The FA, in the now well-told but still heartbreaking history, sat and watched, befuddled; abandoning the club ethos and rules in the hyper-commercial, TV rights-bonanza modern era, just when carefully crafted regulation was needed most.
Changes in different institutions, in individuals' preferences, and in the "ethos" that rules in certain markets should, ideally, go hand in hand and be consistent with one another.
In "Invisible Man," he looks back with scorn and despair on the snivelling ethos that ruled at Tuskegee.
But that ethic does not apply in most of the Arab-Muslim world today, where the political ethos remains "Rule or Die".
John Mann referred Cameron to the commissioner, Kathryn Hudson, saying that his failure to declare £30,000 made from the sale of shares in the trust may have broken the ethos of the rules.
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Weak law enforcement and a general laissez-faire ethos in Thailand undermine rules against vice.
As much as the Caribbean is known for its don't-worry ethos and "island time" rules, many of us only experience it Atlantis-style, isolated inside compounds where we can eat the way we do back home and commune with, if not our neighbors, then people who could just as well be our neighbors.
Watford chief executive Scott Duxbury said last Friday that, although he agreed with the ethos of FFP, the rules needed adapting.
2. Offshore corporate headquarters When the company has the majority of its operations in the United States, but holds one shareholder meeting every year in Bermuda (or the Cayman Islands or some other well-known tax shelter) in order to claim the island as its base of operations (and avoid paying taxes), you are dealing with a corporate ethos of flaunting the rules.
