Sentence examples for rules to constrain from inspiring English sources

Instead, he resigned to accept the share options, a signal British finance and business that rules to constrain excessive executive pay in essence don't matter a damn.

Without search neutrality rules to constrain Google's competitive advantage, we may be heading toward a bleakly uniform world of Google Everything — Google Travel, Google Finance, Google Insurance, Google Real Estate, Google Telecoms and, of course, Google Books.

What is unacceptable is that neither Mr. Bernanke nor Mr. Paulson has called for new rules to constrain excessive risk-taking in the financial markets — activities like creating and selling securities backed by utterly reckless loans — even though those risks have greatly contributed to the markets' instability and have repeatedly required government intervention.

European leaders, increasingly concerned by a deteriorating financial picture, said Wednesday they were forming a plan to convince markets that the debts of nations like Italy and Greece were not overwhelmingly large and to set new rules to constrain borrowing by euro zone members.

At the urging of Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, Mr. Volcker clarified that he never intended the rule to constrain market-making.

Most important, at the confirmation hearing Ms. White will have to explain her own goals, values and motives in taking the top S.E.C. job, including her regulatory priorities and her specific views on pending rules, including the Volcker rule to constrain bank speculation and rules on executive pay.

Another concern is that, under pressure from the City, the government is watering down some of the new rules intended to constrain banking excess.

In 2003, Powell got the commission to relax rules designed to constrain the size of media conglomerates, but he was rebuffed by a federal appeals court.

Complex rules may serve to constrain the decision maker, to ensure they are consistent with the way similar cases have been decided.

In part this is a matter of rules and institutions to constrain a leader's power and to allow the aggrieved to find redress.

Whereas, in the other, unstructured class with no rules and nothing to constrain our unfettered imaginations, we would just stand there, blinking in the dazzling light of total freedom, totally immobilised by the lack of any structure and groping for anything familiar to hang on to.