This is a formal country, full of regulations governing everything from times of day when children are supposed to be quiet to the lace curtains to be placed on certain windows.
Signed by President Obama last month, the Dodd-Frank bill, as the financial regulatory legislation is being called, requires regulators to draft hundreds of rules governing everything from bank capital standards to derivatives trades.
IN a climate where any regulation of the Internet in its commercial infancy is considered high treason, many law experts are dismayed at the tidal wave of restrictive legislation -- governing everything from software filters to digital copyrights and public domain information -- being drafted and enacted by states and the Federal Government.
Now, as his company puts the final touches on 11 floats it is building for the 2012 parade, it has to be mindful of 140 pages of regulations and stipulations governing everything from dimensions to propulsion systems to evacuation procedures.
Both have said they are concerned that the use of arcane regulations and rules, governing everything from the size of cellphone batteries to the types of wheels for motorcycles, appears aimed at keeping American products out.
Virtually all of the citations were for alleged violations of OSHA's process safety management standard, a sweeping rule governing everything from storage of flammable liquids to emergency shutdown systems.
The Talmud, a compilation and analysis of oral Jewish law and ethics governing everything from marital relations to agriculture, is written as a flowing rabbinic discourse.
On the one hand, each classroom must conform to strict federal standards governing everything from the child-teacher ratio to the involvement of parents in program decision-making.
For example, he said, it has micromanaged the death penalty, invented new rules governing everything from sex to punitive damages and even changed the rules of golf.
While Laozi's dao cannot be contained or inscribed within any kind of linguistic structure, it still represents the basic cosmic and moral force, creating and immanently governing everything that exists.
Thus, whereas the principles of physics are valid only in the actual world and in worlds that are nomologically similar to it, the principles of logic govern everything thinkable.
