Shahzeydo reflects Shahzeydo With one regressive law Jordanian bureaucracy puts a leash on Jordan's knowledge economy.

Examples are the compulsory use of a leash when bringing a dog, or daytime access only.

So pressure outside the US and Britain to put the hedge fund industry on a tighter regulatory leash is hardly surprising.

Instead, bottlenecks are developing elsewhere, as in oil. It may well be that easy financing has given economies a longer leash.

When I was 22 years old, I came home from work, put a leash on my dog and went for my usual run.

But in a labor strong society, dominant shareholders those with the most to lose if expansion goes awry have reason to keep managers on a short leash.

She will govern a country with substantial public debt (60 of GDP), a volatile currency, and high inflation. Nervous financial markets will keep the government on a tight leash.

She wrote all her own software to design and built this DNA origami, a beautiful rendition of China, which even has Taiwan, and you can see it's sort of on the world's shortest leash, right?

Because supervisors decisions affect individuals property rights and their actions or omissions can put taxpayers on the hook to bail out banks governments, parliaments, and the courts are bound to hold the watchdogs on a tight leash.

I believe that, on the contrary, this would be an advantage in the current exceptional circumstances, because it would keep the Italian and Spanish governments on a short leash no country concerned could afford to lose the ECB facility.

In the case of Italy, the short leash would dissuade former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from seeking to topple Mario Monti s new government (which has only a fragile majority), because if Berlusconi precipitated an election, the electorate would punish him.

As the Soviet Union steadily disintegrated, with virtually all of its 15 republics straining at the leash, Yeltsin gained the leadership of the largest the Russian Federation which placed him in a tactical alliance with independence campaigners in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Georgia.

Ordinary Libyans have also advocated keeping women on a short leash. A college age Libyan woman s father recently denied her the opportunity to accept a scholarship from the US State Department to attend a training workshop in Washington, DC, because he could not accompany her overseas.