But each trust has its own rules, and each family has its own idiosyncrasies.
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Handwerk, which embraces 150 trades from bakery to plumbing and employs 5.1m, has its own rules.
Each has its own rules of communication, or patterns of behaviour, and neither can be blamed, they say, when clashes occur.
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Each has its own rules and administrative requirements, leading to a confusing spaghetti (or perhaps noodle soup) of preferential agreements, instead of the predictability that multilateralism promises.
The military has its own rules on how women can serve, and now some members of Congress want to expand those prohibitions and write them into federal law.
It has its own grammatical rules, which can allow for greater expressiveness than standard German.
And this contrast shows the dramatic shift that has occurred in business attire in recent years, as each industry has developed its own rules.
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What makes residency particularly tricky is that each state has its own set of rules.
As with any ritual, of course, the summer exodus to the Hamptons has its own set of rules.
The church has even broken its own rules in the past decade.
Rules on noise and emissions are laid down by the European Union but because Caterham is a small car producer compared to Ford and Toyota, each country also has its own set of rules.
Why should Mr Orban and Mr Ponta take lectures from an organisation that has been rewriting its own rules on the hoof, tampering with sovereignty without much care for voters and blithely ditching promises made only a few years ago?
There are a mind boggling number of retirement plan types, each of which has its own unique set of rules.
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Yes, this is a bit of a simplification, as each state has its own set of delegate rules that apportion delegates based on performance in congressional districts as well as the state overall.
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Each agency has its own standard operating procedures and rules and regulations, including the ones that would appear relevant to this case.
The Welsh government currently sets its own rules but has not published any similar list in Wales.
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But what we do know is that for decades, the oil industry has been able to essentially write its own rules and safety regulations.
OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.
The potential for privacy legislation in Washington has driven the online-ad industry to establish its own rules, which it says are designed to alert computer users of tracking and offer them ways to limit the use of such data by advertisers.
It is the broad language of the law, and that of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which has dragged the court into coming up with rules of its own to interpret what Congress meant.
Mikael Schiller, the company's executive chairman, says he thinks Acne has succeeded because the company adheres to its own informal catalogue of counterintuitive rules.
The city has lots to offer, but on its own terms, by its own rules.
And in any case, it has conditions of its own: the euro zone must have a proper means of enforcing fiscal rules and a better crisis-management system.
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