verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
regulate an industry (=control an industry so that it does not make unfair profits)
▪ A new agency was created to regulate the telecommunications industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ Computerized systems have reduced the amount of skill required by many engineers and their performance is closely regulated.
▪ On Mendip, lead mining was also important and, like Dartmoor's tin industry, this was closely regulated.
properly
▪ There should be official training courses for headhunters, she suggested, and the industry should be properly regulated.
strictly
▪ Transport arrangements within the market are strictly regulated.
▪ In both cases, the total expenditure on advanced further education could be strictly regulated.
▪ Busy, yes, but since everything is strictly regulated, there's bed-space for nearly everyone.
▪ Within these councils, social services were strictly regulated.
tightly
▪ It allows some funds to be clawed back from the Treasury-to be spent on tightly regulated projects.
▪ The financial information on credit reports, such as bank accounts and loans, is tightly regulated.
▪ Reason that is disengaged and tightly regulated would starve other human faculties, they believed.
▪ Plasma magnesium concentration in humans is very tightly regulated.
■ NOUN
act
▪ It is these terms and conditions in conjunction with the Partnership Act which will regulate the running of the enterprise.
▪ We must enact as soon as possible the National Human Welfare Act in order to regulate the use of humans in research.
activity
▪ This was despite the government's stated aim that the definition of regulated activities should be sufficiently clear to avoid unnecessary registration.
▪ It involves the use of celestial recurrences for the practical purpose of regulating daily activity.
▪ Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour.
▪ This suggests that this site plays an important role in regulating c-Jun activity.
▪ Conclusion Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity.
▪ Its role is to oversee and regulate the activities of the different financial institutions.
affair
▪ They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like.
attempt
▪ This is an anti- inflationary attempt to regulate the economy in conditions of monopoly and where there is an absence of competition.
▪ That editorial reflected a realistic assessment of the dilemma created by any government-sanctioned attempt to regulate salaries.
authority
▪ State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes.
▪ The following cases examine the scope and limits of school authority to regulate different types of student publications.
▪ Further, slavery was a local practice which the national government had no authority or right to regulate.
behaviour
▪ This is an example of folklinguistics regulating real linguistic behaviour.
▪ They regulate the interpretation of behaviour and hence make it at least very difficult for evidence to count against them.
▪ Although advisory at present such protocols could be used to regulate clinician behaviour.
▪ Social roles regulate and organize behaviour.
▪ Obviously the State has an interest in regulating the behaviour of its citizens.
▪ These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself, they also regulate linguistic behaviour.
body
▪ Which rather begs the question-shouldn't there be a governing body that regulates such questionable decisions?
▪ Hot flashes are associated with reduced estrogen production and the way the body regulates temperature.
▪ It is very important to realize that the body regulates itself very effectively in terms of its sleep requirements.
▪ We can also start to take advantage of the compounds in the body that regulate fat.
▪ Second, we establish which recognised supervisory body is responsible for regulating these firms.
business
▪ The criminal law as it relates to the catering industry is more a means of regulating the standards of business practice.
commerce
▪ Congress is given power to regulate such commerce in unqualified terms.
▪ There is no analogy, then, between the power of taxation and the power of regulating commerce....
▪ But the power to regulate foreign commerce is necessarily exclusive.
▪ Louis, Missouri, introduced a resolution which requested a committee investigation based on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
▪ That the power to regulate commerce includes the regulation of navigation, we consider settled.
commission
▪ The Federal Communications Commission began to regulate rates for the first time.
▪ The commission regulates foreign and domestic shipping in the United States.
company
▪ The question therefore arises: should we also regulate companies that take the public's money as prepayments?
▪ The new commission would distribute power to the municipalities and it would also regulate the private companies.
▪ This places the emphasis on regulating companies rather than products and offers a wider choice to consumers.
conduct
▪ These duties seek to regulate the conduct of partners and promote good faith between them.
▪ In addition the assembly made the vital decisions regulating the communal conduct of agriculture.
▪ The idea that harm is a basis upon which to regulate conduct is often attributed to John Stuart Mill.
drug
▪ The agency does have primary responsibility by law, however, for regulating medical or drug delivery devices.
economy
▪ This is an anti- inflationary attempt to regulate the economy in conditions of monopoly and where there is an absence of competition.
▪ The challenge is to regulate the global economy to allow development at the local level.
effort
▪ The effort to regulate HMOs hit a snag in the recent legislative session, when Gov.
fda
▪ First, it argues that Congress has declined repeatedly to give the FDA authority to regulate tobacco.
flow
▪ An on/off switch on the dashboard controls the petrol pump, and a hand-operated gas-valve regulates the gas flow.
▪ Jay knew how to regulate the flow, to ask questions, to make suggestions, to focus and direct our energy.
gene
▪ The products of regulatory genes are only involved in regulating other genes and their products do not serve any other function.
government
▪ Some important areas of government activity were regulated by the royal prerogative hut could not be controlled by ultravires. 2.
▪ House-passed measures restricting the power of the federal government to regulate health, safety and environment also stalled in the Senate.
▪ Further, the justification that channel scarcity requires the government to regulate the content of broadcasting no longer exists.
▪ This includes the responsibility of government to regulate market forces in the interests of the whole community.
▪ C., amid continued disagreement over how strictly the government could regulate nicotine levels in cigarettes.
▪ In education, local government, and health the government has intervened and regulated on a large scale.
▪ It could provide data for other endeavors and possibly influence government codes regulating flood control.
industry
▪ There should be official training courses for headhunters, she suggested, and the industry should be properly regulated.
▪ Transportation, communications, and electric and other utilities are illustrations of industries which are regulated in varying degrees.
▪ But he is vague about how to enforce this; essentially he would trust the industry to regulate itself.
law
▪ Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour.
▪ The current round of bargains comes before a new commerce law takes effect, regulating the discounts.
▪ Public and administrative law Law can prohibit or regulate activities: The citizen can obey or break the law.
▪ Occupational health laws regulate toxic substances in the work environment.
▪ By observation we can probe this world and attempt to discern the laws which regulate it.
▪ Although no state has laws on the book regulating their use, some have legislation pending.
▪ National laws regulating domestic transactions are either considered adequate or, if not, are thought best changed by domestic legislation.
▪ Various laws were promulgated to regulate the practice.
legislation
▪ Also on Oct. 15 the Sejm approved legislation regulating television and broadcasting and allowing for commercial stations.
level
▪ For the businessmen the codes offered the means to regulate levels of production and prices.
▪ C., amid continued disagreement over how strictly the government could regulate nicotine levels in cigarettes.
▪ To date, diabetics rely largely on insulin medication, discovered in 1921, to regulate their blood glucose levels.
life
▪ What is of relatively recent origin, however, is the creation of bureaucracies equipped with legal sanctions to regulate economic life.
market
▪ But is there the necessary political will to regulate the markets?
▪ Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to accelerate the transition of telephone and video services from regulated to competitive markets.
▪ In addition to the tithing system and the gleaning laws, redistribution is also achieved through regulating the capital market by prohibiting usury.
▪ But giant telecommunications firms that have already pledged tens of billions for highway construction favor a less regulated market.
▪ Congress on Oct. 1 approved legislation giving the Securities and Exchange Commission extensive new powers to regulate markets and combat fraud.
▪ How do governments intervene to control that technology, foster innovation or regulate the market?
▪ This includes the responsibility of government to regulate market forces in the interests of the whole community.
▪ On July 29, a system of coupons was introduced to regulate the market of basic consumer goods in high demand.
matter
▪ Successive statutes, principally the Bankruptcy Acts and the Companies Acts, contained provisions regulating this subject matter.
▪ Likewise the drinking straw would have to regulate its volume no matter how hard one sucked.
mechanism
▪ The body has to have control mechanisms to regulate all its functions.
▪ Equilibration is the internal mechanism that regulates those processes.
▪ At the international level Aglietta argues that the principal mechanism regulating the economic relations between national states is the international financial system.
▪ Similarly, homeostatic mechanisms that regulate the extracellular environment may be affected by characteristics of the cell surface.
power
▪ Congress on Oct. 1 approved legislation giving the Securities and Exchange Commission extensive new powers to regulate markets and combat fraud.
▪ If Congress has the power to regulate it, that power must be exercised whenever the subject exists.
▪ Congress is given power to regulate such commerce in unqualified terms.
▪ It would not be argued to-day that the power to regulate does not include the power to prohibit.
▪ There is no analogy, then, between the power of taxation and the power of regulating commerce....
▪ But the power to regulate foreign commerce is necessarily exclusive.
▪ Louis, Missouri, introduced a resolution which requested a committee investigation based on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
practice
▪ If it does, there is no institution which can intervene to regulate the practice except the police.
▪ The author imagined assisted suicide to be a heavily regulated practice, to prevent abuse.
▪ Various laws were promulgated to regulate the practice.
price
▪ There are similar provisions in relation to individual restrictions regulating minimum resale prices or charges as between a manufacturer and a retailer.
▪ In such cases, governments can grant a private monopoly and regulate its prices, or they can create a public monopoly.
process
▪ Inspectors previously specialised in particular areas of pollution control will be expected to regulate industrial processes presently outside their experience.
▪ Equilibration is the internal mechanism that regulates those processes.
▪ It is through its regulation of intracellular calcium that InsP 3 functions to regulate so many cellular processes.
rule
▪ Schools have the right to establish reasonable rules regulating the time, place, and manner for distributing all student publications.
state
▪ In states that regulate group size, some standards permit 20 infants in a room, she said.
▪ The proposal would violate new state standards which regulate Delta pumping.
▪ Can the state regulate private religious schools?
▪ Firstly, member states regulate their banks.
supply
▪ Industrial labour was at last being regulated, water supplies purified, hospitals sanitised and prisons reformed.
▪ Reservoirs, wells and canals demonstrate the ability to regulate water supply.
system
▪ Would it be more sensible to intervene through the tax system than to regulate quantities directly?
▪ By altering the brain, caffeine automatically alters all systems regulated by the brain.
use
▪ Hence criteria to regulate and deploy their use become increasingly urgent.
▪ We must enact as soon as possible the National Human Welfare Act in order to regulate the use of humans in research.
▪ Although no state has laws on the book regulating their use, some have legislation pending.
■ VERB
seek
▪ These duties seek to regulate the conduct of partners and promote good faith between them.
▪ Some of its most significant early relations were with the guild merchant, which sought to regulate the conditions of urban trade.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A hand-operate switch is used to regulate the gas flow.
▪ Meat and poultry are regulated by the Agriculture Department.
▪ Sweating helps regulate body temperature.
▪ The drug helps to regulate Ryan's heartbeat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above all, they should not be imposed and regulated by a central power.
▪ And if accountants are not to be commercial, who is it who will regulate their fees, incomes and salaries?
▪ But he is vague about how to enforce this; essentially he would trust the industry to regulate itself.
▪ Industrial labour was at last being regulated, water supplies purified, hospitals sanitised and prisons reformed.
▪ Make sure a company is officially regulated and authorised before you hand over any of your money.
▪ Their wages had been regulated by act of parliament since 1773 and they were awarded an increase in 1795.