Governments establish regulators who set down rules for participants in financial markets and these rules may be perceived as onerous and costly to people in the financial community, but ultimately it's their salvation and it's what makes everything possible.

政府设立监管机构,监管机构为金融市场的参与者,制定法规条令,这些规则对金融界,有着极其严格的约束,但这些规则最终使得金融界运作良好,免遭灭顶之灾

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For any mortgage it's onerous, but for a fixed rate I think it's really difficult.

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She should, in fact, move in the opposite direction-- take a machete to Germany's onerous taxes and regulations.

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Many U.S. and foreign companies are now raising U.S. capital through private placements that skirt Sarbanes-Oxley's onerous rules.

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