Definition: 1. To control sth by means of rules. 2. To control the speed, pressure, temperature, etc. in a machine or system. 3. Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of. 4. Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations. 5. Shape or influence; give direction to.
Use 'regulate' in a sentence:
1. The order also declared that state and local governments couldn't regulate broadband providers either.
2. Most genes are regulated by a master set of genes, Farrant says.
3. A person's behavior is often regulated by his circumstances.
4. This system can regulate the temperature of the room.
5. It's an important process that helps to regulate the global climate.
6. We ought to regulate our daily life.
7. Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won't be easy, Record says.
8. When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate ．
9. She says, noting the FDA does not regulate supplements as rigorously as foods or drugs.
10. Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.
11. The speed of the machine may be regulated to pace the packing operation.
12. The controversy began on 1 February, when Ingham testified before New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, which will determine how to regulate GM organisms.
13. A lack of sleep is tied to irritability4 and other difficulties regulating emotions.
14. Possibly the agencies in charge of drafting the decisions are too close to the industries they are supposed to regulate.
15. In economic work, we should pay attention to opening up the source and regulating the flow from time to time.
16. Regulate imbalance of dynamic equilibrium of neck soft tissue and treat the anteriad arcuation of cervical vertebrae by acupotomy.
17. regulate tobacco products.
18. The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary ( and thereby the FAA) from regulating the design or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew or passengers.
19. After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.
20. During critical situations, especially when a threat is perceived, the outer core loses control and fails to regulate the impulses and instinctual responses coming from the primitive brain.
21. But it helps regulate your blood circulation.
22. MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.
23. There are some who think we can leave the body to regulate these matters for itself.
24. The movements of this army would be regulated like those of the ballet in the opera.
25. Mammals do have the ability to regulate their body temperature, but not all can do it to the same degree, or even the same way.
26. By that analogy, we ought to regulate it.
27. The circular also underlined that the use of health code data must be strictly regulated to protect privacy.
28. These spots are so important because many animals rely on microclimates to regulate their body temperature.
29. strong macroeconomic frameworks, well regulated financial markets and robust levels of reserves.
30. We don't like the way you regulate land.
31. The government should regulate the app-based car rental market.
32. And who will regulate what?
33. Magnesium1, which helps regulate muscle and nerve function.
34. Some of the teens had changed to one particular gene—the glucocorticoid receptor (GR)—that helps regulate the body's hormonal response to stress.
35. Unlike many past Fed leaders, Yellen is not one to buy into the finance industry's argument that it should be left alone to regulate itself.
36. But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated ．
37. Are you in a regulated market, like Oman or uae?
38. Nearly all computers contain a quartz-crystal clock to regulate their operation.
39. For most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.
40. The pineal gland4, which regulates body rhythms, secretes5 a hormone6 called melatonin during the night.
41. That, too, explains the heavy Washington presence at this year's show, as these new technologies intrude upon heavily regulated areas.
42. Now we have a reservoir regulating the river flow.
43. Those principles regulate and demand enterprises on different levels from different angles.
44. And the government's job is to regulate what people do.
45. It helps regulate your circulation.
46. Frustrated with delays in Sacramento, Bay Area officials said Thursday they planned to take matters into their own hands to regulate the region's growing pile of electronic trash.
47. Peppermint oil is very good for regulating digestive disorders.
48. Researchers recently discovered a gene1 that regulates the duration of sleep an individual needs.
49. Under such a plan, the government would regulate competition among insurance companies so that everyone gets care at lower cost.
50. Bumblebees can regulate their body temperature via radiative cooling from the heterothermy.
51. If students rely on administrators to regulate their social behavior and thinking pattern, they are not facing the challenge of finding an identity within a larger and complex community ．
52. The ability to emotionally regulate or maintain emotional control when confronted by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills.
53. Sound beans from storage flow into a feeding hopper that regulates their flow into the plant.
54. The powers of the European Commission to regulate competition are increasing.
55. The FCC has no statutory authority to regulate the Internet.
56. The industry is strictly regulated.
57. It is up to the regulating authority to put the measures into effect.
