Sentence examples for the rules affecting from inspiring English sources

NEW FCC RULES COULD COMPLICATE POLLING - A government proposal to revise the rules affecting incoming telephone calls has the polling world on edge.

There are radically different rules for people in different tax brackets, and because the bracket of a taxpayer may change from year to year, the rules affecting that investor may do the same.

And when legislation to change the rules affecting campaign finance -- including the so-called pay-to-play reform -- fell far short of what he had promised, Mr. McGreevey was blamed for the demise of his own goal.

Frank O'Donnell, the executive director of the nonprofit Clean Air Trust, said the rules affecting everything from delivery vans to 18-wheel tractor-trailers would result in the equivalent of removing 13 million trucks from the road.

But, he said, the commission would also exempt broadband service from many of the rules affecting telephone service, seeking mainly to guarantee that Internet service providers could not discriminate against certain applications, Internet sites or users.

For example, said James Turley, chief executive of Ernst & Young, the rules affecting special- purpose entities, like the partnerships that Enron used to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars but whose existence was hidden from investors, could be changed so that it is more difficult to keep those debts off a balance sheet.

■ Will the rules affect the availability of any loans?

The rules affect about 7,500 planes registered in this country.

Besides Nigeria and Yemen, the rules affect Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.

The rules affect products such as certain cheeses, hams, meats, fruits and vegetables.

The rules affect a section of the Clean Air Act, the antipollution statute adopted more than 30 years ago.