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Critics in both the public and private sectors have been particularly harsh in their assessment of what they see as BSEE’s failures to act as a robust regulative authority.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Even as he signed six measures, Mr. Brown, a moderate Democrat with a history of resistance to some efforts to regulate guns, vetoed five others that he described as overly regulative.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2016

Others say the FDA’s latest ban exceeds its regulative authority and that food producers had better beware of other unhealthy ingredients.

From Washington Times • Jun. 16, 2015

At the Big Ten school I attend in the Midwest, regulative policies are in full effect, and it is notoriously hard to obtain an attention-deficit diagnosis, regardless of diagnostic history. 

From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2013

The regulative action of the body upon the soul, although far less uniform, presents a fair analogy.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various