However, piecemeal regulation could lead to conflicts of interest and threaten the safety of the very system we are trying to modernize.

At the time, Recruit was the leading publisher of job-placement magazines and the new regulations threatened to cost the company money and embarrassment.

And their trade associations have learned to mobilize the troops when hostile legislation or regulation threatens.

But he said that in the two years the proposal was being considered, the regulations have expanded and now threaten the industry's ability to operate properly.

The regulations threaten to disrupt a business valued by major Western financial news providers, including Reuters and Bloomberg, at about $100 million a year.

Instead, their political leaders mostly tell them the regulations threaten home rule and cost a lot of money.

We need to make sure that new regulations in this field do not threaten the benefits of the current system, especially on scientific information.

Without questioning the need to protect consumers and users, the new regulation must not threaten innovation or the diversity of chemical families.

The way things have gone up till now shows that complicated regulations are threatening to lead to deadlock.

Mr Cameron warned that European regulation threatened to condemn nations to "slow growth".