Dodd-Frank imposes Volcker Rule limitations on proprietary trading of derivatives such as futures contracts for oil, copper, grain and on, so the banks go one step deeper and make an end run to avert oversight.
I enjoy writing screenplays because I love telling stories in visual and sound images, but the form has too many rules and limitations.
He was a documentarian more than an élitist — he loved fashion as a playground for personal creativity, and therefore saw it without boundaries, rules, or limitations of taste.
Although a committed supporter of quotas, Fagerland accepts that hard and fast rules have limitations – she describes them as "by no means perfect but still very good".
Instead, in addition to Pressplay and Musicnet, there will be Uplister, Liquid Audio and other competing subscription services that are heavy on rules and limitations.
Yet all rules and limitations seem to get thrown out when a pitcher is chasing an individual milestone, like a no-hitter or a perfect game.
But a lesson of the past century is that government can influence the behavior of big corporations, by requiring transparency about their performance and costs, and by enacting rules and limitations to protect the ordinary citizen.
The kinds of rules and limitations most often proposed — i.e., a ban on military-style weapons of the kind used in the two most recent high-profile gun massacres and in so many others before — wouldn't have an effect on gun violence in America, which tends to be concentrated on handguns, and more typically involves suicides and domestic disputes.
But today, he and his colleagues find themselves with the wind at their backs — and itching to knock down more rules, like limitations on the "soft money" that political parties can raise, individual contributions, and direct corporate fund-raising to candidates.
