Regulation

//ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən//

"Regulation" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The regulation was abolished, but then it was reenacted.

We should do away with this regulation.

This new regulation is wigscratchingly difficult.

This regulation will take effect from next year.

Can you get around that regulation?

She acquainted us with the new regulation.

This regulation will take effect next year.

More regulation is needed.

We need common sense regulation.

This luxury product is taxed according to the applicable regulation.

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Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.

The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only, subject to paragraph (3). (3) This regulation and regulation 2(h) and (v)(i) and (ii) extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.

"The hat is regulation as well, I assume."

It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.

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