Sentence examples for rule in response to from inspiring English sources

Sir Gus O'Donnell, the head of the civil service, issued the new rule in response to the disclosures about Damian McBride, the former Downing Street adviser, sending emails proposing to smear political opponents.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed the rule in response to letters from 51 United States senators — 42 Republicans and 9 Democrats — who asked that the current rule be changed.

The bureau, which began overseeing many consumer financial products last year, said it was issuing the proposed rule in response to a federal court decision that challenged how the Credit Card Act was being applied.

The Clinton rules, announced on Jan . 5 were initially to have taken effect on Feb. 12. Implementation was postponed twice by the Bush administration, most recently until May 12, as part of a comprehensive review in which the new administration had declined until now even to defend the broad outlines of the rule in response to the court challenge.

If the organizers of the initiative were seeking experienced industry professionals, they should have invited the former insiders who form Occupy the S.E.C. — and who recently submitted another impressive letter on the Volcker Rule in response to a request from Representative Spencer Bachus, Republican of Alabama and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, for "alternatives" to it.

The telecoms regulator Ofcom has started a consultation on such a rule, in response to hundreds of complaints about surprise price rises.

Last Oct. 30, Gale Norton, Mr. Babbitt's successor, substituted her own rules in response to industry complaints and lawsuits.

Tighter rules in response to the financial crisis will be a major headache for finance firms in 2014.

While on the district court in New Hampshire in 1977, he ruled in response to an inmate's lawsuit that the conditions at the state prison were "deplorable".

International calls for a rematch between West Germany and Austria went unheeded, but FIFA did immediately change its rules in response to the outrage.

Wall Street firms have begun changing their own rules in response to the regulatory crackdown on the distribution of new stocks.