Regulate

Examples

• Then came improved weighted and other safety valves to regulate and control this pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I then had a standard made to hold another oil-cup, so as to see and regulate the drop-feed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A great variety of lamps was made of the platinum-iridium type, mostly with thermal devices to regulate the temperature of the burner and prevent its being melted by an excess of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is necessary to feel the sentiment and passion of pride in conformity to it, and to regulate our actions accordingly. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The country does not abound in fresh water, and the length of the marches had to be regulated by the distance between water supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thus all the clocks in the series could be regulated every hour, for the collapse of the clippers pushed the hand forward if it were too late, or thrust it back if it had gained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United States. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The liquid ammonia flows through the regulating valve _V_ into the coil _E_, in which the pressure is kept low by the pump _C_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Perhaps the most important part of that journal is the _plan_ to be found in it, which I formed at sea, for regulating the future conduct of my life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A reservoir containing highly compressed air is fixed on the diver’s back, which supplies him with air by a self-regulating apparatus at a pressure corresponding to his depth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Closely allied to the practical use of the incandescent lamp is the method of supplying and regulating the current from the dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To secure a regular and uniform motion in the performance of his engine Watt invented the automatic or self-regulating ball governor and throttle valve. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The quantity of money which he gets for them regulates, too, the quantity of bread and beer which he can afterwards purchase. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Necessity makes it usual for almost every man to be so, and custom everywhere regulates fashion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their wages are not greater than those of common labourers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In Scotland, there is no general law which regulates universally the duration of apprenticeships. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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