Sentence examples for soften restrictions from inspiring English sources

Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who heads the Senate Banking Committee, and other lawmakers have asked regulators to soften restrictions on the mortgages and mortgage bonds that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy.

In a concession to nations seeking to soften restrictions on Iraq, the Clinton administration agreed today to reduce the amount of money being set aside to compensate victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Robert Temple, deputy director for clinical science at the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said that the vote to soften restrictions "came in multiple flavors," and that the agency would incorporate all the panelists' suggestions in its final decision.

The House also passed a related measure softening restrictions on travel to the island, and the Senate seems poised to do likewise.

The reports appear to focus on softening restrictions on lever-action shotguns in exchange for support from the Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm to pass industrial relations legislation.

There has been some discussion among Republican lawmakers about softening restrictions in the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the armed forces from engaging in police activities inside the United States without authorization from Congress or the president.

Thirteen members of a 26-member Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted to soften the restrictions on the drug, Avandia, which has gone from being one of the industry's biggest blockbusters to a marginalized drug used by a few thousand people.

More recently, attempts by the New York Fed and A.I.G. executives to soften pay restrictions included references to the company's condition that some thought should have been disclosed to shareholders.

Ultimately, the White House relented and softened export restrictions.

This should be a reason for the Pentagon to soften its press restrictions.

Senator McCain almost certainly represented the majority view in Cuban Miami when he insisted, in a speech there in May, that to soften the travel restrictions or the limits on remittances "would send the worst possible signal to Cuba's dictators — there is no need to undertake fundamental reforms; they can simply wait for a unilateral change in U.S. policy".