Word Finder - regulated

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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

There were civil laws which regulated clothing, food and social festivity.

This is why, besides the disciplinary measures which regulated the elections, the celebration of divine service, the periodical holding of diocesan synods and provincial councils, are found also decrees aimed at some of the "rights" by which the popes had extended their power, and helped out their finances at the expense of the local churches.

The character of the vestments, the method of putting them on, and the occasions on which they are severally to be worn, are regulated with the minutest care in the Missal and the Caeremoniale.

His conduct was evidently regulated by strict principle and not by mere caprice.

Sources of blood and blood products are regulated and screened for infectious substances and were as of 2004 much safer.

Those that live in strictly regulated states may be more prone to being visited by an inspector than those who live in more loosely regulated states.

In the Lithuanian provinces the relations of the masters and serfs were regulated in the time of Nicholas by what were called inventories.

The sale of intoxicating liquors is for the most part regulated by licences, but the granting of licences may be prohibited within any town or incorporated village by its legal voters, and the question must be submitted to popular vote upon the request of ten legal voters.

Because CPAPs are a medical device, they are approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and regulated for safety.

In addition, blood glucose and amino acid availability for growth is also regulated by the hormones adrenaline, glucagon, and insulin.

Studies have shown that babies whose parents are consistent and sensitive in their responses to distress are less irritable, less anxious, and better emotionally regulated.

Future research should provide doctors with a better understanding of the inflammation process, focusing on how neutrophils are genetically regulated.

However, the majority of states require that providers be regulated if they are watching more than four children.

Many family childcare providers are not licensed or regulated.

The abnormal lymphocytes multiply slowly, but in a poorly regulated manner.

Nopola-Hemmi, et al. "A Candidate Gene for Developmental Dyslexia Encodes a Nuclear Tetratricopeptide Repeat Domain Protein Dynamically Regulated in Brain."

Nutritional supplements claiming to be a cure for AD/HD are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and should not be considered a treatment option without consultation with a medical doctor.

Unfortunately, products that are deemed "all natural" on the label employ a phrase that is not regulated.

Do students perform better when their parents are regulated?

Obviously, there are some states in which parents are very heavily regulated.

Clinical medical assistants may perform tasks that are directly related to treating patients, but job duties are regulated by state law, and may vary from one region to another.

Any other agency falling under the umbrella term of the "federal government," including those organizations supervised, insured, and regulated by the government, are qualified to be lenders.

A Florida mortgage broker license is issued and regulated by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation.

Broker licenses within the state of Texas are regulated and issued by the Texas Department of Saving and Mortgage Lending.

Additionally, dosages of these herbs are not regulated by the FDA and the side effects are not well-known.

The UV swimwear industry is highly regulated, so you can be reasonably sure that the garment you're buying will offer the advertised amount of protection from the sun's rays.

They have been tested and meet all government regulated standards for sun protection.

They further go on to say that self-medicating with over the counter hormone-like supplements, such as DHEA can be dangerous because such products are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

His bull of the 1st of July 1519, which regulated the discipline of the Polish Church, was later transformed into a concordat by Clement VII.

The amount of this pressure is regulated by the screw z'.

The electric lamp a gives illumination of the webs in a dark field, nearly in the manner described for the Cape transit circle micrometer; the intensity of illumination is regulated by a carbon-resistance controlled by the screw b.

He organized the national guard, applied the civil constitution of the clergy, and regulated the finances of the city so as to tax the rich heavily and spare the poor.

The heat of the pipes is great, but can be easily regulated.

Every installation is made up of a boiler or other water heater, a tank or cylinder to contain the water when heated, and a cistern of cold water, the supply from which to the system is regulated automatically by a ball valve.

The book of order, Discipline ecclesiastique des eglises reformees de France, regulated the organization and procedure of the churches.

Before these alterations the relations between the state and the Roman Catholic communion, by far the largest and most important in France, were chiefly regulated by the provisions of the Concordat of 1801, concluded between the first consul, Bonaparte, and Pope Pius VII.

In many cases it arranged the assemblies and ceremonial of the tribe; it regulated marriage, descent and relationship; it ordered blood feuds, it prescribed the rites of hospitality and so on.

He redressed many grievances, regulated the administration of justice, encouraged commerce, reformed the coinage, but as time went on he was compelled to demand larger subsidies and to take severer measures against heretical opinions.

The hydraulic crane has a great advantage in possessing an almost ideal brake, for by simply throttling the exhaust from the lifting cylinder the speed of descent can be regulated within very wide limits and with perfect safety.

The Code also regulated the liquor traffic, fixing a fair price for beer and forbidding the connivance of the tavern-keeper (a female!) at disorderly conduct or treasonable assembly, under pain of death.

As the wire is pulled through, a coating of gutta-percha, the thickness of which is regulated by the die D, is pressed out of the cylinder by applying the requisite pressure

The speed of the ship must therefore be so regulated that the angle of immersion is as great as the inclination of the steepest slope passed over.

In Squier and Crehore's " Synchronograph " system " sine waves of current, instead of sharp " makes and breaks," or sharp reversals, are employed for transmitting signals, the waves being produced by an alternating-current dynamo, and regulated by means of a perforated paper ribbon, as in the Wheatstone automatic system.

By means of several adjusting screws the force and frequency of these blows can be exactly regulated.

The relations between owners and tillers of the soil are still regulated by the ancient forms of agrarian contract, which have remained almost untouched by social and political changes.

Until 1893 the juridical status of the Banks of Issue was regulated by the laws of the 3oth of April 1874 on paper currency and of the 7th of April 1881 on the abolition of forced currency.

These loans are regulated by special disposition, and are guaranteed by a share of the increased value of the land after the improvements have been carried out.

The application of this oral law is called Halakhah, the rules by which a man's daily "walk" is regulated.

The ore is kindled from above and the fire so regulated (by making or unmaking air-holes in the covering) that, by the heat produced References.

When water ballast is employed the water is filled into a tank in the bottom of the wagon or car, its quantity, if passengers are carried, being regulated by the number ascending or descending.