Sentence examples for attempt to regularize from inspiring English sources

His standardization of the orthography of the Provençal language, which he set forth in the introduction to his play La Part dou bon Dieu (1853), is considered the first attempt to regularize spelling and usage in the language.

This way, your brain can attempt to regularize, conditioning itself to only sleep at this time of night.

As she sees it, politicians who so bitterly oppose day-laborer hiring sites and other attempts to regularize the underground economy are unwittingly enabling the exploitation and lawlessness they profess to oppose.

Never a successful financial manager, Chekhov attempted to regularize his literary affairs in 1899 by selling the copyright of all his existing works, excluding plays, to the publisher A.F. Marx for 75,000 rubles, an unduly low sum.

But they've also attempted to regularize the trade via cooperatives of illicit traders, intending to mainstream them into the official oil industry—a move that's been met with heavy resistance from unofficial illicit gas trade groups, that are organizing for the defense of their members against new laws and agitating against cooperatives.

There is a logic of implied deprivation here that may prove persuasive in attempts to regularize professional roles across the European Union, especially if American models are regarded as helpful.

That is, participants were faster to read regular words than pseudowords but slower to regularize words than pseudowords.

President Bill Clinton sought to regularize such exports.

And then Secretary Powell added, "We want to regularize this.

By 2006, Rice and Hadley brought Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in from a secret foreign prison to regularize detainee procedures.

She especially disliked a plan to regularize the grading system for cannabis.