In the corporate world, merger accounting has long been a highly contentious area, with companies seeking rules that would allow them to look good.
Citadel had sought rules that would force it to sell some of its approximately 200 stations, in the hopes of forcing Clear Channel to shed some of its 1,200.
On the contentious issue of cyberattacks, General Dempsey said he asked the Chinese "to put a team of their best and brightest" together to work with the Americans on seeking rules of conduct on computer security.
Mr. Osborne insisted that he was seeking rules that would be acceptable to regulators and authorities around the world including Jean-Claude Trichet, the former president of the European Central Bank, and his successor, Mario Draghi.
Parfit (2011) proposes seeking rules that everyone has (personal or impartial) reason to choose or will that everyone accept.
The Department of Justice, for instance, is seeking rules to ensure its ability to access data on encrypted phones; Congress has permitted ISPs to sell their customers' personal data.
The coalition has backed this and has, behind the scenes, been actively seeking rule changes in Europe to make it easier for councils and NHS bodies to do this.
The complaint, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, seeks clearer rules on police conduct, improvements in training and unspecified damages.
He does not argue that China seeks to rule the world.
"We oppose any religious body – whether presided over by men or women – that seeks to rule over us".
Brewer (1995) also builds an alternative argument along these lines, which seeks to rule out dualism by focusing on introspective awareness of sensations.
