Regulating

Examples

• 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 field-regulating apparatus and the electrical-pressure indicator--first of its kind--were also tested, and in turn found satisfactory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This fact has led to its adoption as a means of regulating the mechanism of clocks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Clock mechanism for thus regulating the feed was first employed, which served to automatically keep the carbons a definite distance apart, this being a necessary condition of the arc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It may, too, be of some use to the public, in regulating the pecuniary reward of some of its inferior servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To maintain the vessel on an even keel he introduced four vanes, called hydroplanes, for regulating the depth of descent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Much of the horror of socialism comes from a belief that by increasing the functions of government its regulating power over our daily lives will grow into a tyranny. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many improvements, of course, have been made in detail of form, in ventilation, the supplying and regulating of heat and the moving of trays. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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