And especially agreeing common rules on how MENA states should proceed from here.
If the single market is to operate, it needs some common rules.
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Now the European Commission is arguing that, with tobacco advertising bans in nearly half of the EU member states, common rules are necessary in Europe's single market.
"If the administration or obligation to collect sales taxes is raised to the state level with common rules throughout a state, then you're suddenly down to just 50 rules that a business has to follow, " Locke said, noting that Mountain View, a city that is home to technology titans Netscape Communications Corp.
Sixth, let us show by our willingness to bring Turkey, a proud Muslim nation into the EU on the same and equal terms as all others, that Europe is committed not just in word but in deed to a Europe of diverse races, cultures and religions all bound together by common rules and a sense of human solidarity and mutual respect.
It was the coding into legislation of the extant set of de facto or Common Law rules.
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There was a fundamental disagreement about whether we should set some common sense rules of the road to protect American families and small businesses from insurance company abuses.
As always, general common sense rules apply.
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The Affordable Care Act forces insurance companies to play by a new set of common sense rules, prohibiting them from dropping your coverage if you get sick, billing you into bankruptcy through annual or lifetime limits, and, soon, discriminating against anyone with a pre-existing condition.
From child labor laws to the Clean Air Act to our most recent strictures against hidden fees and penalties by credit card companies, we have, from time to time, embraced common sense rules of the road that strengthen our country without unduly interfering with the pursuit of progress and the growth of our economy.
That's why we're going to keep fighting for common-sense rules of the road for Wall Street.
Several variations were peddled, but all had this in common: Technical rules are manipulated to create an artificially high basis in a partnership.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology.
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To us the choices are clear, common-sense rules and regulations in financial markets that protect consumers, taxpayers, and I might add, the overall economy.
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And that's why I've called for tough, new, common-sense rules of the road that punish abuse and reward drive and innovation in the financial sector.
First, as the weaker partners in the trading system, developing countries benefit the most when the major trading powers play by a common set of rules.
It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation and punishes shortcuts and abuse.
It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, like we did in December, it was to prevent our kids from breathing in dangerous chemicals.
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That might be persuasive if the full weight of America's common-carrier rules as they apply to the telephone business, with all the micro-management they involve, were dumped on the cable industry.
And so if we can create a system in which everybody is playing by a common set of rules, everybody knows what those rules are, then I think U.S. workers and U.S. businesses are going to excel.
Though differing in degree, the punishment laid on indentured servants for attempting to get out of their contracts shares much in common with NCAA rules that penalize college athletes if they want to transfer to a different institution.
We also saw it when Democrats and Republicans in the House came together to pass a bill that will force insurance companies to abide by common-sense rules that prevent price-fixing and other practices that drive up health care costs.
But what we've seen so far, in recent weeks, is an army of industry lobbyists from Wall Street descending on Capitol Hill to try and block basic and common-sense rules of the road that would protect our economy and the American people.
He will seek opportunities as it relates to the overall bill to strengthen it, and will fight, as he said yesterday, any effort to weaken the legislation that he believes, again, provides very clear, common-sense rules of the road so that the American people are never on the hook for the excesses of Wall Street banks.
Speaking to Radio 4's You and Yours, Ofgem spokesman Philip Cullum accused energy firms of failing to exercise common sense over complaints rules.
Well, maybe it has but only because mega rich clubs seem to have lost touch with reality and give the impression they don't need to follow the rules of common decency that the rest of us try to live by.
As I learned from my experience in investment consulting, to effect an industry consolidation there has to be some common ground and agreement on the rules to play by.
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The agency described the changes as "common-sense enhancements" of existing rules - "refinements of existing rules" governing employee responsibilities and conduct.
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