A spokesman for Houston-based Reliant Energy, which operates four Southern California plants, told The Los Angeles Times that assertions that environmental regulations were holding back power production were "absolutely false".
Disagreement over reform of the Dublin regulations is holding up progress towards a common European asylum policy, due by the end of 2012.
While none of the executives criticized the Fed, Samuel J. Palmisano, the chief executive of I.B.M., said that uncertainty, particularly over regulations, was holding back businesses, not financial constraints.
"The CBI has always argued that the climate change debate is about a market failure, so for Osborne to imply that environmental regulations are holding business back is not the whole truth".
Even business surveys admit here & here) that anemic consumer demand (not "job-killing regulations") is holding back new job creation and economic recovery.
"Poll after poll of small business owners, of medium-sized business owners -- they will show you and tell you that major regulations are holding back their expansion and the ability of them to hire more workers," Quayle said.
Under the Trump-DeVos program, parents will be able to put tax money into private schools, religious schools, home schools, or virtual schools with little or no regulation of the product they are receiving since Trump has told us over and over that government regulations are holding us back.
Pedicab owners sued, arguing the cap would hurt established businesses, and regulation was held up for two years.
The development of computational approaches that help scientists identify constructive models of pattern regulation is held back by the lack of both flexible morphological representations and a repository for the experimental procedures and their results (altered pattern formation).
For many participants regulation was held up to be a panacea for many of the problems affecting the naturopathic profession – including the growth of external influences ("minimum standards will hold them accountable") and the fragmentation and division within the profession ("what will they have left to fight about?").
