Sentence examples for arbitrary regulations from inspiring English sources

In the past, villagers say, distant officials would simply have issued arbitrary regulations.

But Mr. Tian's troubles are a case study in how hard it is to compete in China, where each step forward can be thwarted by arbitrary regulations and baffling politics.

He says such restrictions are typical of government bureaucrats and farming co-op officials who have tried to block him every step of the way with arbitrary regulations and even attempts to ostracize him from others farmers.

Abuelaish recounts in vivid detail the myriad checkpoints (at least 20) that a Palestinian has to negotiate in order to enter and leave Gaza; the bureaucratic niceties, arbitrary regulations and even emotional moods of Israeli guards at the Erez border that can stop desperately sick patients from passing through.

There are laws against arbitrary regulations like that, and a judge issued an embarrassing rebuke to the Obama administration".

Some investors have been scared off by nationalisations and arbitrary regulation.

But when governments impose non-transparent and arbitrary regulation on online services — or use information regimes to favor their own national players — they make it difficult for businesses to make and execute commercial plans.

President Obama should take executive action and end this arbitrary regulation immediately.

In the case of her match with Osaka on Saturday, Williams' actions, the way she broke that racket, the way she demanded respect from the umpire, all serve to remind people of all the times she was forced to smile and grit her teeth at arbitrary clothing regulations, or frequent random drug tests, or racist slurs and boos from certain tennis audiences. .

Even since the Yukos affair, corrupt Russian politicians and businessmen have routinely used arbitrary laws and regulations to grab assets that didn't belong to them.

USTelecom, a telecommunications-focused trade group, filed suit, calling the FCC's open Internet regulations "arbitrary" and "capricious".