Sentence examples for rules acted from inspiring English sources

Idiotic mortgage loans started the financial fire and overly stringent mark-to-market accounting rules acted as an accelerant, forcing financial firms to write down the value of their assets even when underlying mortgage cash flows were likely to grossly exceed fire-sale prices for mortgage securities.

Regulatory issues and procurement rules acted as barriers.

Local funding, scaling up manufacturing, technology transfer, and partnerships with Sumitomo and others all played important roles in A to Z's ascent, as did perceived benefits of local employment and capacity-building; regulatory issues and procurement rules acted as barriers.

The current rules act as a disincentive for people to cash in pots, as the tax penalties are far more punitive.

Second, in the single market the state aid rules act as a powerful brake on the ability of large corporations to extract tax breaks and subsidies from national governments in return for locating in their country.

These unbalanced rules act to eliminate prominent bidders from the auction, thereby reducing total auction proceeds.

The asserted rules act upon the cells and change the state of the cell at every discrete time step.

To a proceeding of this character the rule acted on in Florida East Coast Line v. United States, 234 U. S. 167, 34 Sup.

An asymmetric spike time-dependent plasticity rule acts upon an initially unstructured network of spiking neurons that receive inputs encoding animal velocity and location.

There have been rare exceptions, but in general the bar for a successful libel suit by a public figure is set so high that the mere existence of the Sullivan rule acts as a suit dissuader.

The Follow the Rules Act, which would close a gap in whistleblower protections, advanced on a voice vote with no objections heard.