antiregulatory love

Definitions

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  • adjective That disapproves of excessive regulation
  • adjective biology That counteracts a regulatory process

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Examples

  • The pharmaceutical industry hopes to hold on to concessions it won from Democrats during their recent brief reign in Congress, while benefiting from antiregulatory sentiment among Republicans who captured the House, industry lobbyists said.

    Drug Makers See Benefits in GOP Gains Alicia Mundy 2010

  • The usual suspects of the social and fiscal conservatives that comprised the Moral Majority (later the religious right) alongside the tax-trimming, antiregulatory types have found a new political niche and marketing moniker.

    Wayne Trujillo: The Tea Party: Is It A Revival of American Ideals or Merely Alice in Wonderland? 2010

  • The usual suspects of the social and fiscal conservatives that comprised the Moral Majority (later the religious right) alongside the tax-trimming, antiregulatory types have found a new political niche and marketing moniker.

    Wayne Trujillo: The Tea Party: Is It A Revival of American Ideals or Merely Alice in Wonderland ? 2010

  • For decades, industry and academics with an antiregulatory bent have used every opportunity to tilt cost-benefit analysis in their favor, while environmentalists refused to participate in the debate.

    Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore: Sotomayor's "Green" Decision 2009

  • This peanut butter recall has been yet another reminder that the FDA, like so many other government watchdog agencies, was "one of many hobbled by the Bush administration's antiregulatory efforts," as a New York Times editorial put it yesterday.

    Scott Dodd: I Was a Victim of the Peanut Butter Recall 2009

  • Over the years, federal agencies have been defunded, their workers have grown dispirited, their managers, drawn in many cases from antiregulatory organizations, have seemed to care far more about industry than the public.

    Why Congress Won't Investigate Wall Street 2009

  • The office became an antiregulatory hub under President Ronald Reagan but faded in influence under President Bill Clinton.

    Sunstein's Ideas at Work in U.S. Policy 2009

  • CARVILLE: Well, it might be but that would assume that young people didn't remember that it was the Republican Party that started piling all of the debt, the antiregulatory pro-corporate policies and things that are effectively causing all of this debt, that they got us in the war that they never thought about.

    CNN Transcript May 5, 2009 2009

  • The left says global warming is a real-time crisis requiring swift curbs on smokestack and tailpipe gases that trap heat, and that big oil, big coal and antiregulatory conservatives are trashing the planet.

    Joseph Romm: Gingrich, Climate, and the New York Times 2008

  • The Chamber and the National Association of Manufacturers have stuck largely to an antiregulatory agenda.

    Political Pendulum Swings 2008

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