S: (v) regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations) "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
S: (v) govern (direct or strongly influence the behavior of) "His belief in God governs his conduct"
S: (v) necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand (require as useful, just, or proper) "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
S: (v) claim, take, exact (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs) "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
S: (v) govern (require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood) "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German"
S: (v) draw (require a specified depth for floating) "This boat draws 70 inches"
S: (v) cost (require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice) "This mistake cost him his job"