Sentences with phrase «reining in excess»

My assumption was that there is no need to police beyond reining in excess and keeping people civil.

You can manage your cash flow better by reining in excess spending and putting it toward your emergency savings.

... It's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't run amok and doesn't cause the kind of inequities we're seeing.»

The 849 - page Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation, enacted four years ago in 2010, mandated 398 new rules; just 208 of those rules, or 52 percent, have been enacted and none of them seem to be reining in excesses on Wall Street.

«Ministers have spoken of the need for greater shareholder activism but despite the government being the largest shareholder in RBS, have failed to rein in excess.

«This issue has now gone beyond Stephen Hester, this is about a prime minister who promised to rein in excess and says to the country in a time of austerity, when his economic policies have choked off growth, that we are all in it together - how hollow is his rhetoric in light of what we have just seen today.

«As a result of Britain's intervention, the spotlight has now shifted to reining in the excesses of the EU budget,» the prime minister declared as he hailed a British success in rejecting a call from the European Parliament for a 6 % increase in the budget.

John Wells and Tracy Letts reined in the excesses of the original play, and while many viewers were under the impression that Letts was a woman, the whiff of misogyny lingering around his take on dysfunctional matriarchy should have tipped them off.

As Winston's wife Clementine, Miranda Richardson superbly expresses the frustration and weariness of a woman who has spent a lifetime walking in her husband's shadow, reining in his excesses and cleaning up his mess, and trying to do so with unflagging grace and good humour.

The reworked chassis does an admirable job of isolating road noise and manages to rein in excess roll quite well when you arrive in a corner a little too quickly.

Not exact matches

Earning back public trust will mean reining in some of the rhetorical (to say nothing of policy) excesses of the Bush years.

Even worse, just one in three thought that Clegg had reined in the worst excesses of the Conservatives.

To his credit, the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale was trying to rein in some of this BBC excess with a new White Paper.

Understanding it could reduce crime, improve ethical behavior and rein in Wall Street excesses

Before it can trickle into the bloodstream and alleviate inflammation by reining in PGHS - 2, the drug lands with a thud in the stomach, where it knocks out PGHS - 1, causing excess acid secretion and stomach upset or ulcers.

But an excess of levity can quickly become its own kind of leadenness, and for long stretches between its genuinely amusing gags and set pieces, «Thor: Ragnarok,» credited to the screenwriting trio of Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, is a bit too taken with its own breezy irreverence to realize when it's time to rein it in.

Al Pacino reins in his shouty excesses in this simple, slightly underwhelming indie about a lonely Texas locksmith

This dreamy / nightmarish weirdie finds Araki reining in his anarchic excesses with rewarding results, as his satirical sensuality reaps the benefits of a heavily orchestrated deadpan formality.

We have some difficult issues to work through about how we keep what's good about the global internet while trying in rein in some of its excesses.

Perhaps the awful example of Gleick's complete stupidity and fall from Self - Described Hero to Zero in less than a week will give them the focus they need to rein in their worst excesses

Of course, in that case, we'd quickly rein in such excesses because our freedom is so important to us, and losing it to our own government would be as bad as the threat of losing it to terrorists.