And what good does any of this do if the auditors, who have a duty to the shareholders to stand up to the company executives and complicit or complacent regulators before the financial statements are final and ready to sign, just stand there and take it?
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In cases like the recent split of the much wealthier Katy Perry and the quirky Russell Brand, celebs who thought their marriages would last forever chose not to sign the ironclad contract and now stand to lose millions of dollars.
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But because the sign was present, we had her stand up against it.
Tudjman wants the Europeans to extend their non-military observer mission, now limited to Slovenia, to his republic as a sign that foreign countries will help Croatia stand up to the Yugoslav army.
But there is little sign of much beyond the one-night stand.
The most outrageous aspect of the estate, however, is perhaps the stand alone sports plex located down a sign-studded path.
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All this is a good sign, for it confirms the position in which a contemporary writer ought to stand toward another, greater, writer he is bent on imitating.
Hypocritical perhaps, but the moral imperative not to let Mr Milosevic's brutality stand was a more convincing casus belli than Serbia's mere refusal to sign up at Rambouillet.
The company released a stand-alone messaging app in late 2011 and only started allowing people to sign up for a Facebook messenger account with their phone number last year.
The Pakistani government has said that such suicide attacks are a sign that the Taliban is growing desperate and becoming more aware that Pakistanis are taking a stand against them.
Nevertheless, AMC's taken it to the interwebs to stand its ground, and has rolled out a page inviting Dish customers to sign up for the free live stream of the season premiere this Sunday.
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Quick recap: as things stand now, the family have a veto even if the deceased relative has chosen to sign the Organ Donation Register.
If international investors know where they stand, there would be less of the "rush to the exit" panic at the first sign of trouble.
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