Big tech companies must become significantly more responsible, otherwise they will face onerous regulation and harsher taxation.

These are the legislators who would renationalise, introduce price controls, raise punitive taxes and increase onerous regulation.

We are not talking here about onerous regulation or punitive taxation on 'unhealthy' foods, merely the requirement that business falls into line with consumer demands for clear labelling.

The authorities' very anxiety to keep customers safe has made them introduce more and more detailed and onerous regulation.

Bad, hasty and excessively onerous regulation will set that cause back.

Those landlords who offer homes to these undesirables must, it seems, be penalised through more onerous requirements.

They say that the business did not stand a chance because of the onerous requirements to repay outstanding loans while the business was not yet up and running.

Pilots showed that most local authorities struggle to comply with its onerous requirements.

Moreover, there was no attempt to measure the impact of more specific capital proposals such as the plan to impose much more onerous requirements on bank proprietary traders.

Access to the courts, in what are now considered contractual disputes, was consciously restricted to a privileged few through onerous requirements of pleading, formalities and court fees.

In these circumstances, policymakers have an onerous responsibility but an easy message to convey.

Later, as the eldest son, he bore onerous responsibilities.

Junior doctors are frequently skilled professionals with onerous responsibilities who have spent years earning their qualifications.

These onerous restrictions have almost certainly had, at best.

I worry that some think-tanks are disguised as political support without such onerous restrictions.

Taking drastic action now also risks making people fed up with onerous restrictions by the time they become necessary.

Also, banks are introducing onerous restrictions for existing borrowers.

Similar onerous restrictions are regularly imposed for months on end by the terms of police bail on suspects against whom nothing has yet been proved.