Sentences with phrase «than red tape»

We were thrilled there was something to write about other than red tape.

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Even in the startup mecca of Silicon Valley, guns remain less regulated than startups, and early stage companies continue to have their feet tied together with red tape, bureaucratic practices, and strict government regulations that limit their potential for growth.

We compete by being more reactive to customer needs than larger companies, which move slower and have more red tape.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

When we joined the EU, it was all about trade and ease of travel, now it's a nasty bureaucracy with more red tape than the FA Cup when Liverpool used to win it.

My biggest concern is that based on both game tape and combine reports, he appears to be playing more because he's good at playing than because he likes playing, and that's always a red flag for me.

«I tried my whole career (at the district) to serve the people of Chicago, to provide expert experience, «Hobson said, «that coupled with a hands - on approach to solving the problems over there, rather than going through this maze of bureaucratic red tape to get the job done.

The reasons, says a panel report to be issued Thursday, include a faster - than - expected process for choosing locations in the boroughs to put replacement lockups, a shrinking inmate headcount and new authority that Albany granted days ago to cut red tape in jail design and building.

Percoco, 49, of South Salem, is charged with taking more than $ 320,000 in payoffs from an energy executive and two Syracuse businessmen, also defendants, for using his clout as Cuomo's right hand man to advance a planned power plant and cut red tape on a state - funded Syracuse project.

Sometimes people forget that there are actual reasons behind principles, rather than it just being meaningless red tape.

This borough's 16,429 small businesses employ 66,300 New Yorkers, but as my Red Tape Commission found, too often government has been a barrier to success, rather than a partner in growth,» New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said.

He added that said customs checks could be even more significant than tariffs, creating huge red tape and bureaucracy if for example a British - made car had to be examined for compliance with every EU regulation at the border.

A genuine «all of the above» approach would expand opportunities for production rather than stifle them, open land for development rather than restrict it, replace confusion and red tape with regulatory certainty, and could position the U.S. as a top global energy producer for decades to while enhancing the energy security of our nation.

Lina says that China's size justifies this scale, and that the opportunity to combine BSL - 4 research with an abundance of research monkeys — Chinese researchers face less red tape than those in the West when it comes to research on primates — could be powerful.

But creating an advisory body focused on eliminating government red tape — a tiny provision in a 996 - page bill to accelerate medical research that could become law next month — is no less important to maintaining the health of the research community than is the infusion of billions of dollars, higher education lobbyists say.

Online designer boutiques have international reach and have a lot less red tape in terms of pricing than the luxury flagships boutiques do.

He is hailed as a national hero but as revelations start to surface about his personal life Whitaker finds himself quickly becoming entangled in the red tape of lawsuits, policy and moral ambiguity leaving him more an anti-hero than a national saviour.

It's an aggressive, toe - tapping ode to the red, white and blue that has everything: James Cagney in full - blown hoofer mode, pro-USA sentiment as thick as hasty pudding, and musical numbers less subtle than a ticker - tape parade led by Uncle Sam.

We encountered a program that: • intends to be responsive to disabled children and their families but is often paralyzed by red tape; • attempts to address the needs of an amazingly diverse group of children yet often relies on standardized approaches and «box checking» oversight; • absorbs more than $ 50 billion a year in public funds yet provides no consistent tracking of its performance.

But it wouldn't shock me if one day we discover that blended learning models like Rocky Mountain Prep are able to deliver special needs services more effectively and efficiently than traditional schools — and with less morale - killing red tape.

Indeed, Mead suggests that the new regulations are more coherent and a bit less burdensome than the tangle of red tape that has accumulated over the decades.

These schools free of the bureaucratic red tape so common in the traditional public sphere — translating to increased teacher freedom in the classroom — have been shown to attract the best and brightest teachers from more prestigious and selective colleges, more so than in non-charter schools.

If you have to wait for the red - tape of a corporate publishing house you will more than likely lose the deal.

You will avoid the red tape of dealing with retailers and you will make much more money per book sale than through either wholesale or retail distribution.

Sure, the short - term lending industry is quite a bit different than the traditional lending industry, but by eliminating a lot of that regulation and red tape of these nontraditional lenders — lenders, in specific — are able to offer their loans to individuals that simply would have been able to get a loan any other way.

There is virtually no «red tape» involved and it includes 100 % financing with no money down, with less stringent underwriting standards and requirements than conventional loans.

Rather than reduce the debt to zero balance on the books or file a lawsuit in court — which requires enormous red tape and, oftentimes, multiple court appearances — many creditors will accept a lesser amount.

Credit unions, which are membership organizations, often have less red tape for borrowers than commercial banks, which tend to be large and bureaucratic.

Instead of there being extra red tape involved in getting a loan despite having bad credit, it's actually faster and simpler than applying for a traditional loan.

SANFORD — To help Seminole County's animal control department cut through bureaucratic red tape, director Bob McIntosh will now report directly to county administrator Ken Hooper, rather than to the county health director, Hooper said Monday.

The reason it is so very expensive in the US is because the government deliberately makes it cost multiple times more than it should with over regulation and government red tape.

With the exception of probably only Google, no firm other than Facebook likely has enough lawyers, lobbyists, and money to deal with layers of red tape and corresponding regulatory compliance headaches that lie ahead.

My personal view is that government does a better job of talking about reducing red tape than actually accomplishing it.

As far as eliminating red tape, it makes sense that a few clicks through a database is easier than having to call up another hospital, talk to someone, and wait for them to send the relevant records to your doctor.

... actual red tape is less than perceived red tape, and that many of the issues raised as examples of red tape, are in fact about relationships, program management practices, and capacity of government agencies, ICCs and funded organisations.

Addressing these problems requires more than providing web - based solutions — as the government found out in May 2006 when Morgan Disney & Associates presented OIPC with their report entitled A Red Tape Evaluation of Selected Indigenous Communities (hereafter the Morgan Disney report).

Streamlining service delivery, enhancing coordination, eliminating duplication, and engaging with local communities rather than having a «one size fits all» approach, laudable as these objectives are, may instead create their own red tape entanglements, establish their own new bureaucratic silos and bump along in a series of half - developed initiatives that do not substantially reduce Indigenous disadvantage.

Of course, accountability is more than what is measured with red tape.

The government could help by cutting the red tape to get shovels into the ground sooner rather than later on these projects.