The EU was never designed to impose rigid uniformity.
To impose rigid uniformity in such a situation was both impossible and undreamed of by contemporaries.
To clamp down, you have to pry into people's lives in a way that many find unacceptably invasive; or you have to impose rigid regulations, such as an outright ban on romances between staff members of different ranks.
By giving countries the ability to choose the detail of the measures, the latest drafts of the pact have defused many of the fears that it would impose rigid fiscal discipline on the euro zone.
But by giving countries the ability to choose the details of their own measures, the latest draft has made it difficult to use the agreement as a vehicle to impose rigid, Germanic fiscal discipline on the euro zone.
I suppose one could say that it would be perfectly easy to opt out of affluence, and to impose rigid family restrictions on ice-cream consumption and toy maintenance, but this is not so.
Renters Choice doesn't impose rigid guidelines on its managers; it gives them leeway in deciding whom to trust and whom not to trust.
And so, some union leaders, hoping to preserve a dated business model, are attempting to impose rigid controls on working arrangements that are, by their very design, flexible.
As implemented by regulators, however, HACCP tends to smother firms in paperwork and impose rigid, costly and out-of-date practices that simply have not kept up with changes in the food industry.
Due to these reasons, we do not aim to exhaustively mine all possible IAM polices which are currently in place and technically enforce them as it would impose rigid restrictions to the system and potentially have a negative impact on business processes.
First, the Obama Administration continues to impose rigid conditions on the inclusion of Taliban elements in a political process--including renunciation of violence and acceptance of Afghanistan's current constitution (including Western-inspired provisions on women's rights).
