Investors, torn between being late and being wrong, are restrained by rules of thumb, such as historical analogies and price-earnings ratios for shares.
Xu Li, an official at the Ministry of Communications' transport research institute, agrees that China's infrastructure expansion is not as restrained by rules as it is in America.
The bill has promised to deliver a lighter touch with less regulation, something widely welcomed as overdue and designed to release energies restrained by rules set up for simpler times.
That said, there will always be a risk that, at some point the "humane" low-intensity warfare with designated no-combat zones and codes of conduct could degenerate into a more traditional bloodshed with heavy casualties and no restraining rules.
After preparing a rule in 1221 that was found too strict, Francis, with the help of several legal scholars, unwillingly composed the more restrained final rule in 1223.
For example, by removing those elements that are thought to be in the way of recovery, such as "restraining" home rules.
Behaviours are controlled by the beliefs, norms, values, and assumptions rather than being restrained by formal rules, authority, and the norms of rational behaviour.
Too often they are restrained by the rules and procedures of a bureaucracy the government complains about even as it creates ever more of it.
But, Mr. Brucker said, the suggestion or belief that a condo owner cannot be restrained by the rules of the condo is totally inaccurate.
The strength of the Spanish theatre of the Golden Age was that, while embracing some of the Italian innovations in staging and acting (commedia dell'arte troupes exerted a strong influence in Spain from 1574), it was never restrained by the rules of Classicism.
