deregulate
Police can invoke the law of trespass to regulate access to these places.
This valve regulates the flow of water into the tank.
The travel industry is regulated by a set of guidelines.
The switch is used to regulate the speed at which the machine operates.
The government has introduced new laws to regulate the sale of firearms.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Controlling and being in charge
aggrandize
assert your authority
assume
assumption
authoritative
get the better of someoneidiom
get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom
get/fall into the wrong handsidiom
govern
guiding principle
paternalistically
peremptorily
peremptory
play Godidiom
plenipotentiary
slow
tame
what someone says, goesidiom
wrangle
wrangler

Examples of regulating

regulating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

At this moment, it still seems unclear whether synthetic biology will lead to new insights into the basic cell regulating mechanism.
The major bills regulating mine safety before 1969 were passed in 1941, 1952, and 1966. 89.
The volume of administrative procedures regulating access to national territory and organizing border controls has constantly increased.
An air chamber/regulating spring combination is adopted here for that purpose.
Examples of loop-structured systems, frequently occurring in biology, are the feedback mechanisms regulating protein synthesis and the development of stage-structured populations.
The constraints regulating the identity of the two halves of the constructions are not equally ranked with respect to the markedness constraints.
Further characterisation of serotonin neurons and serotonergic projections regulating energy balance and glucose homeostasis is an important area of future research.
The voluntary system had given them considerable authority for regulating the conditions of working life.
To tackle the global problem of corruption international institutions and regional groupings look to criminal law as a means of regulating human behaviour.
Deadly decisions: the role of genes regulating programmed cell death in human preimplantation embryo development.
Learning mechanisms are also involved in regulating the nursing responses of neonates.
The regulating spring provides the necessary sealing pressure and helps to improve the surface adaptability of the robot.
To connect the 6 valves into one compact pressure regulating valve two special collectors were designed.
Accordingly, a competent land management agency is essential for regulating land use (for agriculture, industry, housing and commons) and land transactions.
Still, a survey of the laws regulating sheriffs, marshals, clerks, custom collectors, surveyors, and so forth, is striking for its continuity with the past.
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