regulation

In a sentence

Six example sentences with regulation, each labelled with its topic.

• A new regulation forbids burning field waste after October, and inspectors now drive the back roads every autumn weekend.

  Environment

• One regulation requires banks to hold cash against every loan, and the ratio is checked at the close of each quarter.

  Finance

• The league passed a regulation limiting practices to two hours, and any club that ignores it forfeits a draft pick.

  Basketball

• A regulation requires every ward to count its needles at the end of a shift, and the sheet is signed twice.

  Medicine

• The new regulation forces app makers to delete a user's data within thirty days of a written request.

  Technology

• One regulation limits cabin bags to eight kilograms, and the scale at the gate is not open to negotiation.

  Travel

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More Academic words

• establishment
• cycle
• minimize
• deny
• devices
• motive
• promote
• concept
• administration
• consequence
• identity
• consume