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It is common sense to get rid of petty regulations, but to make a real difference we need more freedom and less government.
Saint-Just is dead and his petty regulations went with him.
Like a free pass that let me flout petty regulations.
Doesn't that override all these petty regulations?
"We Green Berets are not bound by the petty regulations that affect lesser mortals. "
The new owner assured the house that her "senatorial privilege" extended to it, providing immunity from the petty regulations of the Apparatus.
"I came here because I was tired of making wine in France, with its petty regulations and crippling costs," he explains.
Governments pump out reams and reams of petty regulations and unenforceable laws.
On and on the petty regulations went-and also the penalties: 'If you break one rule, everything you own will be confiscated.'
Unlike Wall Street, the City of London wasn't hampered by petty regulations, immigration laws or tax regimes.
Jonathon Green similarly defines "jobsworth" as "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations".
The Spanish are fed up with an overbearing bureaucracy that needs a special type of paralegal (a gestor) to find their way through the maze of petty regulations.
Mr Pickles also hit out at petty regulations and heavy-handed enforcement which resulted in householders being fined for minor offences - further building up resentment against the council.
Many, although appreciative of the education they received, felt that their schools were too strict in imposing petty regulations - a comment rarely made by students from mixed or comprehensive schools.
Although he now considered Rowley a friend, and knew that he was scornful of Bendix Schere's petty regulations, he didn't really know how far that scorn went.
The 1850 Act was regarded with horror by the shipowners who saw the observance of petty regulations added to the loss of their rights to carry freight in British bottoms.
Henderson immediately endeared himself to his men by abolishing or relaxing some of the petty regulations imposed by Mayne and his first colleague, Sir Charles Rowan.
In the N.F.L. there are petty regulations about the length of socks, and the Emotion Police penalize whacked-out monsters for celebrating what they were born to do, create a touchdown.
Now that our raison d'etre, helping to win a war, had been removed, we were all counting the days to our release and petty regulations, necessary though they might be, were becoming very irksome.
'The Soviet Union and China are marching towards the open market and here we are, in southern California, the home of Ronald Reagan, talking about tying the economy down with a maze of petty regulations.
Young people, in particular, are expecting, as are we ourselves, a major new policy from the Commission for training, research, culture and the environment, and then also for economic growth and freedom - freedom from bureaucracy and petty regulations.
To disarm reluctant government ministers, the transnationals pointed out that there were other vast reserves in South America, Mexico, and Alaska, and that rather than find themselves restricted with petty regulations they would prefer to spend vast amounts on exploratory research elsewhere.
Nobody, apart from Sir Edward Heath, has any time for the drizzle of petty regulations of the EC nor for the scandal of the Common Agricultural Policy, but all the energies of the Conservative whips are being employed to enforce Euro-allegiance.