Regulated

Examples

• 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 usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Yes, yes--your trap is laid for me before I can get my passport regulated and leave London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It's morbid to say this; it's unhealthy; it's all that a well-regulated mind like Miss Clack's most instinctively shudders at. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Those presents, it seems to have been supposed, could more easily be abolished altogether, than effectually regulated and ascertained. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• More exactly-regulated lives, feelings, manners, habits, it would have been difficult to find anywhere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This fine, which was at first arbitrary, came, in many countries, to be regulated at a certain portion of the price of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The strength of the solution was regulated by first obtaining a saturated solution of the nitrate of silver, and afterwards diluting it with six or eight times its volume of water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Rudimentary organs, from being useless, are not regulated by natural selection, and hence are variable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And these qualities are not regulated in him, somehow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I fear poor Emmy had not a well-regulated mind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Time locks are constructed on the principle of clockwork, so that they cannot be opened even with the proper key until a regulated interval of time has elapsed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Spaulding took out patent No. 103,673 for a binder which automatically regulated the bundles to a uniform size. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And a well brought up young woman, you know--with a well-regulated mind, must--George must give her up, dear Captain Dobbin, indeed he must. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His hours of work were not regulated by the clock, but lasted until he felt the need of a little rest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was first struck by the space of time that had elapsed, since madness, rather than any reasonable impulse, had regulated his actions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A number of receptacles containing charges of calcium carbide are made to successively receive a regulated quantity of water, the gas being collected in a rising and falling holder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In this natural emotion every properly regulated mind will certainly share. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The current pressure was regulated by a galvanometer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is certainly very well regulated. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The number of new-built houses that are annually brought to market, is more or less regulated by the demand. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The influence of a scene like this, was not lost upon the well-regulated mind of Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The distinction is not intrinsic but is dependent upon conditions, and upon conditions which can be regulated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The height of the water in the bath is regulated by the depth of immersion of the tube in it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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