Over the years, policy makers and colleagues said, he has consistently tried to shape regulatory ground rules instead of instinctively resisting regulation.

Heavy industry tends to be polluting and has considerable power to resist environmental regulation.

Republicans, who once resisted federal regulation of health insurance, now accept it as inevitable.

Like most industries, cosmetic companies resist regulation by government agencies.

Doctors and medical associations have resisted regulation of the clinics.

Venneforeningen resists such regulation, insisting that the primary use of the island remain housing for leisure.

Wall Street's establishment resists government oversight and regulation.

Private companies had resisted regulation through lobbying Congress and state legislatures.

We will, of course, resist further unnecessary regulation.

It will be interesting to see whether participants in them continue to resist regulation as much as they have in the past.