Sentence examples for bid to regulate from inspiring English sources
Less than a month earlier, the company, the country's leading beer maker, had scored a major victory when the Clinton administration's Federal Trade Commission dropped a bid to regulate beer, wine and liquor advertising that critics said was aimed at under-age drinkers.
The move shows the growing opposition to D.C.'s taxi union, which is continuing its yet unsuccessful bid to regulate the popular on-demand cab service, after a very public online protest shut down the union's first attempt earlier in the summer.
In Uganda, where the 30-year rule of Yoweri Museveni could continue if he wins the presidential election on 18 February, a bill to regulate NGOs has been described as a bid to make these groups "puppets of the state".
And a committee tasked with reviewing housing strategy this month made numerous recommendations to deal with Hong Kong's housing problems, including a proposal to set up a licensing system for subdivided apartments in a bid to better regulate safety and health conditions.
This is evidenced by the finding that ATM-mediated BID phosphorylation led to quiescence of HSCs due to BID's ability to regulate oxidative stress, resulting in maintenance of the HSC pool and HSC repopulating potential in vivo.
New rules are needed to define the role and nature of an outside director, for example, to ensure equal treatment of all shareholders during a takeover bid or merger, to regulate the use of stock splits, and to make stricter demands about financial reporting by listed companies.
So today, in a city that seeks to regulate soda consumption, chandelier bidding remains 100 percent legal.
This removes the last regulatory obstacle to Oracle's hostile $7.7 billion bid for the rival American software firm.America's Securities and Exchange Commission voted to regulate hedge funds.
The job of unions is essentially to regulate the supply of labour in order to bid up its price (expressed in wages and conditions).
In their own bid to stay ahead of anti-obesity efforts, fast-food companies have asked state legislators to limit local government power to regulate restaurants.
