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We don't actually know what Jesus would have done about "light-touch regulation," or if He would have thought that little packets of debt sold on were a bit like loaves and fishes.
Christina Patterson: Thank God Ethics Is A Messy Business Christina Patterson 2011
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We don't actually know what Jesus would have done about "light-touch regulation," or if He would have thought that little packets of debt sold on were a bit like loaves and fishes.
Christina Patterson: Thank God Ethics Is A Messy Business Christina Patterson 2011
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And so we've got no appreciation for the light-touch way of doing things.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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A light-touch approach could make the financial system less safe and increase the chances of a second financial crisis.
Insights from ecologists show ways of preventing economic disaster 2011
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Alternative medicine practitioners are being brought under a light-touch regulatory umbrella that confers legitimacy on them while allowing them to continue business-as-usual free of any requirement to demonstrate the evidence-base for their treatments.
Herbal medicine: the art of regulating without regulating 2011
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And so we've got no appreciation for the light-touch way of doing things.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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The European Commission believes that the banking crisis was caused by light-touch Anglo-Saxon regulation that then affected other EU countries.
Europe's Single Market Isn't a Free Market Philip Booth 2011
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He admits that he was wrong about light-touch City regulation; he accepts that, with employment more buoyant than he had anticipated, his anxiety about Alistair Darling's cuts in 2009 and, more opaquely, his no-cuts leadership election position last year were wrong.
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And, particularly with the Department of Justice's recent aggressive stance with regard to the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, all eyes are on what comes next: Will U.S. innovation policies become more restrictive or continue to build on the proven success of consumer-guided progress coupled with light-touch regulation?
Jonathan Spalter: Connecting America's Jobs Plan to the Mobile Future Jonathan Spalter 2011
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So they are really more "light-touch" client vs. "zero-touch," as some would lead you to believe.
Beware The Lure Of The Zero Client Tom Flynn 2010
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