Sentence examples for regulatory leeway from inspiring English sources
Allied is one of the few companies with the financial strength and the regulatory leeway to bid alone for Seagram's liquor business, and it is not ruling out that possibility, a person close to the company said.
From this viewpoint, the transnational activities of subnational actors are strategies to either defend autonomy and competences or to compensate for the loss of regulatory leeway using nonregulatory means of governance.
In applying "strict scrutiny," the highest level of First Amendment protection, to cable programming, Justice Kennedy identified what he called a "key difference" between cable and broadcast television and radio, for which the court has applied a lower level of scrutiny and permitted more regulatory leeway.
Only the most general waffle about market conditions is tolerated by twitchy compliance lawyers.Critics of laxer rules say it will overturn the grand bargain under which high financiers gained regulatory leeway in return for not peddling whizzy products to widows and orphans.
In practice, however, such regulatory strategies leave considerable leeway in the manner in which clinical biobanking initiatives are governed.
One thing is already clear about how President-elect George W. Bush intends to govern the nation: state and local officials will have far more leeway to shape and operate the full range of federal social, regulatory and public works programs.
Reading the natural gas articles, I was struck by how several of the root causes that led to the Deepwater Horizon blowout -- a lax regulatory environment, understaffed agencies, minimal fines for infractions, constant pressure on Congress to minimize safety concerns and give industry broad leeway -- are present onshore as well.
The current system allows great leeway to national regulators, who, operating in the role of "lead regulator," would exercise a strong sway over banking regulatory issues that affect an E.U.-wide bank considered to be within their jurisdiction.
The bureau has some leeway.
LEEWAY COTTAGE, by Beth Gutcheon.
