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- adjective Opposing
regulation .
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Examples
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"The bill doesn't stem the tide of illegal immigration," said Andrew Langer, president of the Institute for Liberty, an antiregulation group.
E-Verify Bill Against Illegal Workers in Doubt Miriam Jordan 2011
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The Gardasil controversy has resurfaced as Mr. Perry is positioning himself not only as an antiregulation job creator, but also as a religious conservative on social issues.
Perry Says Vaccine Order Was Mistake Alicia Mundy 2011
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If the Democrats really want to build on these gains, they would make Rand Paul the new Newt, hold up his extreme antiregulation views as the GOP's party line and hammer the Republicans for aiding and abetting financial fraud and crony capitalism.
Rand Paul's Gospel 2010
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Yet Mr. McCain has sold himself to many voters as an agent for change, despite his party's unpopularity after years of dominating in Washington, and despite his own antiregulation stances of past years.
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For example, on September 28, 2008, a New York Times editorial blamed the current financial crisis on "antiregulation disciples of the Reagan Revolution."
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President George W. Bush, continuing his campaign against any protection of the people/environment from corporate looting/pa-looting, is apparently going to nominate a screaming antiregulation fiend as the head of the powerful Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Think Progress » Bush Nominates Anti-Regulatory Zealot To Head ‘Super-Powerful’ Public Safety Office 2006
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The sentiment is a far cry from Sen. McCain's antiregulation record.
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Another challenge: Professional women are naturally higher-income than their nonprofessional peers, putting them squarely in the traditional low-tax, antiregulation territory of the Republican Party.
Friends of Hillary 2007
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The executive order that the President signed is not proregulation and it is not antiregulation, it's smart regulation -- regulations that achieve their objectives with the least possible burdens on society.
On The Record Regulatory Briefing ITY National Archives 1993
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For people like Ms. Warren - people who warned that we were heading for a debt crisis before it happened - threaten, by their very existence, attempts by conservatives to sustain their antiregulation dogma.
NYT > Home Page By PAUL KRUGMAN 2011
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