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After all, News UK had to clean up its act in the wake of the hacking saga and related dramas.

Neither did he rein back Wall Street with regulation (although the government did pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the wake of the Enron scandal).

The Anderson report comes after parliament's intelligence and security committee recommended a new intelligence services act in the wake of the disclosures by the whistleblower, Edward Snowden.

They claim that the PCAOB, which was established in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley act in the wake of huge accounting scandals at Enron and elsewhere, is unconstitutional.

The emergency meeting of the IAAF council came at the end of a week in which pressure had grown on the governing body to act in the wake of Pound's damning 325-page report.

The extension of Mr Zweifach's role comes as News Corp faces the danger of the US Justice Department bringing charges against the company, under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, in the wake of a series of arrests of journalists at The Sun as part of a Scotland Yard investigation into alleged bribery of public officials.

There is of course nothing wrong, in principle, with the department's use of intelligence information to protect our city from terrorist acts in the wake of 9/11.

Acting in the wake of a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency issued "guidance" that effectively weakened longstanding protections for isolated wetlands and small streams.

A letter from the German foreign and defence ministries said the deployment was aimed at preventing "terrorist acts" in the wake of the Paris attacks, and supporting France and other partners in their fight against Isis.

The commissioner acted in the wake of controversy over a two-game ban given to the Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who did not contest a charge of aggravated assault in a February incident involving his then fiancée.

Acting in the wake of yesterday's withdrawal from the coalition government of five members of the Free Democratic party, the remainder of the Cabinet took the unexpected course of completing the demise of the government to give the Chancellor a completely free hand to solve the crisis any way he likes.