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1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 330 'Tis a very Considerable degree of Self-regulation for a Man to proceed thus far, not to Enjoy, but only to Use the World.

1787 W. Perfect Sel. Cases Insanity xxxiii. 183 He soon acquired such an habitual line of self-regulation, as secured to him..health of body and soundness of mind.

1855 Dublin Q. Jrnl. Med Sci. 19 91 Individuals in whom a defective capability of self-regulation is manifest..abandon themselves to the freer indulgence of those passions.

1879 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 13 387 Man has..conscious choice, and thereby morality, self-regulation, and responsibility.

1976 E. Schur Awareness Trap iii. 74 Concepts like self-regulation and human potential suggest that every person has limitless possibilities to change, grow, and experience joy.

2014 Toronto Star (Nexis) 1 Sept. a1 Concrete strategies for kids to learn self-regulation and managing their emotions.

1789 T. Barnard Serm. preached at Request Artillery Company 22 It [sc. a plan of government] has within itself the strong principles of wise self-regulation.

1842 J. W. Bosanquet Metallic, Paper & Credit Currency 79 Some principle of self-regulation is required in the currency, as a preventive against excess or deficiency of quantity interfering with value.

1870 Church Reform Union (Earl Grey Pamphlets Coll.) 3 The Church..is wanting in provisions for self-regulation in minor matters.

1932 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 42/2 The mere indication of the possibilities of danger ought to bring home to the industry the necessity of self-regulation in order to avoid regulation by the Government.

1986 Sociol. of Educ. 60 412 Professional self-regulation is dependent upon a well-developed peer structure.

2011 Times 6 Dec. 27/3 He emphasised the importance of the self-regulation of the press.

1865 Lancet 29 July 111/1 Four ways in which the labour of breathing is mitigated: (a) by the post-expiratory rest; (b) by the substitution of muscular by elastic force in expiration; (c) by the automatic nature of the act; (d) by its self-regulation by the besoin de respirer.

1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 June 1395/2 There is thus a sort of self-regulation in the processes of life, by which waking and sleeping are alternately ensured.

1903 A. J. Ewart tr. W. Pfeffer Physiol. Plants II. vii. 162 Since the process of self-regulation involves mutual interactions, a retardation of growth in the shoot involves a slower growth of the root, and vice versa.

1954 J. S. Huxley Evolutionary Humanism 14 There has been an enormous rise in level of harmonious organization—think of a bird or a mammal as against a flatworm or a jellyfish; in flexibility and the capacity for self-regulation.

2004 Behavior & Philos. 32 327 The homeostatic self-regulation of body temperature.