Sentence examples for been attempting to regulate from inspiring English sources

Governments have been attempting to regulate access to pornography for decades with little success.

The dispute over Stuttgart 21 culminated in the summer with the serious injury of nine policemen, who had been attempting to regulate a demonstration against the project.

The Obama administration has been attempting to regulate for profit colleges for the past five years and has finally taken dramatic measures to reverse the for profit trend.

Until then, the country had been attempting to regulate the drugs rather than criminalizing them, as bans often just resulted in manufacturers coming up with new compounds that weren't covered by the law.

As boundaries between organizations blur, governments will have more trouble defining the entity that they are attempting to regulate.

In their lawsuit, Florida and other states say: "Congress is attempting to regulate and penalize Americans for choosing not to engage in economic activity.

With Clipper, the government is attempting to regulate the net not at the level of content, which would probably be impossible in a network so diffuse, but at the level of code.

The federal government is attempting to regulate the e-cigarette industry, and although experts agree that these efforts may be beginning to pay off, they say there is still a long way to go.

The European Union is "attempting to regulate the airlines of the world," said Nancy Young, vice president for environmental affairs at the Air Transport Association, the largest airline industry group in the United States.

Comments made by the EPA itself suggest that the Fracking Rule is an attempt to resurrect EPA's pre-2005 EP Act authority (see DOI AR 0103278_002-3); that is, the BLM is attempting to regulate hydraulic fracturing as underground injection wells in a manner that the EPA would have done under the SDWA absent the 2005 EP Act.

The committee's Republican chairman (the Republican Party won control of the House in last fall's election), Fred Upton, of Michigan, said, "If the FCC was truly weighing the costs and benefits of its actions, the agency would not be attempting to regulate the Internet".