The ABA desired to demonstrate that the legal profession could regulate itself and hoped to prevent direct federal regulation of the profession.

The NCF opposed militant labor unions; it also resisted businessmen who sought to entirely prevent regulation.

There are sometimes legislative efforts to prevent regulation through litigation.

The insurance industry is looking at several options to address financial access concerns and prevent greater regulation.

The technical difficulties of detecting such recording activity has prevented effective regulation, Mr. Caming said.

Even if one existed, he said in an interview, "that would not prevent reasonable regulation from being upheld."

The whole point of net neutrality, as I said, is to prevent regulation in order to allow a free market on the internet.

Chief among these stalling tactics is generating scientific uncertainty, "no matter how powerful or conclusive the evidence", in order to prevent regulation.

I ask for your support for our amendments in order to prevent such duplicated regulation.

But she questioned some provisions of the Republican-proposed Risk Assessment Act, which she suggested would slow decision making and perhaps prevent needed regulation.