Sentence examples for little to regulate from inspiring English sources

But the overlaying of statutes and regulations does little to regulate or alter basic human behaviors, instead creating new behaviors designed to sidestep regulations and tap dance around statutes.

Surely, this has to rank as the Mother of All Unintended Consequences: there is an outside chance that in its zeal to make net neutrality the law of the land, the F.C.C. could wind up as a regulator with very little to regulate.

Curitiba's planners could do little to regulate their city's chaos.

It has done little to regulate farm runoff, a major source of water pollution.

The performance of the agency has been under scrutiny from all parts of the political spectrum from consumers scared by books such as "Fast Food Nation" into thinking that the FDA does too little to regulate of the food supply, to drugs firms that complain that the approval process for new drugs is too slow.

The I.R.S. has done little to regulate a flood of political spending by larger groups — like Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, co-founded by Mr. Rove, and Priorities USA, with close ties to President Obama — as well as Republican leaders in Congress and other elected officials.

Unless we salvage the financial system right now, there will be precious little left to regulate.

Yet the world's governments have made little effort to regulate marine waste at all.

With Type 1 diabetes, an immune attack damages the part of the pancreas that produces insulin leading to too little insulin to regulate blood sugar or the body's use of energy.

But city officials have little power to regulate the trucks and locomotives that account for most of the city's diesel emissions.

"The E.P.A. is not standing in the way of oil and gas drilling, because they legally have very little power to regulate the industry," Mr. Horwitt said.