Sentence examples for had been regulating from inspiring English sources

Smith's move from the regulator to a supermarket he had been regulating in October 2012 was approved by the prime minister after guidance from the advisory committee on business appointments (ACOBA), on condition that Smith did not lobby civil servants or ministers on behalf of Tesco for two years.

For centuries before the first English colonists travelled to the New World, Parliament had been regulating the private ownership of firearms.

Geithner told Ezra Klein at Vox that he chose private equity because of ethical concerns: He did not want to go through the revolving door to the banks, he said, and did not want to be involved in companies he had been regulating.

Campaign contributions, if they were considered "speech" at all, had been regulated for more than a century.

"If it had been regulated, I would still be in business".

Poland's banks had been regulated tightly and had not got into the toxic derivative products that have brought down banks around the world, said Grad.

"It shocked me coming from the US, where the securities markets [markets where assets such as stocks, bonds and futures are traded] had been regulated since the 1930s".

The Thames watermen, who had been regulated since the 14th century, formed their own guild or company by 1603.

If the weapons had been regulated from the beginning, this all might well have been avoided.

The tommy gun had been regulated under the 1934 firearms act.

Have been regulating their lives to industrial achievement.