Rules
Britishplural noun
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short for Australian Rules
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English history the neighbourhood around certain prisons (esp the Fleet and King's Bench prison) in which trusted prisoners were allowed to live under specified restrictions
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Under EU rules, streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime must carry at least 30 percent of European content in their catalogues.
From Barron's
Prissard questioned how those enforcing the rules "will be able to tell the difference" between original creations and "synthetic" ones.
From Barron's
The rules note: “Marriage they say is a gamble, one thing very certain is that money plays an important part.”
He has said the agency is working on clearer rules of the road for prediction exchanges, including around how they self-certify specific events contracts.
After all the changes to tariff rules last year, manufacturing in Vietnam instead of China saves about 1% of a product’s cost in tariffs.
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