regulate the temperature.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

We cannot regulate the way people dress.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

But, half the blame can be laid to the ambiguity of the term regulate, and also to the clause general welfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dougout] Reference

A decision not to regulate is consistent with leaving matters to the states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

On every issue, the acid-test of any move to deregulate, or re-regulate, is cui bono?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Industry Restructuring: A User's Guide] Reference

(In Nevada, outside of Vegas and Reno, the decision to regulate is made at the county level.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Prostitution vs. President Bush:] Reference

No the Republicans are so smart they think letting the government do nothing to regulate is the answer to everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durbin: New safety standards likely for offshore drilling] Reference

It is true that a variant of the word regulate is in fact peppered throughout the text of the House Democrats 'health care reform bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Your Own Reflection in Health Reform Visualizations [UPDATED]] Reference

Daschle had spent the last few years as a high-profile lobbyist for the industry Obama wanted him to regulate, which is exactly what Obama promised not to do during the campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

You didn't have a national bank to kind of regulate commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2002] Reference

We are doing everything wrong in how we attempt to "regulate" it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will UAW/GM Health Care Deal Doom Universal Single Payer Health Care?] Reference

Except in the instances in which he wants to "regulate" it, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Brodsky: Texas Congressman Plans Sneak Attack on the FCC] Reference

Wait a minute, though, the terms "regulate" and "legislate" are ALSO synonyms!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

That said, the House Democrats 'bill doesn't even contain the word "regulate" at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Your Own Reflection in Health Reform Visualizations [UPDATED]] Reference

Phil, the Constitution says that Congress should "regulate" commerce, not "deregulate" it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday] Reference

That document is now paralleled by an Egyptian draft law to "regulate" visual, audio, and electronic media.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Fisher: Mubarak: Autocrat With Chutzpah] Reference

A spokesman said a move to protect privacy shouldn't be viewed as an "attempt to 'regulate' media content.".    From Wordnik.com.  [News Magnate Baits Beijing] Reference

This is a dangerous annoucement that threatens the freedom of speech of bloggers and new media - which Blair now wants to "regulate".    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting For the Clunking Fist to Fall...] Reference

So critiquing a bill for being full of the word "regulate" is a bit like begrudging the Burger King menu for using the dollar sign a lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Your Own Reflection in Health Reform Visualizations [UPDATED]] Reference

In the end, federal legislators opted to "regulate" strip mining, instead of banning its undeniable wrath of destruction in the coal areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Biggers: Nancy Sutley: 30 Years of Betrayal Later, End Mountaintop Removal Now] Reference

Congress was given the power to coin money and to "regulate" its value — that is, to specify the legal value of the coins in terms of a number of dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Currency Doesn't Require 'One Europe'] Reference

Here's a lovely item which positively glows with praise for the wise Obama as he decides that he needs to "regulate" the "pollutant" that is CO2 apparently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biased BBC] Reference

The new law enables Chavez to unilaterally "regulate" this transition if companies don't agree to the new framework within an unspecified "peremptory period.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Weisbrot and Robert Naiman: Water Runs Uphill: Top U.S. State Department Official for Latin America Defends Venezuela] Reference

So it should come as no surprise to anyone, that letting Wall street 'regulate' itself, has led to the disastrous financial melt down that is currently occurring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Six commissioners were appointed in November to "regulate" all the corporations of England, by turning out all who were opposed to the abolition of the penal laws and.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

We must speak out in favor of our Constitution, as it was written by the founders, which empowers our government to "regulate," to act, and to represent the public will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Scher: Conservative Activist Judge Makes Conservative Activist Decision] Reference

Obama says he wants to "regulate" the insurance industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference

We've been trying to "regulate" them since the 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference

Deer, like any species let to overrun an area don't "regulate" anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hartford Advocate: News] Reference

Section 8 gives the federal government power to "regulate" Commerce not to shut it down.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

So the state governments arose in their might and began furiously to "regulate" the railroads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise of American Life] Reference

The best we can do, tells us Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, is somehow "regulate" the financiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference

In the middle are the bureaucrats who will take their share to "regulate" whatever it is that's been mandated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Federal Reserve again failed to properly regulate which is why those powers need to be moved outside of that group.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMERICAblog News] Reference