Sentence examples for promised to regulate from inspiring English sources

In the presidential campaign, President Bush promised to regulate carbon dioxide emissions but reversed that plan in March, citing energy concerns.

Both Democratic candidates have also promised to regulate corporate America more closely than President Bush has and to spend more than $100 billion a year on an overhaul of the health-care system.

By 1871, the situation was so heated that both the Republican and Democratic candidates in state elections promised to regulate railroad rates.

Further spinning suggested that Mr. Bush thought carbon dioxide emissions are already covered under federal law, and only intended to promise to regulate things that are already regulated.

So American companies have tried to carve out a compromise that keeps them free of liability from European lawsuits if they promise to regulate themselves -- a move that some European legislators say will lead to weaker standards.

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, passed in March, promises to regulate the student loan industry by omitting private lenders in hopes of saving the government and the taxpayer money.

The Vermont senator's influence was clear when this year's Democratic Party platform was revealed; it includes planks on legalizing marijuana, capping greenhouse gas emissions, criminal justice reform, and promises to regulate Wall Street and break up big banks.

Previous crises have generated promises to regulate global finance.

On global warming, Mrs. Whitman elaborated on earlier defenses of the administration's decisions to set aside the Kyoto treaty and to reverse a campaign promise to regulate power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide.

During this same period, the president broke his campaign promise to regulate the industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, a move that, among other things, would have helped in the fight to slow the increase in global warming.

One of the most important decisions was Mr. Bush's reversal of a campaign promise to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas that many scientists say contributes to global warming.