Sentence examples for regulations like a from inspiring English sources

Tabloids bang on about silly E.U. regulations (like a supposed ban on reusing jam jars), but referendums are not won on such issues.

Voters in 2006 approved a ballot measure giving property owners the right to file claims against the government if its regulations, like a historic or landmark designation, resulted in a decrease in their property's value.

Although Lebanon's private banks are eager to serve Syria's 17 million people, they still need regulations like a free currency exchange rate and labor laws that allow them to dismiss employees.

The plan's vagueness disturbs automakers, who fear they could see the undoing of provisions they have defended in federal regulations, like a separate mileage standard for S.U.V.'s, pickups and minivans that allows them to consume a third more gas than passenger cars.

Collective agreements and wage regulations like a mandatory minimum wage put a floor in the labour market and thus limit cutthroat competition.

It could also limit the ability to have labor regulations like a higher minimum wage or rules on paid sick days.

A garden designer whose parents were Anglo-Indian Londoners and who chose Morocco as a halfway point to live, Gray clearly knows the city inside-out, down to being able to comment on park litter and planning regulations like an avid member of the local neighbourhood watch.

There isn't a single regulator in the world who has ever advanced his or her career by letting a bank go broke, so the answer to every problem for a regulator is a regulation, like a carpenter and a nail.

When public funds are used to train specialists who then shift to the private sector (potentially to treat medical tourists), redistributive government regulations like paying a fee to leave the public sector (Thailand) may plug a short term financial resource gap, but recruitment and retention is a persistent problem in this region.

The difference meant that Internet providers were not subject to regulation like a telephone company.

Major advertising trade groups proposed in July some measures that they hoped would fend off regulation, like a clear notice to consumers when they were being tracked.