Regulation

Examples

• But pride--where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It's a regulation of natur--a dispensary, as your poor mother-in-law used to say. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The interest of the duke of Cornwall has given occasion to a regulation nearly of the same kind in that ancient dutchy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The same remark he considered to apply to the regulation mode of cutting the hair: which he held to be decidedly unlawful. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• How hurtful soever in themselves, these, or some other restraints upon importation, became necessary in consequence of that regulation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the happiest regulation in French railway government is--thirty minutes to dinner! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Still, I thought, it was better to have a regulation pistol. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The regulation and control of the action of gunpowder in such a manner as to exert less strain upon the gun, and to impart more energy to the projectile. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The city watch was one of the first things that I conceived to want regulation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He is sensible of a like interest in the regulation of his conduct. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• By this regulation, a very heavy burden was laid upon their supplying Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A marked tendency in shot guns in late years is toward a reduction in bore, many sportsmen now using a 28 gauge in preference to the old regulation 12. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The train, and also each signalling station, was equipped with regulation telegraph apparatus, such as battery, key, relay, and sounder, together with induction-coil and condenser. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. Plato. The Republic.
• In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such are the unfortunate effects of all the regulations of the mercantile system. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such enhancements of the market price may last as long as the regulations of policy which give occasion to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The regulations, accordingly, which have been sent out from Europe, though they have been frequently weak, have upon most occasions been well meaning. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I looked over the regulations, and I find no such meal as lunch mentioned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• These regulations take place through the whole kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the payment of duties laid by an act of Parliament as regulations of commerce was never disputed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Quite different regulations are necessary to prevent this abuse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those other regulations secure them equally against that of foreigners. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The price of Scotch wool, when, in consequence of the Union, it became subject to the same regulations, is said to have fallen about one half. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He designed the piers of Leghorn and the custom house regulations of Civita Vecchia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Other regulations, of a similar tendency, were established in other parts of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• According to the British Admiralty regulations, should a diver go down to a depth of 204 feet, the time of his ascent must be not less than one hour and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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