Sentence examples for petty regulations from inspiring English sources

We're not going to get out of this crisis with petty regulations standing in the way of common sense and solidarity.

Minor violations of petty regulations are frequently used as pretexts to extend the sentences of political prisoners, a report by Human Rights Watch found last year.

It's skimming the surface in the way that free-market ideologues do: get the state and its petty regulations out of the way and the market will sort things out.

It has also been slow in dispatching tanker lorries along the empty highways north.Mr Matsuda, the senator, says the government should, early on in the crisis, have declared a state of emergency to override the petty regulations that snarl up disaster relief.

(Britain's relationship with the European Union, for example, has been fundamentally shaped by a relentless sequence of notoriously false stories about the EU supposedly banning the British army, Scottish kilts, pints of beer, bent bananas, charity shops and Christian teachers, as well as supposedly suffocating daily life with an imaginary set of petty regulations).

Their dilemma stems from the maze of intricate, often petty regulations and laws that envelop nearly every West German.

"They are frustrated by so many reviews in so many successive years, they are annoyed by petty regulation which they feel is holding the industry back but, importantly, the regulator is losing the trust of those they regulate," Myers said.

But let's not forget that Christopher was devastatingly rude if obstructed by a petty regulation or some hackneyed opinion which drew his scorn.

Just as no African-American was morally bound to cooperate with Jim Crow, you have no duty to honor discrimination based on sexual orientation, even a petty regulation like this one.

And some accommodation is still, frankly, shaming and hemmed around by petty regulation". The MoD, he said, "appears to assume that commercial so-called 'best practice', with its proliferation of performance indicators and targets, transfers seemingly without question to defence in general, and to the armed forces in particular".

Not bad for a "petty regulation".