The Communications Decency Act of 1996 ( CDA ) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

" Commonly, political jurisdictions will undertake land use planning and regulate the use of land in an attempt to avoid land use conflicts.

The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 called for Congress to modestly regulate the wireless industry and the Radio Act of 1912 was their first attempt to make more legislative oversight to the entire radio industry.

Sumptuary laws ( from Latin sumptuariae leges ) are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption.

Montaigne's brief essay " On sumptuary laws " criticized 16th-century French laws, beginning, " The way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed ... For to enact that none but princes shall eat turbot, shall wear velvet or gold lace, and interdict these things to the people, what is it but to bring them into a greater esteem, and to set every one more agog to eat and wear them?

The earliest recorded attempt to build a dam near Aswan was in the 11th century, when the Arab polymath and engineer Ibn al-Haytham ( known as Alhazen in the West ) was summoned to Egypt by the Fatimid Caliph, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, to regulate the flooding of the Nile, a task requiring an early attempt at an Aswan Dam.

In the United States, the British contention was generally regarded as an attempt to interfere with the United States ' sovereign rights to regulate its own commerce, and to use the canal in whatsoever manner it saw fit.

Most companies have policies against sexual harassment, however these policies are not designed and should not attempt to " regulate romance " which goes against human urges.

Manukau then made a further attempt to regulate prostitution with the Manukau City Council ( Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places ) Bill 197-1 ( 2010 )

The Opposition Agreement led to some public demonstrations, particularly against an attempt to regulate the Czech Television.

The register was an attempt to regulate entryists, but this measure was primarily aimed at the Militant tendency and had little effect on the newspaper prior to 1990.

Many communities attempt to regulate amateur radio or outdoor television antennas.

Leo J. Garofalo, Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College, states that “ an examination of records … the Spanish Crown ’ s attempt to regulate the flow of people to the Americas .” The ability to strictly regulate the flow of people allowed the Spanish Crown to keep a firm grip on power in the Americas.

Frequently these municipal street artist programs will describe designated locations where licensed street artists are allowed to display, as well as regulate what they are allowed to sell in an attempt to allow only handmade items of the artist's creation and not the manufactured work of others.

In many states, however, the attempt to regulate was ineffective.

He also describes how innovators are hampered both the uncertainty in the law and the content industry's attempt to use to law to regulate the internet in an attempt to protect their interests.

The next major attempt to regulate inexpensive firearms was the Gun Control Act of 1968, which used the " sporting purposes " test and a points system to exclude many small, inexpensive handguns which had been imported from European makers such as Röhm ( RG ).

The term may also be used specifically in relation to government policies that attempt to regulate matters considered to be private or personal, such as private sexual behavior or individual food choices.

The social or mental hygiene movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was an attempt by Progressive-era reformers to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use of scientific research methods and modern media techniques.

Some species have international governing bodies that attempt to regulate the terminology and format of breed standards internationally, but, even where such international agreement exists, not all associations for that species necessarily belong to the international governing body.

With the formation of the Terran Confederacy, Moria began to fear the Confederacy might attempt to move in and regulate their lucrative operations.

) And those who ... promise to the dwellers in towns that every one of them shall have a house and garden in free air, with ample space ; those who tell you that there shall be markets for selling at wholesale prices retail quantities — I won't say are imposters, because I have no doubt they are sincere ; but I will say they are quacks ( cheers ); they are deluded and beguiled by a spurious philanthropy, and when they ought to give you substantial, even if they are humble and modest boons, they are endeavouring, perhaps without their own consciousness, to delude you with fanaticism, and offering to you a fruit which, when you attempt to taste it, will prove to be but ashes in your mouths.

The sales figures are widely believed to represent books that have actually been sold at retail, rather than wholesale, as the Times surveys booksellers in an attempt to better reflect what is purchased by individual buyers.

Politics in Edison since the 2005 mayoral election have been polarized by an attempt by retail giant Walmart to open a store in central Edison near the junction of Interstate 287 and New Jersey Route 27.

The use of coupons in retail is an attempt to distinguish customers by their reserve price.

A controversial period in the Bank's history was the attempt in 1999 to enter the United States retail banking market via a joint venture with evangelist Pat Robertson.

The first attempt was unsuccessful after the targeted retail store was tipped off about the plan for people to gather.

In spite of all the difficult progress made, Loblaw would still have occasion to make strategic missteps in coming years, as it continued to innovate and attempt to anticipate the demands of the marketplace in a highly retail sector.

In 2012, two large Ferris Wheels and a retail district called Linq broke ground, in an attempt to further diversify the attractions offered on the strip beyond that of casino resorts.

We continue to believe that the best way to achieve results is to privately seek a resolution and not attempt to negotiate through the press or elected officials .” Time Warner stated that it would be willing to make the network available on their sports tier, as a premium service, or make the game available to its subscribers on a per-game basis, at a retail price set by the NFL, with 100 % of attendant revenue going to the league.

The Department of Justice did not attempt to verify the firearms reported in the survey or trace them to determine their chain of possession from original retail sale to the time they were transferred to the inmates surveyed ( in cases where inmates were not the original retail purchaser ).

In June 1999, in an attempt to become an integrated generating and retail company, British Energy bought the retail electricity and gas supplier SWALEC based in Wales, providing 6 % of the England and Wales electricity supply market.

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has indicated that he will not attempt to match Toyota and Honda in terms of hybrid models offered for retail sale.

In an attempt to capture the volatile retail sector, M modified its logo in late 1991 from pink to red, and added the word " aubaines " in diagonal and attached letters on the logo ; this was its final logo.

The absence of such safety features in an attempt to lower retail pricing is suspected to be one factor for the one-star crash test result.

After several mismanaged years when telecommunications services were in demand during the dot-com boom ( 1998 – 2001 ) and a brief frenetic attempt to sell directly to the consumer with a retail program in order to generate revenue, Comdial filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2005.

On 26 / 27 July, Auchinleck launched Operation Manhood in the northern sector in a final attempt to break the Axis forces.

This was the third attempt to break through in the northern sector, and the Axis defenders were expecting the attack.

The December 1935 Hoare – Laval Pact was an attempt by British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval to end the conflict in Abyssinia by proposing to partition the country into an Italian sector and an Abyssinian sector.

This move was done as an attempt to put Malaysia in as center for Islamic banking and also to liberalize the financial sector.

Swazi MTN has entered the Internet sector with basic mobile data services in an attempt to generate

Fans in the West have adopted a wide range of Japanese anime and manga terminology, however the strong stylistic and thematic similarities between a sector of shōjo works has led to regarding them as a genre or style, sometimes with an attempt to assign it by degrees.

Similarly, in the story line begun in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Coming of Age " and completed in " Conspiracy ", aliens from a faraway sector invade the bodies of high-ranking Starfleet admirals in an attempt to compromise the command structure and spearhead an invasion of Earth.

After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks ( mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout ).

The initial attempt had to be withdrawn in the face of a downturn in the stock market, and especially the Internet sector, during the summer of 1996.

The strikes were a result of the Labour government's attempt to control inflation by imposing rules on the public sector that pay rises be kept below 5 %, as an example to the private sector.

In an attempt to reduce the high unemployment rate in the sector the State forced the entire Belgian telephone network to become automated.

The Eastern Front remained static in the Vistula sector, with the Soviets making no attempt to push forward, until the Vistula-Oder Offensive began on 12 January 1945.

Thwarted in their attempt to gain control of Alberta's private banks, Aberhart's government gained a foothold in the province's financial sector by creating the Alberta Treasury Branches in 1938.

First Army's attempt to press forward in the western sector was eventually halted by Bradley before the town of Saint-Lô, in order to prioritize operations directed at the seizure of Cherbourg.

The move blocks regulations to implement the legislation which requires the financial services sector to comply with ambiguous and burdensome rules in an attempt to prevent unlawful Internet gambling transactions.

There has been an attempt to introduce new technologies to the sector, improve hygiene conditions, and also fund conversions of fish processing factories to other uses.

" They also believe that " the pursuit of economic well-being is best left to the private sector ," and that the United States should not attempt to spread its values because doing so increases resentment towards the U. S. and in turn, decreases its security.

Elements of the 92nd moved to the Serchio sector, 3 November 1944, and advanced in the Serchio River Valley against light resistance, but the attempt to capture Castelnuovo di Garfagnana did not succeed.

In the north, Rommel had the Italian infantry divisions — supported by the Ramcke Brigade and the German 164th Infantry Division — conduct a frontal demonstration in an attempt to fix the British defenders in place while Rommel ′ s main attack cut through the southern sector and then turn north in a sharp left hook movement into Allied supply lines.

Federal law not only sets the standards that govern workers ' rights to organize in the private sector, but also overrides most state and local laws that attempt to regulate this area.

* the voluntary sector was the main beneficiary of this attempt to develop a " mixed economy of care "