Sentence examples for regulate conflict from inspiring English sources

Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Seattle, had tried for years to regulate conflict minerals.

"We need tough rules to regulate conflict of interests," Michael Barr, assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions, said in a conference call.

Col. Dahiya also said that there is an existing mechanism to regulate conflict near the line of control between India and Pakistan.

After a short debate on the Senate floor, the plan to regulate conflict minerals was attached to the sweeping new law by Mr. Brownback.

The Hague Convention (1899 and 1907) and the Geneva Conventions attempted to regulate conflict and the treatment of prisoners of war and civilians by imposing international standards.

In fact, the United States government should be commended for its leadership in trying to regulate "conflict minerals" and to starve rebels of the resources and weapons they need to kill and rape.

A setback could send shock waves through the recessionary global economy and imperil the umbrella World Trade Organization, which was created six years ago to expand trade and regulate conflicts.

Democrats and Republicans alike are so beholden to accounting-industry money that they scuttled an attempt by Arthur Levitt, the former S.E.C. head, to regulate conflicts of interest in companies like Andersen two years ago.

Instead, the SEC and Goldman settled, with the bank agreeing to pay a record-breaking $550m fine but neither admitting nor denying the charges.The SEC is now trying to regulate conflicts out of existence.

"We favour checks and balances, institutions rather than heroes," says Mauricio Merino, lead co-ordinator of the Accountability Network, a grouping of NGOs that pushed for the legislation.Until secondary legislation is passed to regulate conflicts of interest and specify the powers of the new bodies, it is impossible to say how well the new system will work, says Mr Merino.

Italy needed a new electoral law, and possibly a constitutional amendment to make it less easy to bring a government down without an alternative to put in its place; a law to regulate conflicts of interest; and a framework for devolution, to counter secessionist trends.