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'Say on Pay'? Sure, But How Often? 2011

They all essentially say moving these units outside of banks would court disaster as banks are the best-regulated entities in the nation's financial system.

Top Fed Official Supports Restricting Banks' Derivatives Bets, Goes FURTHER Than Obama 2010

"Accidents will happen, even in the best-regulated families, as my dear old mother used to say, constantly and to our undying irritation," observed the neat and darkhaired Miss Coles, winking at Keene.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

This was more than the best-regulated, or largest — which generally is the worst-regulated — feminine mind could put up with.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

“My dear friend Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “accidents will occur in the best-regulated families …”

Planned Short-Term Treatment RICHARD A. WELLS 1994

Some supervision and some intrusion, therefore, is of course absolutely necessary, but the best-regulated nursery is that in which it is least evident.

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

The morality of such a practice may be questioned; but policy, and not morality, is too frequently the doctrine of even the best-regulated states.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Awkward pauses will occur in all but the best-regulated parties, and people will get together, in the best houses, who quench and neutralize one another.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

To-morrow finds him stiff, lame, and wretched; he cannot lift his arm to his face to shave, nor lower it sufficiently to pull his boots on; his little daughter must help him with his shoes, and the indignant wife of his bosom must put on his hat, with that ineffectual one-sidedness to which alone the best-regulated female mind can attain, in this difficult part of costuming.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

One of his best ballads, in which he describes the bickerings which, even in the best-regulated families, will at times take place between man and wife, and in which various domestic missiles come into play, contains the following very excellent line --

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various