Word Finder - regulate

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To dictate policy.

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To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.

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To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.

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To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.

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to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time

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To put or maintain in order.

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to regulate one's eating habits

They are essentially instructions on how to make proteins, which are what build and regulate your body.

This again is a matter which the parties may, if they please, regulate for themselves.

In accordance with his suggestion Canning in 1827 introduced a measure on the corn laws proposing the adoption of a sliding scale to regulate the amount of duty.

Parents should regulate their children's networking accounts.

Its chief function was to regulate the trade monopoly conveyed to the borough by the royal grant of gilda mercatoria.

The exceptional dependence of Iowa on eastern markets has given more than ordinary prominence to railway legislation, and the conflict of interests between the railways and the shippers has agitated the state for forty years, various attempts being made to regulate freight rates by legal enactment.

The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string.

The national government reserves for itself the exclusive right to direct the foreign affairs of the republic, to maintain an army and navy, to impose duties on imports, to regulate foreign commerce, to collect port dues, to issue money and create banks of issue, and to maintain a postal and national telegraph service.

They regulate matters concerning public worship and ordinances, and have appellate jurisdiction from the kirk session.

He served in the Congress of the Confederation from 1783 to 1786 and was there conspicuous for his vigorous insistence upon the right of the United States to the navigation of the Mississippi River, and for his attempt, in 1785, to secure for the weak Congress the power to regulate commerce, in order to remove one of the great defects in the existing central government.

This system of State control prevented industries which used grain as their raw material from buying in an open market, and in their case too it was found necessary to regulate supplies by means of an organization analogous to that of the economic associations already mentioned.

The technology is also there to regulate that flow.

A state railroad commission, organized in 1899, has power to regulate railway, steamer, sleepingcar, express, telephone and telegraph rates within the state.

It is much more likely, as Verworn alleges, that the nerves which influence the characteristic function of any tissue regulate thereby the metabolism of the cells in question - in other words, that every nerve serves as a trophic nerve for the tissues it supplies.

The apple pectin helps to regulate the digestive system and to metabolize fatty acids.

These codes show the willingness of boards to regulate themselves, thus forestalling the need for government to intervene with codes of its own.

Scaffold / hoarding License In order to regulate the placing of scaffolding / hoardings on the highway you are required to obtain a license.

Marking foreign meat would probably keep the price of home produce at a level rather than lower it and regulate importation.

However, legal pitfalls are proving to be hurdles for jurisdictions attempting to regulate the industry.

These include components of signaling pathways and ubiquitin ligase proteins that regulate signal receptor trafficking.

Genes are segments of DNA that regulate biological activity.

A passive solar design will regulate the amount of sunlight allowed into the home for optimum thermal mass absorption.

People with OSA may experience a weakened heart rate recovery after exercising, which indicates that the autonomic system's ability to regulate heart rate is out of balance.

Higher fiber foods, such as oatmeal and raw vegetables and fruits are part of a heart-healthy diet and can even help to regulate blood sugar.

It's important to always be under a doctor's or other medical professional's supervision when trying to regulate your diabetes.

Moreover, your liver ceases to effectively regulate fat metabolism, which leads to uncontrolled weight gain and an increasingly larger storage of fat in the liver.

Upbeat tunes can be motivating even for reluctant exercisers, and a well chosen song can help regulate movements and coordination for a more rigorous, consistent workout.

This is where your body gradually grows insensitive to insulin, making it harder and harder to regulate your blood sugar levels.

This company has specific exclusions which regulate what type of yachts they are able to insure, but these exclusions are all listed on their site.

The FDIC was given the authority to regulate banks and to provide deposit insurance.

Only international law could regulate the problem with any real effect.

You want the uniform to wick away moisture as much as possible to help regulate body temperature as you run up and down the field.

This congregation was very much occupied, being empowered to deal with all disciplinary matters concerning both the secular and regular clergy, whether in the form of consultations or of contentious suits; it had further the exclusive right to regulate the discipline of the religious orders and congregations bound by the simple vows, the statutes of which it examined, corrected and approved; finally it judged disputes and controversies between the secular and regular clergy.

But to effect this, and to give permanence to the reformation, he saw that there was need of a more practical code of laws to regulate the details of the daily life, as a supplement to St Basil's Rules.

The accumulation of vast masses of snow, which have gradually been converted into permanent glaciers, maintains a gradation of very different climates within the narrow space that intervenes between the foot of the mountains and their upper ridges; it cools the breezes that are wafted to the plains on either side, but its most important function is to regulate the water-supply of that large region which is traversed by the streams of the Alps.

What is called training is the guiding of the branches of a tree or plant in certain positions which they would not naturally assume, the object being partly to secure their full exposure to light, and partly to regulate the flow and distribution of the sap. To secure the former object, the branches must be so fixed as to shade each other as little as possible; and to realize the second, the branches must have given to them an upward or downward direction, as they may require to be encouraged or repressed.

Attend to the dressing of shrubberies; lay turf-edgings, and regulate the surface of gravel walks.

In this office he set himself to reorganize the army and to regulate the affairs of the country.

These measures for the furthering of education among the people on the part of a government mainly composed of Protestants were received with suspicion and disfavour by the priests, and still more the attempts subsequently made to regulate the education of the priests themselves.

The river often changes its bed, and, notwithstanding repeated attempts to regulate it, offers great difficulties to navigation.

Where their purpose is to regulate the flow of streams, the water should be turned freely into the channels in the dry season, to take the same course under the same laws as the natural flow.

Here it is not enough to regulate the flow of streams. The object of the government is to dispose of the land to settlers who will build homes upon it.

They arc empowered, subject to the limits set by the law, to regulate their own business by means of a general meeting and of elected committees.

It was empowered to arrange the fundamental laws of the confederation; to fix the organic institutions relating to its external, internal and military arrangements; to regulate the trade relations between the various federated states.

No attempt was made, however, to regulate the relations of these coins to the " Austrian " silver coinage; the two issues were not brought into connexion, and every payment was made in silver, unless it was definitely agreed that it should be paid in gold.

If the Hungarian government wished to regulate its relationship to Austria in a more definite form, added the Austrian premier, it must conclude a new agreement before the end of the year 1907, when the reciprocity arrangement of 1899 would lapse.

The attitude may be described as due to prolonged, not very intense, discharge from reflex centres that regulate posture and are probably intimately connected with the cerebellum.

The twenty-five canons adopted regulate the so-called metropolitan constitution of the church.

This uncertainty had been brought about by the conflicting opinions of the jurists of the 6th century as to the proper interpretation to be given to the legislation of the emperor Justinian, from which had resulted a system of teaching which had deprived that legislation of all authority, and the imperial judges at last were at a loss to know by what rules of law they were to regulate their decisions.

After the first Diet of Spires (1526), where a precarious peace was patched up for the reformed faith, Melanchthon was deputed as one of twenty-eight commissioners to visit the reformed states and regulate the constitution of churches, he having just published a famous treatise called the Libellus visitatorius, a directory for the use of the commissioners.