| The strong desire to move ahead can at times tempt businesses to cut corners or bend the rules. |
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| I mean you just jacked someone else's car. You cheat, steal, and bend the rules to your liking whenever you want. |
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| My God, she wants to catch lightning bugs and I can't bend the rules for 15 minutes? |
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| Crimes such as taking something from the office or asking a friend to bend the rules might involve only minor damage, but set up a vicious cycle. |
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| Beobachtende Koordinatorin may find customers who fail to keep promises, or who bend the rules, more interesting to deal with. |
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| Others channel their feelings into sudden acts of compassion, as when some bend the rules in order to medivac out a wounded 12-year-old Iraqi boy. |
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| We all bend the rules sometimes at work, which is what I've done. |
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| One corporate detective says most of the big firms stay well within the law but there are a host of smaller one-man bands who will bend the rules. |
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| Anyone who starts to bend the rules for opportunistic reasons challenges the foundations of the European Community. |
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| Gross violations are committed daily by those who bend the rules or just disregard them altogether. |
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| As a result, regions told us that they may bend the rules to allow funding to continue rather than cut off needed funds. |
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| We are concerned that we are hearing reports of some farmers trying to bend the rules a little. |
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| First, there is the ever-present temptation to somehow bend the rules to prevent Parliament from being able to fully exercise its powers. |
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| We already have the Copenhagen Criteria, and there is no reason to bend the rules they stipulate. |
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| I tried not to bend the rules, but I was very happy that I could apply the money at need to various parts of my career. |
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| We also met with the prison authorities and had even found certain prison wardens who were willing to bend the rules to give us access to certain prisons. |
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| But in many rural areas officials now bend the rules. |
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| Straw agreed to bend the rules, citing exceptional circumstances. |
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| I am not trying to bend the rules, I am trying to make them fit. |
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| You cannot bend the rules just because it suits you to do so. |
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| It stands out in these circumstances with what has happened in the Gulf of Mexico, the concerns we have of the government being quite willing to be overly friendly with the oil and gas industry, willing to bend the rules. |
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| Faced with a choice between observing the contracting rules or meeting a significant operational deadline, most line managers we talked to would at least bend the rules. |
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| As well, they make the rules and bend the rules to suit themselves. |
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| The memo from Robert Thériault made it very clear that the Department of Human Resources Development was willing to bend the rules specifically for the Prime Minister. |
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| Strangely enough, when I'm addressing a young audience I'm tempted to bend the rules, to push the limits, whereas usually when I receive directions I tend to follow them like a good girl. |
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| We don't consciously try to play progressive rock, we're just curious about what we can do with music and song structures, and how we can bend the rules. |
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| I bend the rules only because I took the time to learn them. |
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