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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a move to comply" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions taken to adhere to rules, regulations, or standards.
Example: "The company announced a move to comply with the new environmental regulations set by the government."
Alternatives: "an effort to conform" or "a step towards compliance".
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See articleActing affirmativelyIn a move to comply with South Africa's new Black Economic Empowerment laws, De Beers announced that it would sell a 26% stake, worth 3.8 billion rand ($562m), in its South African diamond-mining operations to a company that will be half-owned by its employees and pensioners and half by an investment firm managed by blacks.
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Officials say the city will also move to comply with court orders that the prior administration was charged with disobeying.
The high-stakes debate over testing is certain to intensify as global food companies weigh the merits of marketing genetically altered foods to consumers, and companies exporting products to Europe and Asia move to comply with new restrictions and labeling requirements on genetically altered foods.
Following its move to comply with international regulations, on April 25 , 1997 Brazil implemented Law No 9456, known as the Plant Variety Protection Law [PVP Law].
Update 2: Commenting on Google's move to comply with the Court of Justice ruling, European Commission VP Viviane Reding noted that it was long overdue, given that the core data protection law dates back to 1995.
As hospitals move to comply with "meaningful use" regulations for electronic health records, as mandated by the Health Information Technology Act, efforts should be made to assure that all components of structured insulin order sets are incorporated into electronic insulin order sets (426, 427).
In June, Crafton Hills College in California quickly moved to comply with a student's request that a handful of critically acclaimed graphic novels included in an English course be tagged with trigger warnings.
Goldman Sachs, moving to comply with a new rule aimed at reducing the riskiness of the country's big banks, recently sold some of its investments in hedge funds.
To his amazement, Dudley was not to be moved to comply: But a man of that nature I never found any... he whom I go about to make as happy as ever was any, to put him in possession of a kingdom, to lay in his naked arms a most fair... lady... nothing regardeth the good that shall ensue unto him thereby... but so uncertainly dealeth that I know not where to find him.
The British government had drawn up concrete plans for as many as 12 nuclear reactors at eight sites in an effort to guarantee the supply of electricity as it moves to comply with European Union emissions standards.
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