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Layers upon layers of regulations may seem like bureaucracy.

If everything has to be coordinated by the minute, you need clear rules and regulations.

Though the regulations around them are still somewhat piecemeal, drones have seen a steady uptick in practical use cases over the last couple years.

Under the Clean Air Act, industrial facilities emitting these pollutants are subject to regulations.

The most important thing it did for me is to not think of regulation just as a tool that will help in limiting these systems.

In other words, unnecessarily stringent abortion regulation could be far more dangerous than abortion itself.

Others fear that giving them the force of regulation could be more harmful because they would become outdated quickly.

Gun regulation, of course, was not the only successful initiative, not by a long shot.

The resulting negotiation, they hope, would gut the EPA regulation.

Many people simply take it for granted that government regulation achieves its intended ends.

His presence, also, always graced Walls End Castle at the regulation periods.

The regulation chairs and tables of the furnished house had been banished from Mrs. Haggard's drawing-room.

Well, we must try our luck with a regulation sabre; they can't well refuse it; ours is the stronger and bigger man.

His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.

Doing so, I received a different sort of salute from that to which a Commander-in-Chief landing on duty is entitled by regulation.

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On this page you'll find 112 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to regulation, such as: adjustment, arrangement, control, governance, management, and settlement.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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