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Example sentences for "regulate the"

  • Fiars Court, so as to regulate the payment of stipend, rent, and prices not expressly agreed upon.

  • Further to regulate the rate of burning so that it shall be slow at first and more rapid as the powder is consumed, another form of machine was devised, the cam press, in which the pressure is applied very rapidly to the powder.

  • Improved materials and methods of manufacture, and what is known as "choke" boring of the barrels, have enabled modern gun-makers to regulate the shooting of guns to a nicety.

  • Too much hay or straw cannot be allowed, but, on the other hand, it is difficult to regulate the quantity of the finer articles.

  • The food, however, I alter; and by gentle aperients I endeavor to regulate the bowels.

  • That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc.

  • The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.

  • A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc.

  • The above quoted act assumes that congress has full power to regulate the connection of railroads in the different states, as well as the carrying trade upon the same.

  • Notes: [57] I understand by the law of descent all those laws whose principal object it is to regulate the distribution of property after the death of its owner.

  • The principal object, therefore, of the law of entail is to regulate the descent of property after the death of its owner: its other provisions are merely means to this end.

  • But a democracy is unable to regulate the details of an important undertaking, to persevere in a design, and to work out its execution in the presence of serious obstacles.

  • They were not appointed to constitute the government of a single people, but to regulate the association of several states; and, whatever their inclinations might be, they could not but divide the exercise of sovereignty in the end.

  • The attempt, therefore, to regulate the contributions of the members of a confederacy by any such rule, cannot fail to be productive of glaring inequality and extreme oppression.

  • Concerning the Power of Congress to Regulate the Election of Members From the New York Packet.

  • They were to make treaties with the Indians, regulate the affairs of the colonies as a whole, levy taxes, build forts, and raise armies.

  • Authority to charter the bank was found in the provision of the Constitution giving Congress power to "regulate the currency.

  • Footnote a: I understand by the law of descent all those laws whose principal object is to regulate the distribution of property after the death of its owner.

  • Only one Act received the royal assent, that to regulate the trial of controverted elections.

  • It is difficult to regulate the fees of court effectually, where a person so powerful as the sovereign is to share in them, and to derive any considerable part of his revenue from them.

  • In ancient times, too, it was usual to attempt to regulate the profits of merchants and other dealers, by regulating the price of provisions and other goods.

  • In the fourth and last place, I shall endeavour to shew what are the circumstances which regulate the rent of land, and which either raise or lower the price of all the different substances which it produces.

  • Whenever the law has attempted to regulate the wages of workmen, it has always been rather to lower them than to raise them.

  • If we carry a watch to a watchmaker, and undertake to show him how to regulate the machinery, he laughs and goes on his own way; but if a brother-machinist makes suggestions, he listens respectfully.

  • This project to regulate the press by L'Estrange, chiefly turned on the dexterous management of the printers.

  • Middlesex and Surrey were then to regulate the idiom of all British men!

  • The system consisted in doubling the consonant after a short vowel to regulate the pronunciation.

  • And in Rome the sun-dials, the clepsydras and the hour-glass were used for the same purpose, and more generally than in Greece, to regulate the hours of business and pleasure.

  • Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed.

  • There is a contest going on amongst us, as it is going on all over the world, between the hard imperious laws which regulate the production of wealth, and the aspirations of benevolence for the increase of human happiness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cabinet government; close range; county treasurer; dark and bloody ground; deep purple; felt inclined; general knowledge; golden wedding; inform against; inspection arms; later years; mercy upon; only slightly; pale greenish; plentiful supply; prohibit slavery; recovering himself; regulate commerce; regulate the; regulated mind; single generation; sufficiently proved; toothed wheel; worry about