Ask your advisors. If the employee has done something legally or egregiously morally wrong, you can stick to the letter of the law only.

如果有人做了法律上或道德上对公司不利的事情，你可以只考虑法律条文。

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I will consider what the law says, however, I do not have stick to the letter of the law, it can be based on the balance of probability.

我会从法律方面进行考虑，但是我不会完全依据法律条款(文字)。我会基于可能性较高者做出决定。

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Please stick this stamp to the envelope before you mail the letter.

在你寄出这封信之前，请把这张邮票贴在信封上。

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The wise and caring leader must then decide whether to stick to the letter of the constitution or bend it to do the good people's bidding.

ECONOMIST: Nursultan Nazarbayev, very nearly eternal

And the big banks could stick to the letter of the Basel rules and appear to be sound, when in fact they were massive, fiendishly complex and impenetrable institutions taking insane risks.

BBC: If banks are treated as naughty kids...

Daisywheel divides the alphabet into eight groups of four, assigning each letter to a controller face button based on the position of the left-analog stick.

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