The advocates warned that the erosion might be stealthy and incremental -- regulations and restrictions rather than outright bans -- but asserted that the trend was unmistakable.
Barack Obama offers incremental reform: regulation of insurers to prevent discrimination against the less healthy, subsidies to help lower-income families buy insurance, and public insurance plans that compete with the private sector.
Or, will the industry continue to make incremental improvements until regulation, stakeholder expectations or even catastrophe force a shift in rooted business models?
Intermittency and the non-dispatchable nature of wind energy production can raise costs for regulation, incremental operating reserve, and (at high penetration levels) could require an increase in the already existing energy demand management, load shedding, storage solutions or system interconnection with HVDC cables.
More mainstream organizations that oppose abortion, including the National Right to Life and the Roman Catholic Church, have advocated an incremental strategy of tightening regulations on clinics and working to ban abortions at 20 weeks after fertilization.
The government plans lots of incremental changes: loosening labour regulation, tightening public-sector pensions, and establishing a new agency to fight organised crime and strengthen border security.
This paper studies the global output regulation problem for a class of switched nonlinear systems using incremental passivity, even though the output regulation problem for none of subsystems is solvable.
Dr. Bichlbauer raised eyebrows with his speech, titled "Trade Regulation Relaxation and Concepts of Incremental Improvement: Governing Perspectives from 1970 to the Present": Dear Ms. Foley: We were somewhat puzzled by Dr. Bichlbauer's participation at the conference...
But the move, involving just one state and one province, underscores the incremental and scattershot way that governments are generally adopting regulations to slow climate change.
Those incremental adjustments, in politics, corporate law, capital markets, financial regulation, labour law and practices, and much else besides, have altered the incentives guiding society, the economy and politics.
But there is a risk of re-regulation by a thousand obscure decrees and of incremental government hand-outs in the name of industrial policy, aggravating the low productivity and lack of competitiveness that dog the region.
