However, there are some positives out of the Annan plan in spite of the failure of Assad to abide by it, and that is where there are United Nations observers in place there has been a reduction in violence.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Would-be autocrats around the world won't abide by democratic norms if there is no penalty for flouting them.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

However, there are additional regulations that businesses have to abide by before launching funding campaigns online.

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Now, as I said, I expect the Supreme Court actually to recognize that and to abide by well-established precedence out there.

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Secondly, as that experience suggests, there is no basis for believing all nuclear weapon states would abide by a new undertaking to abolish their nuclear arsenals.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dangerous disarmers

And we have, through sanctions and other means, made clear to the Iranians that there is a high price to pay for their refusal to abide by their international obligations.

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That is why, working with the Russians and the Chinese and other nations on the Security Council, and broadly at the United Nations, why there is such international consensus about the absolute need for the Iranians to abide by their obligations, to forsake their nuclear weapons ambitions, to demonstrate verifiably that they can reassure the world that they do not seek to acquire nuclear weapons.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The chip giant said it couldn't abide by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte's demand that it discontinue making a similar laptop and argues that there's plenty of room in the marketplace for different brands.

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