This is a classical case of the same entity enforcing the law and financially benefiting from the said enforcement.

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As a tax-exempt entity, OFA by law can't intervene in elections and is subject to strict limits on lobbying.

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"We have 42 partners here -- every law enforcement entity, every transportation entity, everyone that's got camera -- we are utilizing, " Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said.

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And remember, we are talking about a commercial entity, not a court of law, so even having to use the phrase due process suggests that things are going wrong.

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Soon after, on New Year's Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions against any entity which dealt with the Central Bank of Iran, a measure which put off many financial institutions from doing business with Iran under the fear of being locked out of the US market.

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Any entity can and has been a target, even law enforcement agencies and jails and prisons, where inmates, correctional officers, teachers and senior staff have been caught in a variety of schemes to steal, corrupt, defraud, extort and improperly obtain or divert assets and use their influence for personal gain.

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MUFG, which has an existing entity in Thailand, is trying to figure out how to shut that entity and roll outstanding loans into Ayudhya because under Thai law, banks can have only one presence in the country.

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For starters international law has objective criteria for determining whether or not an entity qualifies as a state.

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The proposed LEI system in this paper relies on the at-source creator of the legal entity and its local certifying agent (an internationally recognized auditor, law firm, perhaps a local exchange or business registry owner or other trusted source) to ensure the accuracy of data.

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