Word Finder - regulators

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A device that controls or limits something.

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The voltage regulator stopped working and the resulting overload destroyed the device.

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A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.

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A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.

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A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.

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A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.

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A bulldozer (member of intimidating group of white US Southerners).

In the following year the Regulators attempted to elect new members to the assembly and petitioned the newly-elected house.

The adjustment of the air currents in the different splits is affected by regulators which are placed in the return air-ways, and act as throttle valves to determine the volume of air in each case.

After the failure of the Regulator insurrection in North Carolina in 1771, hundreds of the Regulators made their way into the wilderness.

For the latter purpose, Westinghouse gas-regulators are employed, the positions of the regulators being so chosen as to equalize the pressure throughout the service.

Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1894); The Regulators of North Carolina (Washington, 1894); and Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1899), are all trustworthy.

This insurrection was in no sense a beginning of the War of Independence; on the contrary, during that war most of Tryon's militia who fought at Alamance were Patriots and the majority of the Regulators, who remained in the province, were Loyalists.

Many regulators have begun to act on the consumer's behalf in this way.

Cooke (ed.), Revolutionary History of North Carolina (Raleigh and New York, 1853), containing a defence of the Regulators.

By the rolling of the cylinders up the vertical bands from the casting the cylinders are raised vertically through a space defined by the position of the leaden regulators.

Now the way forward is being slowed by increasing trepidation on the part of regulators.

There was a trepidation on the part of regulators.

Regulators will need to consider enforcement action against any operator failing to comply.

In 1997, Microsoft was so disdainful of federal bureaucrats that it created a Web site specifically to keep regulators at bay.

Pesticides include fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators.

Regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) 1 and 16 are induced in response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide and stimulate c-fos promoter expression.

Once regulators get has health hmo insurance medical PPO an offer appear to affect.

Ofcom, the newly converged communications regulator, currently costs more than the five regulators it replaced.

The achaete-scute genes encode transcriptional regulators bearing a bHLH motif whose expression endows cells with neural potential.

Directors are being targeted by disgruntled shareholders, regulators, auditors and other claimants.

There are some interesting experiments which can be done with growth regulators to investigate their effect on the growth of potato stolons.

She is part of a local research collaboration developing novel therapeutics targeting regulators of tumor invasion.

The regulators ' role will become one of helping to transfer best practice from the good to the bad and the plain ugly.

Instead, the kidneys, acting as regulators, excrete vitamin C causing the need for regular replenishment.

Regulators should not be too wedded to their own interpretation but recognize that different reflections of the same regulatory principles can be equally valid.

To his surprise and delight, the same compounds that block pumps also bind these transcriptional regulators -- a potential double whammy.

Governor Tryon manifested no sympathy for the oppressed and sought only the thorough suppression of the disturbance, which was organized in the spring of 1768 by Regulators, " for regulating public grievances and abuses of power."

Elude state regulators least the comparison panel in table a larger effect.

Their goal is to frighten the public and intimidate regulators into further tightening the already stultifying regulation of biotechnology.

His major focus has been on signal transduction inhibitors, and on the regulators of cell cycle checkpoints and modulators of apoptosis.

There are countless wild-eyed men and women pacing the Thames Embankment, all former regulators, who tried that.

Regulators and managers actually determine which investors have the funds and have the investment experience to warrant their investment in the funds.

Flea treatment medications that contain Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) or Insect Development Inhibitors (IDIs) act only on the insect and will not adversely affect the cat.

Each type has specific fittings, regulators, supply lines and burners that are made to be used with one type of gas.

In 2007, food safety regulators in Ohio have come out more than once saying they are seeing more small-time food stands, Amish community members and tiny farms selling homemade goods to the public.

After coming under investigation by food safety regulators, this woman put the foods in an unplugged icebox and adds ice cubes.

According to most people's common sense, this is not proper food handling safety in action; yet her customers are angry that she's even been targeted by safety regulators.

Finally, LP gas systems include tanks, hoses, regulators and valves.

These three are big mood regulators, and many antidepressant drugs target them and other neurotransmitters to alleviate depression.

Regulators control another person's speech (e.g., knitting eyebrows as if to say, "Time to shut up, dear.").

Some consumers reported that the windows would fall down on their own, and many people reported having to replace the window regulators on the car.

Have any of the window regulators been replaced?

The NAIC mission statement is to assist state insurance regulators in protecting insurance consumers and promoting market competition within each state.

At that time many were in serious disrepair, but most of them have been greatly improved by the construction of proper regulators and sluices.

The members accidentally discovered that the fear of it had a great influence over the lawless but superstitious blacks, and soon the club expanded into a great federation of regulators, absorbing numerous local bodies that had been formed in the absence of civil law and partaking of the nature of the old English neighbourhood police and the ante-bellum slave patrol.

The Regulators agreed to pay no more taxes until satisfied that they were in accordance with law, and to pay nothing in excess of the legal fees.

Although the Regulators assembled to the number of about 3700 they were not prepared to withstand the governor's force and again submitted without bloodshed, there being only a few arrests made.

But as little had been accomplished when the superior court met at Hillsboro, Orange county, in September 1770, the Regulators became desperate again, whipped the chief offender, Colonel Edmund Fanning, and demolished his residence.

These riotous proceedings provoked the second military expedition of the governor, and on the 16th of May 1771, with a force of about r000 men and officers, he met about twice that number of Regulators on the banks of the Alamance, where, after two hours of fighting, with losses on each side nearly equal, the ammunition of the Regulators was exhausted and they were routed.

In the next month some pro-slavery men presented claims to a part of the land, projected a rival town to be called Excelsior on the same site, and threatened violence; but when Lawrence had organized its "regulators" the pro-slavery men retired and later agreed to a compromise by which the town site was limited to 640 acres.

To the bottom of each cylinder is rigidly attached a heavy solid cylinder of lead, and these are the regulators of the position of equilibrium of the cylinders when they rotate under the action of the load..