Sentence examples for are meant to regulate from inspiring English sources

Regulatory institutions need to be designed in ways that are stronger and less prone to being co-opted by the industry that they are meant to regulate.

At the Afssaps, voting members of the approval committee have long served simultaneously as consultants or employees of the pharmaceutical firms they are meant to regulate, officials acknowledge.

An extraordinary amount of power resides with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an institution many view as having been captured by the very banks they are meant to regulate.

You don't have to be a black helicopter fan to recognize that the proximity of the small world that is Wall Street to the very institutions and public servants who are meant to regulate them can seriously compromise their credibility.

In effect, such a regime defeats the purposes of the institution it is meant to regulate.

The aviation security law is meant to regulate highly dangerous acts such as hijacking.

Immigration laws are dense and inflexible, but the lives they're meant to regulate are inescapably varied and complex.

One of the components is meant to regulate the land ownership procedures.

Osborne's new job must be agreed by parliament's advisory committee on business appointments, which is meant to regulate the jobs taken up by former ministers.

The essence of the piece (about which Andrew Sullivan has an interesting discussion going) is that marriage is meant to "regulate" sexual intercourse between a man and a woman, which is something that can, but need not, lead to having children.

Google says it doesn't actually engage in the practice that the N.A.I. was meant to regulate: building profiles on Internet users based on their online behavior for the purpose of advertising.