The judges said they had "some doubt" whether the city had done everything it could to obtain compliance with the court's orders.

Otherwise, you may incur significant delay and expense in obtaining compliance prior to release.

"We were not seeking to find contempt but to obtain compliance," he said today.

But the Attorney General is damned well supposed to know that is going on, and to be able to give orders and obtain compliance.

On 18 April 1860 he asked the boy's father for permission to use "severe corporal punishment" to obtain compliance, with permission being granted two days later.

Obtaining such compliance and reducing the threat posed by Iraq to international security is our first priority.

The demand to sacrifice was unacceptable to many of the imprisoned, but wardens often managed to obtain at least nominal compliance.

This attempt to obtain compliance involves gaining someone's approval so they will be more likely to appease your demands.

One might say that the present situation is in no small part due to the lack of international will to obtain compliance with Resolution 1559.

We intend to pursue these actions with a view to obtaining full compliance with Community law.