self-regulating

Example Sentences

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“It’s a transnational corporation, in essence, with a twist: they are self-governing, self-regulating, and autonomous,” said Lisa Kihl, the director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations at the University of Minnesota.

From New York Times

The government argues its Online Safety Bill will address this, by giving ministers and regulators greater powers over firms, which up until now have been largely self-regulating.

From BBC

Echoing James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a vast, self-regulating organism, Mutu said in her recent talk that the injustices humans commit against one another are inevitably related to the Earth.

From Washington Post

“Dutch infants,” Hymowitz says, “at six months of age, get an average of two hours more sleep per day than do their self-regulating American counterparts.”

From Washington Post

By studying millions of blood tests, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, found that hormone-producing glands grow and shrink in continuous, self-regulating annual cycles.

From Scientific American