Sentence examples for was intended to regulate from inspiring English sources

Since there are no direct flights from Miami to any other countries on the list critics say the law was intended to regulate travel to Cuba.

In 2001, with Senators Edward Kennedy and John Edwards, McCain sponsored the Patients' Bill of Rights, which was intended to regulate the managed-care industry.

Proposed in 2005, the law was intended to regulate sales of Mature-rated games.

A rule advanced by the Obama administration was intended to regulate fracking on public and tribal lands.

The law passed in July 1965 and effected on February 1, 1966 was an amendment to the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and was intended to regulate the unlicensed "possession, manufacture, or sale of depressant, stimulant and hallucinogenic drugs".

Other state, local and federal laws are intended to regulate the ownership, breeding and transportation of exotic pets.

Both rules are intended to regulate the use of automated dialing systems that allow telemarketers to place tens of millions of calls a day.

In the absence of permanent legislation, the government has issued a series of temporary decrees that are intended to regulate research.

In addition, the large Three Gorges Dam project, upstream from the lake, is intended to regulate the flow of the Yangtze and to limit flooding.

The design of block copolymer micelles is intended to regulate the in vivo pharmacokinetics, stability, and distribution profiles of an entrapped or block copolymer-linked active substance.

Worse, dealers could probably find ways to manipulate the exempted transactions so as to hedge and speculate in ways that the law is intended to regulate.