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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
regulate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law
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Examples
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The second amendment is the only amendment with the word 'regulated' in it.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The second amendment is the only amendment with the word 'regulated' in it.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Pasting proposed rules to refute my claim that plants are under-regulated is a rather weak refutation at best.
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Increasingly, they are putting money into new infrastructure funds, which offer long-term, steady returns – particularly if they invest in regulated assets such as electricity networks – to match the long-term liabilities of their members.
How pension funds can plug the investment gap Tim Webb 2010
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Investors in regulated industries rely on the fact that regulators will not behave in an arbitrary fashion and, if they do, that there are due process remedies that their managements and boards can pursue.
Sears Chairman Unleashes 15-Page Manifesto About Um, Everything - The Consumerist 2009
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The only time a behavior should be regulated is if it has negative externalities.
Matthew Yglesias » Marijuana Legalization as a Revenue Enhancer 2009
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The subject to be regulated is commerce, and our Constitution being, as was aptly said at the bar, one of enumeration, and not of definition, to ascertain the extent of the power, it becomes necessary to settle the meaning of the word.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010
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The SRS is used to generate permanent, unique, unambiguous identifiers for substances in regulated products, such as ingredients in drug products.
Demulen Birth Control Pills Still Lactose Free Steve Carper 2008
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Wow this last paragraph shows the craziness, perhaps you should visit your doctor and have you insulin regulated or something or try Prozac!
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Every day, more and more people open Net accounts to discover information, which used to be highly restricted and tightly regulated, is now freely available.
P2p data sharing 2005
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