Sentence examples for outmoded regulations from inspiring English sources

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Outmoded regulations and onerous state requirements get in the way of addressing this issue, like scores of others.

Mr. Lazio believes that outmoded regulations have hampered the industry, preventing the creation of more inexpensive housing, the aides said.

Mr. Lazio believes outmoded regulations have hampered the industry, preventing the creation of more inexpensive housing, aides said.

Merchants resented their lack of political influence and assured prestige, and they objected to outmoded regulations that created barriers to commerce especially those that hindered their efforts to link commercial operations with improved production systems such as factories.

And something similar happened during the financial crisis, when outmoded regulations left the government ill equipped to deal with the collapse of huge financial institutions like A.I.G. and Lehman Brothers.

There is a deregulation bill, to provide for easier repeal of outmoded regulations, last year's attempt to deal with red tape, before this year's "small business" bill described above.

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"When unrealistic and outmoded regulation results in our having to lay off highly trained workers and constrains our investment in our networks, it is a disservice to all local-phone users in the states we serve," Whitacre said in the statement.

SBC's statement released late Thursday announced in the very first paragraph that the firm is shedding employees and cutting capital expenditures "in response to a continued weak economy and outmoded regulation that could threaten the future viability of its telecommunications networks in many of its states".

But because of outmoded Pentagon bureaucratic regulations, the military failed to reform its personnel assignment policies, even as more and more women came into the line of fire, with the emergence of "asymmetrical warfare".

Among the areas of concern, the report highlights outmoded labor certification regulations that call on would-be employers of foreign nationals to first take out costly print ads in newspapers to solicit American applicants, "even though in many of the fields in which this process is likely to take place, print advertisements have completely disappeared," according to the report.

When Garcetti asked the current Los Angeles Taxi Commission to begin pursuing reforms, they discovered a host of outmoded, vague, even weird regulations, including one requiring drivers to wear "black pants and socks".

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