Media companies have been merging with abandon for the last decade, rules or no rules.
Westerns, Regency romances, film noir: those are genres kinds of stories with specific categories of subjects and conventions for their content and presentation. (Stories about superheroes are a genre, too.) Prose fiction, sculpture, video: those, like comics, are media forms of expression that have few or no rules regarding their content other than the very broad ones imposed on them by their form.
Acunto says that in his opinion, no rules or regulations would ever turn mixed martial arts into a true sport.
Most hackers have no rules or regulation and when someone comes in the room they do not jump up and salute.
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Instead of all-purpose boxes of bricks, with no rules or instruction manuals, the company now sells Star Wars Legos and Harry Potter Legos, complete with step-by-step instructions and stated objectives.
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But the committee said there were no clear rules or thresholds that trigger such steps.
On April 28, 2009, its shares fell an inexplicable 50% in 70 seconds and there were no circuit breakers or uptick rules to stop them.
No absolute rules or necessities exist to determine the proper strategy.
According to Bank of America Spokeswoman Ferris Morrison, Bank of America has no written rules or restrictions when it comes to inked corporate employees.
About 15 percent of the new cars sold in California by 2025 must run on electricity, hydrogen fuel or other alternative fuels that produce near zero or no emissions, according to new rules adopted unanimously by state regulators on Friday.
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In poorer countries they often have no rules at all, or if they have them they fail to enforce them.
The next stage in this evolution toward price transparency would be a court case or federal regulation exterminating the no-surcharge rules.
No matter how the judge or jury rules, the case has as much chance of definitively settling the underlying questions as the Scopes Monkey Trial definitively settled issues about creation and evolution.
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And even at Wentworth, there are rules: no singlet or vest tops, shirts must have a collar (a throwback to the elitist collar-and-tie days, when golf was only played by the upper classes) and strictly no denim.
Familiarize yourself with the house rules (no baseball caps or shorts, boys) before heading over to this schmancy cocktail bar on a happening little strip Uptown.
Having to go through a cloture motion simply to get -- simply to get an up or down vote on a non-controversial nominee that has gone through a committee unanimously, and then ultimately gets through the Senate with one or two no votes or also gets through unanimously, is nothing more than a ridiculous abuse of the rules of the Senate.
No one rules out arson by someone or other, but neither is misfortune discounted, as the result, say, of an electrical fault or faults.
This is an impossible task, no matter how smart or well-motivated our rules claim to be, because every individual has his or her own unique incentives, information, and preferences in making price-value trade-offs for care.
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And even if the indigenisation rules were suspended or scrapped, that would be no guarantee of security.
There are as yet no coherent rules to deal with either foreign direct investment or competition policy.
Patrick Schultheis, then a first-year lawyer, drafted a "Tag Participation Agreement, " which outlined the spirit of the game and the rules (no "tag-backs, " or tagging the player who just tagged you).
Of the teens who have access to the Internet, 43 percent say their parents have no rules governing how much time they can spend online or what sites they are allowed to visit.
Conduct disorder is marked by fairly serious behavior problems, like breaking rules for no clear reason, harming other people or animals, lying, not attending school, running away, and vandalizing property, according to the NIH.
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But almost half of the 14m unemployed have been out of a job for six months or more, and so would no longer qualify for benefits under the rules that will apply from January 1st.
Ignoring rules about classified data just because one wants to work at home or thinks the rules silly, as informed observers say commonly happened, is no longer tolerated.
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Researchers concluded that any such "guilty look" is a response to human behaviour and has no relation with the dog's actions or sense of having broken any rules.
Various countries also have been formulating new rules or guidelines to assure that before satellites completely lose power and no longer can be controlled, operators will abide by plans to park them in out-of-the-way orbits or safely bring them back to earth.
One of the first rules in diplomacy--economic or otherwise--is to do no harm.
No matter how much you like a stock or index, one of the central rules of my trading strategy is to never chase.
This allows them to freely replace underperforming teachers and quickly build the best teaching staff they can, with absolutely no regard to senority, union work rules, union grievance processes, or anything else.
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