It would give businesses a financial incentive to cut emissions, rather than forcing them to meet inflexible regulatory mandates.
"One of the big differences is that I want people controlling their lives," Mr. Bush said in a telephone interview that hewed to a theme he is working more and more aggressively: that Mr. Gore is bent on inflexible, federally mandated solutions.
Sen. Paul G. Pinsky (D-Prince George's) said the mandate was "inflexible" and created havoc for local districts trying to comply with the order.
Recent research has reinforced Sykes's results and has also found that that those who are incarcerated develop disciplined and habitual behaviors and subscribe to an inflexible structure of standards that are mandated by an unbending environment (de Viggiani 2007).
In that spirit, we are devoting this page to the gun epidemic, and the violence it has caused, and plan to return to the subject frequently, analyzing the challenge but mostly looking at solutions — all of which start with the hard truth that it is past time for both sides of the gun debate to be less inflexible on the issue of a Constitutionally mandated right to bear arms.
For more than two decades, environmental law and regulation was dominated by command-and-control approaches -- typically either mandated pollution control technologies or inflexible discharge standards on a smokestack-by-smokestack basis.
Two groups of infection-control specialists, while acknowledging the value of screening, oppose state laws that mandate it, saying that approach is too inflexible.
Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.
Banking giant UBS calls the big, slow, lumpy, expensive coal and nuclear plants "the dinosaur of the future energy system: Too big, too inflexible, not even relevant for backup power in the long run". Such obsolete technologies are less at risk from reg-ulatory mandates than from market defeat by a swarm of agile competitors that their promoters don't even recognize.
Indonesia is similarly inflexible.
