Sentence examples for costly rule from inspiring English sources

The home renovation industry filed protests over the "inappropriate and costly" rule with the Bush administration and Congress.

Mr Obama seems to have taken their criticism to heart; on September 2nd he postponed a costly rule on ozone emissions (see article).Yet Republicans almost certainly overstate the importance of uncertainty.

That's because a costly rule can run 20 pages or 200 pages, depending on the degree to which the agency responds to public comments, the scope of its regulatory impact analysis, and the complexity of the process or action targeted by the rule.

Imposing new, costly rules on airlines was "incredible" at a time when the industry is expected to lose more than $6.1 billion this year, he said.

More than 80 percent of new contracts issued in France are short term, a trend that has grown steadily as employers turn to them to escape the costly rules protecting permanent workers.

The new regulations represent a major step back from more demanding and costly rules proposed last spring that provoked an outcry from members of Congress from both parties and from thousands of affected businesses.

So many costly rules have been added to protect workers and limit benefits going to high-income workers that many companies offer no retirement plan, not even a 401(k) savings plan, according to the bar association.

In public statements between 1997 and 2007, Exxon, while not denying the possibility that carbon emissions were causing warming, stressed the scientific uncertainties concerning the extent of carbon's contribution to it and suggested caution in adopting costly rules curbing emissions before more was known.

Paul, however, argued that protective legislation such as laws mandating maximum eight-hour shifts for female factory workers actually closed the door of opportunity on women by imposing costly rules on employers, who would then be inclined to hire fewer women.

In addition, the Defense Department, without any clearly understood rationale, exempted EADS from costly rules that require defense contractors like Boeing to use domestically processed special metals, and from United States export control laws that apply to Boeing and that restrict the export of critical antimissile technologies to countries like Iran.

No talent channel is more bogged down with needless and costly rules than the visa system for highly skilled immigrants.