If this involved only his own person - adherence to laws concerning diet or dress, for example - you should of course be tolerant.

No need to doubt his adherence to law where his own writ was challenged.

Officials would be required to disregard court orders: a terrible proposition in a country that prides itself on adherence to law.

Behold Sultan for his strict adherence to law and rectitude."

The next few weeks will require scrupulous adherence to law, and finely tuned political tact on all sides.

His strong adherence to Law sometimes brings Heironeous into conflict with Trithereon.

Meanwhile, Russian dissidents and artists in exile praise it for its adherence to laws and its political freedoms.

Sir Robert Thompson, who successfully defeated the Malayan insurgency, "stressed tough administration, population control, and adherence to law.

Under normal rules, they have 120 days from the start of a contract to draw up a plan, which is primarily intended to help companies self-monitor their adherence to laws against discrimination.

With its rigid adherence to laws stored in a temple, administered by priestly types vested with civil authority, it resembled the old Sumerian system, and was just as stifling.

"As chairman of the SEC I will call on them individually and collectively to create a new environment of integrity and accountability that goes well beyond adherence to laws."

Major themes include: the evolution of the Army's role in domestic support operations; its strict adherence to law; and the disciplined manner in which it conducted these difficult and often unpopular operations.

Still, industry experts said the episode underscored the need for stricter adherence to laws in place and for new laws to further lessen the possibility of the disease's spreading among animals and into humans.

Some on the committee attempted to stop the development of Job Order Contracting by insisting on adherence to laws that no longer existed instead of the Federal Acquisition Regulation in existence at the time.

East Asian cultures are influenced by two schools of thought, Confucianism, which advocated good governance as rule by leaders who are benevolent and virtuous, and Legalism, which advocated strict adherence to law.

The letter is no doubt of great comfort to Mr. Clinton, who seems to have eschewed mainstream American values like honesty, forthrightness, marital fidelity and adherence to law as being too constrictive and inconvenient to apply to him.

On this view, it is impossible to distinguish between behaviour which is rule bound and that which is not, i.e. which behaviour is motivated by adherence to law (or at least done in recognition of the law) and which is merely a response to other factors.

The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) is a treaty-based judicial body of the East African Community tasked to ensure adherence to law in the interpretation and application of and compliance with the East African Community Treaty of 1999.