries can hope to catch up if they establish the basic economic institutions (starting with property rights and the rule of law) and do lots of other things right.
The rule against the retrospective application of laws is a basic tenet of most legal systems.
The basic service is free, but comes at the price of having to obtain yet one more phone number (to rule them all).
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