But to stop money from overseas companies flowing into the American political process would probably take new legislation, at a time when lawmakers have been unable to agree on any sort of tightening of the rules to limit the all-powerful role of big money in politics.
The agency's deregulation in June 2003 of America's media-ownership rules (which limit the freedom of firms with public-broadcasting licences to buy other media companies) got partially reversed by Congress (in December 2003), and then put on ice altogether by the courts (in June 2004).
Menlo Park zoning rules limit the size of homes in different areas.
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The rules limit the percentage of a given species within the catch, meaning boats had to discard fish even though they had not met their quota.
Unlike a trial, where a judge maintains order and the rules of evidence often limit what can be introduced, the hearings of Congress can be wildly unpredictable.
The rules also limit the number of entrance doors to improve monitoring and require operators to take steps to prevent unregulated sales outside shows, including notifying law enforcement of shows so they can patrol nearby.
As you can imagine, FINRA has passed all sorts of rules and regulations designed to limit, if not eliminate, just such a plan of self financing.
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The United States needs to restore the monetary constitution and adhere to rules that limit the fiscal and monetary powers of government.
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The new laws fortify New York's existing assault weapons ban, limit the number of bullets allowed in ammunition magazines and strengthen rules that govern the mentally ill, which includes a requirement to report potentially harmful behavior.
Harry Reid proposed some new pay-go rules up on the Hill today, tougher rules that would be part of the debt limit raising.
"We agree with the FCC that the goal is to keep all customers happy, but we are concerned that prescriptive and costly rules that limit the creative offerings and competitive nature of the industry may threaten to offset these positive trends, " the group said in a statement e-mailed to CNN.
Some relaxation of either the roll-over rules or the lifetime limit now looks likely.
It is clear that in the late 1990s, there was a culture of pushing the rules as far as they would go, and, for some companies - perhaps a few, perhaps a lot - of pushing the rules beyond the proper or even the legal limit.
The response of the Basel Committee, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission and the G20 has been to devise ever more complicated and more detailed rules to limit the risks to banks and the wider economy of the byzantine complexity of the way banks manage themselves and the astonishing counter-intuitive complexity of products created by financial innovation.
Most importantly perhaps, Mr Bersani would scrap the rules setting a minimum distance between rival businesses that limit competition in much of the retail sector.
He says it would have prevented some of the county's most important zoning decisions, including rules that limit where houses can be built in the mountains near Malibu.
The most important provisions of the rules force marketmakers to fill or broadcast a customer's limit orders to all other marketmakers on the Nasdaq system if it improves on the inside price.
Parents and grandparents can open accounts and the amounts that you can save are substantial because of rules that allow you to contribute an amount equal to the annual gift limit for 5-years in one lump sum (once you do that you cannot gift any money for the next five years).
The new rules will require national governments not only to keep their deficits within the current limit of 3% of GDP, but also to actively reduce their total debt towards 60% of GDP.
Since the study was carried out, the US has introduced new rules to limit the average working week to 80 hours, and maximum shift-length of 24 hours.
Under the old rules, if a government could have been fined for breaching the 3% deficit limit if a majority of EU members voted to do so.
The potential for privacy legislation in Washington has driven the online-ad industry to establish its own rules, which it says are designed to alert computer users of tracking and offer them ways to limit the use of such data by advertisers.
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