Sentence examples for feeble regulation from inspiring English sources

Ofgem boss Andrew Wright says he understands public anger at rising energy prices but has denied his organisation is guilty of "feeble regulation".

That this portrayal now seems in some ways more up-to-date than the government's feeble regulation of US bases in this country is surely a compelling reason for ministers to support these eminently reasonable amendments.

Flicking through slides, Mr. Miller, a Treasury official working with the department's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, lays out what caused the housing bubble: easy credit, shoddy banking, feeble regulation, and on and on.

Reporters who analyzed tens of thousands of races and combed through reports of injuries and medical tests found a culture of rampant cheating and feeble regulation, where injured and fragile horses are forced to run while drugged, to the great peril of both animals and jockeys.

Feeble regulation and supervision had allowed alarming mismatches between assets and liabilities, so banks started to fail, prompting yet more capital outflows.In desperation Thailand even encouraged people to hand over their gold jewellery to be melted down to boost the central banks' reserves (pictured above).

This is why the Treasury, OFHEO and others are urging Congress to pass a bill that gives the currently feeble regulator similar powers to those of bank supervisors.The GSEs seem unworried by the prospect of more stringent regulation.

"But OTS was a feeble regulator.

Is current regulation so feeble?

But this much is clear: the old system of regulation was feeble.

In a bid to soften hardening attitudes towards the controversial deal agreed by all the main political parties in a late night meeting a week ago, Rusbridger said the old system of press regulation was "feeble".

Vinamotor, a state-run maker of cars (among other things) is building a bus factory in the Dominican Republic and two lorry factories and an asphalt works in Venezuela, but as yet Vietnam is not a mass producer of cars.A mountain still to climbPrivate firms are bounding ahead despite bureaucracy, corruption, poor regulation, a feeble legal system and a creaking infrastructure.