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Regulating itself without intervention from external bodies.
‘advertising is governed by a self-regulating system’
‘The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains its equilibrium just as the body does.’
‘If we want a self-regulating profession, then we must regulate well at every level.’
‘Put another way, why wasn't the system self-regulating after all?’
‘Political authorities were interested mainly in maintaining harmony within and among these different self-regulating bodies.’
‘Although it was at times a painful process, the system was self-regulating with participants generally operating with an appreciation for the risks of lending and speculative excess.’
‘A free market system is largely self-regulating and provides the best environment for promotion of opportunity, excellence, personal growth, and freedom of expression.’
‘The use of self-regulating mechanisms to explain long-term stability has a long history in ecology but has been notoriously difficult to demonstrate in practice.’
‘They said Bulgaria should remove its laws on insult and defamation from the criminal code, and that editors should set up a self-regulating body for the media industry.’
‘His notion of the mind as a self-regulating system is in line with modern ideas on cybernetics.’
‘These chemicals change the experience of pain and release other chemicals, such as hormones, that influence the body's self-regulating systems.’
‘Accreditation of universities is in the hands of voluntary, non-governmental, self-regulating regional bodies.’
‘This is largely a self-regulating body and was set up as an alternative to Parliament's providing statutory regulations.’
‘The Committee concluded that a more self-regulating system was needed.’
‘His particular field of interest seemed to be where previously self-regulating systems underwent irreversible change.’
‘Its components are easy to install and provide a self-powered, self-regulating system requiring no further maintenance or monitoring.’
‘What it teaches us is that this self-regulating system has no need of humanity, does not exist for the sake of humanity, and will regulate itself in ignorance of humanity's fate.’
‘Here, I formulate four rules that are generally accepted among scientists and that, if consequently applied, serve as a self-regulating system.’
‘If one industry is in control and has a monopoly, what is the point in having an industry body that is self-regulating?’
‘The idolization of the market as a perfect, self-regulating mechanism that always leads to the best possible outcomes is as far from reality as the hopes of socialist central planners.’
‘They say that the provincial government has seized control of the formerly self-regulating body.’