burdensome regulation

collocation in English

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burdensome
adjective
uk
/ˈbɜː.dən.səm/us
/ˈbɝː.dən.səm/
causing difficulties ...
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regulation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌreɡ.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌreɡ.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
an official rule or the act of ...
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This means creating a climate that stimulates enterprise, and ensuring that economic activity is not subjected to unnecessary andburdensomeregulation.
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No one wants unnecessary, over-complicated andburdensomeregulation.
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First, we must raise the profile of the problem ofburdensomeregulation.
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We were reassured that there would be noburdensomeregulation.
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They want to be freed from red tape,burdensomeregulationand form-filling.
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It is the system that is creatingburdensomeregulation, and it is the system that requires radical surgery.
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I find a pile ofburdensomeregulation.
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He said that they would not impose burdensome regulations on business because they understood that successful businesses need to keep costs down.
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We need sunset clauses and an independent body to prepare and audit compliance cost assessments of the burdensome regulations.
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In addition, the crisis must not be used as an opportunity to introduce new, excessively burdensome regulations.
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The consultation in 1993 was part of a wider exercise to identify unnecessary or overly burdensome regulations.
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The issue can be solved only by improving the myriad ineffectual and sometimes burdensome regulations.
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We must not impose burdensome regulations on business unless they are absolutely necessary, and we are determined not to do so.
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We should not go over the top and overburden business with burdensome regulations.
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We will respond to the concerns raised about burdensome regulations.
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Consequently, there can by definition be no gateway control and no need for burdensome regulations.
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The teaching profession is being suffocated by the volume of red tape and burdensome regulations.
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The aim, above all, is to remove the current burdensome regulations for small and medium-sized enterprises operating internationally.
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