arm's length relationship

Transport has so many social implications of one kind or another that there can never be an arm's length relationship.

Other auto makers have more arm's length relationships with dealers.

"We have an arm's length relationship with them," he said, adding that Follett must submit bids just as other private book vendors do.

The relative safe-haven status enjoyed by both economies reflects, at least in part, the arm's length relationship with the euro.

Indeed, Mr. Farkas said he intentionally keeps an arm's length relationship with the company.

Glaxo Group owned the ranitidine patent and would have owned it even if the appellant had been in an arm's length relationship.

Indeed, New Hampshire residents prefer an arm's length relationship not just with Washington but also with Concord, their state capital.

It has an arm's length relationship with the Neu Reich and is very aloof to the British Empire.

New legislation was introduced creating the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a crown corporation with an arm's length relationship with the government.

Others, like the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have chosen an arm's length relationship, leaving the fraternity problem to local prosecutors.

The arm's length relationship between the escort and the escort agency is designed to protect the escort agency (to some degree) from prosecution for breaking laws against prostitution.

The spot was paid for by the Republican National Committee but was produced by an independent expenditure group that is supposed to have an arm's length relationship with the actual campaigns.

I am an advocate of an arm's length relationship with a Labour government and I have no desire to be knocking the door of No 10 on a whole range of issues.'

Moreover, the tiny United States diplomatic mission in Asuncion, the capital, has long maintained an arm's length relationship with the dictatorial regime of General Rodriguez's predecessor, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner.

The dilemma, he adds, is that 'reinforcement of the parliamentary accountability of these organisations would also entail a strengthening of ministerial control over them', so destroying the arm's length relationship with all its attendant advantages.

Significantly, they seem likely to bear many of the problems (such as accountability) already associated with non-departmental public bodies, as well as many of the hallmarks: the delegation of functions to specialist agencies, broad policy determined by government; and an arm's length relationship with departments.