Sentence examples for modest regulation from inspiring English sources

Like McGraw, most every NRA Country artist interviewed for this story stressed the importance of safety, education, and modest regulation when discussing their views on guns and the second amendment.

"So the notion that gun violence is somehow different," he said, visibly frustrated, "that our freedom and our constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon – when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt, protect their families and do everything they do under those regulations – doesn't make sense".

House Republicans voted 191 times last year to undermine existing environmental protections or reject Democratic efforts to strengthen them — even killing off a modest regulation requiring more energy efficient light bulbs — and in general have vowed to resist new energy strategies or do anything at all that might disturb their patrons in the fossil fuel industries.

Even the most modest regulation around stock option grants, venture capital or angel investing is met with screams that innovation as we know it will be crushed.

He opposes even the most modest regulation of guns, and fought against the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights and other issues critical to women and moderate voters.

Late last Friday Pruitt snuck out his decision to block implementation of a modest regulation aimed at reducing the real danger that an accident, natural disaster, or sabotage at a U.S. chemical plant could kill thousands of people.

It is important that the modest regulations be strengthened before the full commission votes on them on Tuesday.

The modest regulations the agency has already proposed, plus stronger ones it will issue later this year, should lead to the retirement of many of the nation's older, dirtier coal-fired power plants and a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions.

That's because in Barack Obama, they have a nominee who occupies the far leftward pole of the abortion debate, with a long and reliable record of voting against even modest regulations on the practice — including a vote he cast as an Illinois lawmaker against regulations intended to protect infants born accidentally as a result of a botched abortion.

After all, the shibboleth of gun confiscation that the N.R.A. uses to such great effect in stoking the fears of its members is a shibboleth precisely because most gun-control advocates don't seek it, instead favoring far more modest regulations, like increased background checks and better data collection.

Even simple transparency or modest regulations are too much for API and the oil industry.