Regulations

Examples

• 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.
• The intention of both regulations is to restrain the competition to a much smaller number than might otherwise be disposed to enter into the trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The actual war was precipitated by the Romans making a breach of their own regulations, and interfering with affairs south of the Ebro. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If a powerful ruler should form a state after these patterns, then its regulations could be preserved. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• General Scott at once began the preparation of orders, regulations and laws in view of this contingency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• According to the practice in modern municipal health regulations, the test as to when a child recovering from diphtheria is incapable of disseminating the disease is by test culture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is the instrument which executes and maintains all his other regulations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All these different statutory regulations seem to have been made with great propriety. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The regulations, however, by which this derangement is effected in those two different branches of trade, are not altogether the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the other hand, the control afforded by the customs and regulations of others may be short-sighted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All the different regulations of the mercantile system necessarily derange more or less this natural and most advantageous distribution of stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A possible depth of 204 feet is recognized by the British Admiralty regulations under the conditions that obtain with the common form of diving suit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The regulations of 1773, accordingly, did not put an end to the disorder of the company's government in India. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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