Sentence examples for silly regulations from inspiring English sources

We all have our favorite examples of silly regulations and bloated bureaucracies.

ALEX KOPPELMAN: Not a bad pivot, though — goes from criticizing silly regulations to defending regulation generally.

But I also met plenty of people running for local office with some good ideas for removing silly regulations and reducing official corruption.

They eased silly regulations - you could eventually get a pass-out from the ground or take in a plastic bottle of water - and dropped prices dramatically in a desperate attempt to put bums on all those brand new seats.

Catherine Crier in "The Case Against Lawyers" doesn't cite that example as she makes her main point: that we the people have ceded power to a corps of lawyers and bureaucrats who are not only smothering us in silly regulations, but are also seizing huge profits for themselves, corrupting the political system and generally undermining freedom and the sense of responsibility.

It's because all the silly regulations make the investment environment so poor.

First, start at the beginning: what subject would Congress be regulating, pursuant to which enumerated power, that would need such a silly regulation to effectuate that power?

This is a great opportunity for lawmakers from both sides to scrap a silly regulation.

To a Japanese technophile schooled in such thinking, the idea of passing up a domestic market for smart cards because it takes time to change a silly regulation seems perverse.Of course, an over-emphasis on technology holds its dangers.

Beer and wine tend to be available at more retail outlets grocery stores and petrol stations, for instance than spirits.Beyond controlSome of the sillier regulations are fading.

Tabloids bang on about silly E.U. regulations (like a supposed ban on reusing jam jars), but referendums are not won on such issues.