Sentence examples for regulatory lapse from inspiring English sources

Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission acknowledge that investors were burned by Metropolitan, but deny that the case represents a regulatory lapse.

That suggests that regulatory lapses went beyond any possible improprieties involving Mr. Lee.

The proposal came as a response to Congressional criticism of regulatory lapses involving Riggs Bank.

But regulatory lapses and excess leverage throughout the system, he says, contributed as well.

"Regulatory lapses elsewhere don't create a justification for the perpetuation of a system that is broken," he said.

In recent months, Mr. Prince has become increasingly frustrated with the seeming drumbeat of ethical and regulatory lapses at Citigroup.

It was even temporarily banned from launching new takeovers in 2005, after a string of regulatory lapses.

President Bush acknowledged that the crisis has already stoked a debate over who was responsible for whatever regulatory lapses were at the heart of the matter.

One is the enormous size and breadth of its businesses, which allows for ethical and regulatory lapses on the part of employees to slip through the cracks.

Congress must also be prepared to investigate large or particularly disruptive bankruptcies to identify both possible unlawful activity and regulatory lapses.

The bitter fruits of that distortion are evident all around, most obviously in the regulatory lapses that contributed to economic calamity.