Sentence examples for governing gifts from inspiring English sources

Critics, understandably, question how this jibes with Congressional ethics regulations governing gifts to lawmakers.

Allegations of abuse have drawn recent regulatory scrutiny, and rules governing gifts from donor-advised funds have been tightened.

"The payments were made as gifts, accepted as gifts and complied with tax rules governing gifts," the statement read.

The 108th Congress got off to a greedy start in January when Republican leaders engineered self-serving changes in the House of Representatives' rules governing gifts to members.

THE ARTS, PAGE E1 Albany's Tangled Loopholes In the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal in Washington, New York State's efforts to close a glaring loophole in a law governing gifts from lobbyists to lawmakers may do little to stem the flow of largess.

"The payments were made as gifts, accepted as gifts and complied with tax rules governing gifts," lawyer Paul Coggins said.

The Simon Property Group agreed on Monday to pay a $100,000 in penalties and $25,000 in court costs after Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused it of violating a new state law governing prepaid gift cards.

While the convention is about spotlighting the Democratic Party's candidates for president and vice president, it has also served to highlight the porous nature of New York's ethics laws governing what free gifts lawmakers can accept from corporations doing business with the government.

With no agreement on what type of boat to race, the Deed of Gift governing the Cup defaults to 90-foot boats of unlimited beam, or width.

On rebuffing Joseph Seligman in 1877, the Trustees established one of their guiding principles governing the receipt of gifts, "That in the future no Endowment of Professorships will be accepted by the (Cornell Universityy which deprives the Board of Trustees of the power to Select The persons who shall fill such professorships".

Fifa has asked officials to return the watches handed out at the World Cup as football's governing body claims the gifts break its code of ethics. .