The hospital has to pay penalties if it does not meet the requirements of its contracts with NHS Suffolk.

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Assuming it makes sense to create a workplace cause of action for intentionally inflicted emotional distress that does not meet the requirements of the common law tort, this bill, with its ill-defined and hopelessly broad restrictions on workplace conduct was not the measure to do it.

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If the Welsh government does not meet the stringent requirements set by the European Commission for the effective management of the EU funds it will be penalised financially.

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Meanwhile, world football's governing body, Fifa, has ruled the Gibraltar FA "does not meet the statutory requirements" for Fifa membership.

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But Dino Kos, a former chief of markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who now works for Portales Partners, a research firm, notes that the yuan does not meet one of the most basic requirements of a reserve currency: other countries cannot use it to intervene in foreign-exchange markets because it is not freely convertible.

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By merely changing the date, Wyden-Brown leaves intact the restrictive requirements states would have to meet to obtain the temporary waiver, which really does not address the problems many states face.

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