In the past China's delisting rules have been loosely interpreted and lightly enforced.
Before the 2009 election, a similar dynamic led to the passage of a controversial (and now lightly enforced) morality law that outlaws art, movies and music that "can arouse sexual desires and/or violate public moral values".
The No Child Left Behind bill sought to direct school districts receiving federal aid to study and address this problem, but the provision was lightly enforced — the Bush Administration spent its capital on enforcing testing and accountability, with results that remain deeply controversial.
He quickly let the committee know that he was one of the original sponsors of the law that created the bureau and that he doesn't "want to go back to the old days" when he said the Federal Reserve lightly enforced consumer protection laws.
It's an illegal but lightly enforced practice – and appallingly common in many industries, where it is used to force employees to work off-the-clock, as a means to avoid paying overtime rates, or simply as a way not pay staff for work they have done.
Christian Laval, the manager, said he and Mr. Ducasse agreed that it would be better to ban tobacco than to divide the small dining room with a barrier between the smoking and nonsmoking sections, as required by a lightly enforced French law.
