Sentence examples for passed regulations from inspiring English sources

Here are the facts: In 2005, the Bush administration passed regulations that basically allowed oil companies to regulate themselves, saying that a driller is "in the best position to determine the environmental effects of its proposed activity".

Last month, supervisors in one town passed regulations to limit noise and restrict the expansion.

In affluent Aspen, county commissioners have passed regulations, now being fought by the industry, that would all but halt exploration.

Last summer, Russia passed regulations to allow art to be turned into securities, the second country to do so after India.

The Taxi and Limousine Commission recently passed regulations removing the Lexus from the approved taxicab list, arguing the cars are too powerful.

"Around 351 Indonesian districts, subdistricts, towns and villages had already passed regulations against alcohol in the past 15 years, and the Supreme Court ruling" removing the ban on such regulations "makes them all legal now," he said.

But the S.E.C., under its former chairman, Arthur Levitt, passed Regulation FD, opening up such information to all.

The S.E.C. passed Regulation Fair Disclosure - known as Regulation F.D. - in October 2000 to combat selective disclosure of market-moving information so that certain investors wouldn't be able to trade ahead of others.

The solution is most likely not for Congress or other lawmakers to pass regulations alone, she said.

This month, the supervisors said they would move quickly in 2009 to pass regulations allowing for greater density, consistent with the long-range plan for Tysons.

Although she has asked the departing ministers not to make policy while they remain in place, some have taken the opportunity to pass regulations and change personnel.