He will be shunned by many more public officials whose support he needs to bend regulations and win government approvals for acquisitions and other enterprises.
The US bends regulations for frackers and pipelines, and stands shoulder to shoulder with the UK in spying on environmentalists.
I suspect he means he never pushed an agency to bend a regulation or show favoritism.
Some of America's biggest crusaders against crony capitalism warn Trump could use his position to pressure foreign leaders to accommodate his company, or to bend U.S. regulations to favor his interests over competitors.
Fortunately, exhaustive accounts by the likes of Woodrow Wyatt lay bare what a big part of her life he was, and reading them again one is torn between total revulsion at the reminder of how she bent every regulation in the book to buy his papers' support (and gift him a monopoly in satellite television), and amusement when he still – inevitably – does her over.
Engineers bent patent regulations.
SEOUL, South Korea — Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan of South Korea offered to resign on Saturday amid allegations that his ministry bent its regulations to hire his daughter during a period of high unemployment.
The story that Warren told gave the Party an answer, because she did not see a collapse of institutional authority or politics but, rather, a persistent set of corruptions in which the systems of regulation bent toward a very few, very wealthy people.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the biggest tech stories in Europe had a regulation bent, but it wasn't all tech companies clashing with governments, including news of a major U.S. VC fund crossing the pond, a fintech boom in the making, and the heartwarming realisation that European VCs are just like the rest of us after all.
And governments have shown willingness in the past to bend automobile construction regulations, allowing lighter glass for instance, in flying car prototypes seeking certification.
