"That's the commissioner's ruling, that's what we'll abide by," he said.
"What we try to abide by as United States Marines is that we are above that," he told the recruits.
At the end of the day, he has to negotiate contracts with the BBC and, if that is what they are stipulating, that is what we have to abide by".
Mr. Russert said, "And will you abide by the result?" Mr. Baker, clearly uncomfortable with the question, said: "Well, I'm not sure I understand what you mean, 'Will we abide by the result?' The result will be there".
So that's why we said, "Let's just get what we can now, abide by our commitment of dollar-for-dollar, and we'll have it out, as the President said, on these two issues in the election".
You know, it's not every day you see a high-ranking member of Congress go on teevee, aggressively cast himself as a non-entity, and essentially say, "Oh, I don't expect the president to consider what we say or abide by it".
"We have to show we're different," Mr. Samaras said in the interview, "and we have to show that we abide by what we've signed".
What's the problem?" Dutton replied: "Well, we've signed a convention saying that we won't render somebody stateless so we abide by that principle".
"We abide by the international laws".
Would we abide this standard in other contexts?
