The amount of oil supplied to the burner is regulated by the same lever thatregulates the supply of water, so that both are increased or reduced in the proper proportion.
It regulates the movements not only of our clocks, watches and chronometers, but of barographs, thermographs and a great variety of other machines for recording events and changes in their proper order and relation in respect to time.
Reason then regulates certain innate and practically unalterable instincts by enabling us to foretell their consequences.
Ricardo agrees that 'population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or diminution of capital.
While he, for example, regulates the weather as a whole, it is the ghosts who cause each particular shower to fall or the sun to break out in glory from the clouds.
You appear to me to have repeatedly admitted that it is the relative prices of commodities which regulates their exportation.
Baring assists at the Congress of Sovereigns, and Ricardo regulates things at home.
It is self-interest which regulates all the speculations of trade; and, where that can be clearly and satisfactorily ascertained, we should not know where to stop if we admitted any other rule of action.
It appears then that the profit on new land, which regulates the profit on all other land, would be 19.
Probably ninety-nine men in a hundred assume without conscious inconsistency the validity both of the moral code propounded in the Sermon on the Mount, and of the code which regulates the actual struggle for life.
The rise and decline of the fishery are distinctly traceable in the development of the legal machinery which regulates it.
Apart from its interest as the forerunner of artificial propagation of oysters, this old law is noteworthy, as it forms the basis of the system which to-day regulates the industry in that section of the country.
In this way natureregulates the number of clams in a given area.
The piston-rod extends to each end of the cylinder, and regulates the rudders by pulling a small wire rope, the travel of the piston being about 8 feet.
The apparatus may be made to regulate at any angle by adjusting the screw which regulates the position of the tubular shaft.
In the same manner that sulphuric acid controls and regulates the phosphoric acid of ammonium phosphate, so lime and magnesia act on the ammonia of this same ammonium phosphate.
This is the cause of numerous diseases, most of which are due either to overproduction or underproduction of the secretion which regulates numerous functions of the body.
The amount of roundness across the faceregulates the widths, and the amount of roundness in the face length regulates the length of the hammer marks under any given force of blow.
From the form of this figure or diagram, the engineer is enabled to discover whether those parts of the engine whose operationregulates the admission of the steam to and its exhaust from the cylinder are correctly adjusted.
Upon the front face of A is a vertical slide upon which may be traversed the knee or table C, which by being raised, regulates the depth to which the cutters enter the work.
A set screw s'' regulates the pressure of the spring, and a screw a (Fig.
Congress regulates the principal measures of the national Government, and all the details of the administration are reserved to the provincial legislatures.
In the United States religion exercises but little influence upon the laws and upon the details of public opinion, but it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life it regulates the State.
From whence it may be seen, that the same necessity which regulates the physical, also regulates the moral world: in which every thing is in consequence submitted to fatality.
Does not the religion of all countries suppose the human race, together with the entire of Nature, submitted to the irresistible will of a necessary being, who regulates their condition after the eternal laws of immutable wisdom?
Nevertheless, in despite of the shackles by which he is bound, it is pretended he is a free agent, or that independent of the causes by which he is moved, he determines his own will; regulates his own condition.
As domestic economy regulates the acts and habits of a household, Political economy regulates those of a society or State, with reference to the means of its maintenance.
It is not, however, so much in the selection of single incidents of this kind as in the feeling which regulates the arrangement of the whole subject that the mind of a great composer is known.
Each part of the bodyregulates its supply of blood, the regulation being effected by means of nerves which control the tension of the muscle fibres.
It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that there is some internal mechanism of the body which controls andregulates growth.
A simple code of justice, often violated, and cruelly avenged, regulates the simple intercourse of associated savages.
A shifting wind sometimes ill regulates the supply of air and fires the heap.
Upon its first coming it makes for wet meadows, plashy uplands, and sea-coast tracts, although the weather regulates the altitude at which the bird is found.
In consequence of this, there will be a secret uneasiness, which will throw a shade over the whole current of life, never to be removed, till she so efficiently defines and regulates her duties that she can fulfill them all.
It has a very beneficial effect on the appetite, regulates the tone of the stomach and digestive organs, and can not do any harm.
And the remedy for this is the light of knowledge and intelligence which it is woman's special mission to bestow, as she controls and regulates the ministries of a home.
Among these, that whichregulates trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes will merit particular attention.
He knew that at a former period it had been conceded on the part of the United States that the law of nations stood as the present Treaty regulates it.
Thus, it is superior to the normal virtues, for while they regulate actions by the inferior rule of reason, charity regulates them by the supreme rule, which is God Himself.
The virtue of religion has a nobler object, since it regulates the worship owed to God, while justice regulates the things owed to man; and its obligation is stricter even than that of legal justice.
Its function is to make one modest in this desire (see 2465 c); that is, it regulates the inclination of nature according to reason, so that one may avoid both excess and defect in the pursuit of knowledge.
As regards the act of mercy, it is to be noted that it proceeds from the will, regulates the emotions, and is itself regulated by reason.
The precept obliges under pain of grave sin, for it determines a law given by Our Lord Himself and regulates the minimum in the use of the Eucharist, the greatest of the Sacraments and the end of all the others.
Distributive justice regulates the whole in reference to the parts, and it is exercised by all those who seek for such a distribution of the common things of a society as accords with the inequalities of merit and ability of the members.
It is modest; that is, it regulates according to the standard of reason the passion for greatness, so that one may avoid the extremes of pride and of abjectness or littleness of soul (see 2465 c).
The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
And as common logic, which regulates matters by syllogisms, is applied not only to natural, but also to every other science, so our inductive method likewise comprehends them all.
The quantity of the finished work which they sell to the inhabitants of the country, necessarily regulates the quantity of the materials and provisions which they buy.
The pulp does not flow over the sides of the plane, we observe, because a strap, on each side, constantly moving and passing upon its edges, regulates the width.
The power that causes this earth to roll on its axis, andregulates the planets in their diurnal and annual motions, is beyond man's control.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regulates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
