For example, by removing those elements that are thought to be in the way of recovery, such as "restraining" home rules.
After Southerners balked, Morris proposed "restraining the rule to direct taxation".
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.
This is about a shift in investment towards higher education, accepting some form of fees, with much more generous bursaries; it's about rethinking rules restraining small and medium-sized firms; and it's about making sure poorer working families get the right incentives.
What can restrain this rule?
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.
(A cartoon by his political opponents after the King's execution in 1649) © In 1657 the more conservative of Cromwell's supporters - the lawyers above all - made another attempt to make him King in an attempt to place him under the restraining influence of ancient rules and restrictions.
Post-war Germany bound itself with rules and treaties in order to resist past temptations: a strong constitution to restrain politicians, fiscal rules to banish hyperinflation, the EU to tame nationalism.The euro zone's crisis has tested the efficacy of these European rules and led Germans to ask why they should pay when others break them.
