Sentence examples for top-down regulations from inspiring English sources

There are no top-down regulations, no federal fuel economy standards — just high prices to enforce market discipline and achieve wiser management of a precious resource.

The European Union, where Green Party politics is a driving force, never found a way to compromise with the United States, where the environmental movement increasingly works with industries to bring change, instead of fighting for strict top-down regulations.

The right says global warming is somewhere between a hoax and a minor irritant, and argues that liberals' thirst for top-down regulations will drive American wealth to developing countries and turn off the fossil-fueled engine powering the economy.

But the White House, in a briefing for reporters, said it had elected not to seek authority for stringent top-down regulations that would require companies to erect specific barriers to computer intrusions — which corporations feared would be enormously costly and soon be outdated.

The current top-down regulations with a "command-and-control" character, while effective in the 1990s, cannot serve this purpose in the information age, the more so since farmers are increasingly well educated and ask too many questions that are not being answered.

So even though cap and trade in the 90s was a Republican-backed market-based proposal that gave companies flexibility as an alternative to top-down regulations, nowadays it's hard to find any Republicans in D.C. to support it.

Ford's answer to what some see as an inconsistency is that it opposes top-down regulation but will respond to consumer-driven market forces.

But as Ms. Jackson is the first to say, legislation addressing climate change would be more effective and inclusive than top-down regulation.

And then the reformers may have to reckon with Mr Shapps, who says he would scrap any attempt at "top-down regulation".

There's already a complex mass of laws – neither the press nor the public needs more top-down regulation – all it does is add layers of complexity and confusion that end up obscuring the public's rights as well as the media's responsibilities.

The finer points of European employment law will be debated, the name of Cesc Fàbregas invoked and those present will divide into two camps: those who believe top-down regulation is necessary to tackle a crisis in the number of young players gaining requisite first-team experience and those who don't.