And too many countries, including the euro zone's biggest members, were allowed to flout the rules with impunity.
When the undercover authors offered to pay a premium to flout the rules, the rate of demand for identity documents fell precipitously.
Shareholders will have a veto over salaries, golden handshakes will be forbidden, and managers of companies who flout the rules could face prison.
This willingness to flout the rules for the sake of being hip sets today's generation apart from predecessors, who accepted the personality-stifling garb as an obligatory rite of passage.
It was Mr Murdoch's contempt for the established order that created News Corp his ability to walk into a market, flout the rules and do the things that nobody else had thought of doing.
The IRS must implement a system to aggressively pursue ghost preparers and jail those who intentionally flout the registration rules.
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The president has freely spent public money in past campaigns, and has packed the electoral authority with supporters, letting him flout campaign rules and perhaps even tweak the result.
This allows the authorities to flout single-market rules with no more than a quiet word in the ear.
When a Eurozone country is in dire fiscal straits or breaks the stability pact (Germany and France like to flout its rules), fines just make the fiscal hole deeper.
The previous FDA head, Andrew von Eschenbach, permitted self-styled whistleblowers to flout the agency's ethics rules by publicly contradicting agency policy and disparaging drugs and drug companies that they disliked.
If countries think they can get away with it, the temptation to flout world-trade rules will grow.
Financial free markets succeed not because institutions can flout the law, but because the law requires those institutions to play by a set of rules.
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