Sentence examples for enacted to regulate from inspiring English sources

Consumer protection laws were enacted to regulate product safety and advertising aimed at children.

Only this concept of the rule of law would prevent a law being enacted to regulate the use of torture, for example.

He has proposed tax cuts that would, effectively, give trillions of dollars to the rich, an elimination of the Dodd-Frank legislation enacted to regulate Wall Street after the financial crisis, and a severe curtailing of environmental rules.

The International Dark Sky Association, a nonprofit group based in Tucson that fights light pollution, said other states have recently enacted legislation to regulate street lights and limit light pollution, including Maine, Arizona and Texas.

"By the beginning of the eighteenth century, most American colonies had enacted laws to regulate the behavior of African slaves," Dulaney writes in his book "Black Police in America".

It's still possible U.S. regulators could enact legislation to regulate the distribution of Wall Street bonuses.

Elected in 1898, he became an energetic reformer, removing corrupt officials and enacting legislation to regulate corporations and the civil service.

The Constitution also requires the Legislature to enact legislation to regulate Muslim religious affairs and to establish a council to advise the President concerning matters relating to Islam.

Appearing before the justices, the solicitors general of New York and Michigan argued that the 21st Amendment, enacted to repeal Prohibition, gives the states the authority to regulate the importation of liquor.

This definition informed our operationalization of migration policies in two ways: (i) DEMIG POLICY focused on 'policies on paper', that is, the laws, regulations, and measures enacted by states to regulate migration.

In a way, that is true: under a law enacted in 2000 to regulate surveillance powers, it is legal for localities to follow residents secretly.