Sentence examples for in an effort to regulate from inspiring English sources

And they have a lot of audacity now that everyone has bailed them out," said Yra Harris, an independent commodities trader who was involved in an effort to regulate derivatives nine years ago.

In an effort to regulate the homes a year ago, a Suffolk County legislator, Fred Towle of Shirley, proposed a bill that would restrict the number of homes to four in a two-square-mile area, require a social worker on site eight hours a day and limit the number of tenants to eight.

And next year online casinos will be legalised in an effort to regulate and tax a fast-growing industry that, although often British-owned, is served by computers offshore.The government is hoping to repeat the success it had earlier with the betting industry.

In an effort to regulate the impending succession, to which there were three principal claimants, England, the Dutch Republic, and France had in October 1698 signed the First Treaty of Partition, agreeing that on the death of Charles II, Prince Joseph Ferdinand, son of the elector of Bavaria, should inherit Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and the Spanish colonies.

Polymer blends were produced from five ratios of PHB/LDPE in an effort to regulate the resistance to hydrolysis or (bio) degradation through the control of water permeability.

The challenge, Brown explains, comes when people begin turning to social media in an effort to regulate negative thoughts, or to distract or disengage themselves from difficult emotions.

The Child Online Protection Act was introduced in Congress after an effort to regulate children's access to Web pornography, the Communications Decency Act of 1996, was ruled unconstitutionally broad by the Supreme Court in 1997.

Germany legalized prostitution in 2002 as part of an effort to regulate the financial working conditions of prostitutes, Francesca McCaffery explained in The Utopianist.

House Republicans are vigorously denouncing the Environmental Protection Agency as a rogue agency engaged in a borderline-illegal effort to regulate greenhouse gases.

Furthermore, as of 2011, less than 15%% of NSAGs using child soldiers had agreed to one of the aforementioned action plans (see Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict 2011, 6); although in recent years, there have been some signings of the action plans and consequent de-listing of NSAGs.27 This suggests that the action plans are proving useful in the effort to regulate the actions of NSAGs.

Some communications experts suggested that having taken intermediate efforts would be a necessary building block in any future effort to regulate property owners more directly.