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reg yuh lay tuhd

  • v  fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
  • v  bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
  • v  shape or influence; give direction to
  • v  check the emission of (sound)
  • a  controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law
    well regulated industries
    houses with regulated temperature

  • And these people were barely regulated at all, at least not in the sense that bankers are regulated.
  • The Amendment reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
  • The original version of this story stated that AIG was regulated by the New York insurance superintendent.
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  • Vice President Dick Cheney in Los Angeles Times
    But he does not support a federal role in the matter: "Historically, the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level," Cheney said. "It has always been a state issue, and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a...
  • Gordon Brown in Tribune (blog)
    Gordon Brown admitted laxity during the election campaign when he said in a television interview: "In the 1990s, the banks all came to us and said: 'We don't want to be regulated, we want to be free of regulation.' The truth is that, globally and...
  • Antonin Scalia in Mineral Wells Index
    When Goldman Sachs was a private partnership, we made the decision to become a public company, recognizing the need for permanent capital to meet the demands of scale. While accelerated by market sentiment, our decision to be regulated by the... Lloyd Blankfein http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Blankfein&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHgSA7u-x8LeSbSUWtf05qCjI_dXQ WELT ONLINE http://www.google.com/url?q=http://newsticker.welt.de/index.php%3Fchannel%3Dfin%26module%3Dsmarthouse%26id%3D782740&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFqqPVfrTCHcFcMu9RSkZcCVMrgHw Sep 21, 2008 81998 109815 regulating The Constitution leaves the District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating [handgun violence], including some measures regulating handguns : [b]ut the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the...

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