web of regulations

The car's success is more or less dictated by a web of regulations that have repressed competition.

In addition, there is now a complex web of regulations where there was none before.

It added two rules to the web of regulations governing deductions for vacation homes.

Since its inception, however, it had developed into a complex web of regulations which prevented civil servants from participating in most political activities.

A Vast Web of Regulations The six officers were in trouble.

Is it true that starting this year all residential sale and lease transactions in the country will have to comply with a new web of regulations?

Another result was also a complex web of regulations and restrictions, overseen by the United States Department of Agriculture.

They note that even with their web of regulations, they have built an export machine and powerhouse economy that much of the world envies.

New Jersey's system of garbage disposal is governed by a complex web of regulations that coordinate the sources, transfer points and final destinations of the trash.

Had the 187 townships in the metro area created a web of regulations that hindered building to such a degree that demand far outstripped supply, driving prices up?

But the Iroquois pipeline is the first major one to be subjected to the complex web of regulations that has grown up since most lines were built 20 and 30 years ago.

But to keep revenues on an even keel while cutting rates, Congress added a web of regulations to curb the many strategies that taxpayers employed to trim their tax liabilities.

In big inner-city schools, it says, "dropout rates are high, morale is low, facilities often are old and unattractive, and school leadership is crippled by a web of regulations."

Instead, Mr. Dinkins has vowed to streamline the city's web of regulations and make it much easier for businesses to navigate the bureaucracy when seeking service, bidding for contracts or obtaining permits.

The debate here, which is similar to the debate in many other European countries, is whether France needs to embrace a more "American" approach by chopping away the web of regulations that protect workers and restrict businesses.

Thomas G. Labrecque, Chase's chairman, said yesterday that Mr. Esposito's position had been created to oversee the bank's efforts to comply with an expanding web of regulations affecting Chase, which operates in 55 countries.

The China Telecom Corporation today abruptly postponed its $3.68 billion initial public offering, which was to have been Asia's biggest deal this year, in response to weak demand and a web of regulations that made it hard to lower the deal's price.

Congress and the states have passed laws in response, and the federal government, which spends $39 billion a year on nursing home care, has subjected the industry to a complex web of regulations, annual inspections and an exhaustive reporting system designed to govern the quality of care.

In a speech last week in New York before the Bond Market Association, Mr. Atkins said, "Underlying all my other concerns is a basic philosophical one, namely we must not allow the American economy to be unduly encumbered by a web of regulations."

The use of pesticides and fertilizers to grow the berries as well as the frequent - and lengthy - flooding of the bogs to eradicate pests is of growing concern to environmentalists and has spawned a web of regulations making it more difficult for growers to expand.

These have recently cast Mr. Delors in the roles of master bureaucrat enmeshing Europeans in a web of regulations, hapless chief executive disavowed by his senior colleagues and devious champion of France masquerading as a disinterested "Mr. Europe."