regularizing , also: regularising BrE

The introduction of bells into all the steeples of Christendom had been an early factor in regularizing the habits of the people - their first lesson in working to the clock.

By 1632 they had installed themselves in their own Hall, Cobham House in Blackfriars, where they embarked upon regularizing their trade and setting examinations for their Apprentices.

By regularizing such events and by greatly adding to the pageantry that surrounds them, we can weave them into the ritual framework of the new society and use them as sanity-preserving points of temporal reference.

A further regularizing of immigration law would make it harder for the U.S. to practice the hypocrisy that leads it to oppose the forced repatriation of Vietnamese "boat people" from Hong Kong while it wants to forcibly return desperate Haitians to a constant hell.