Europe's system is more regulatory and bureaucratic and, unlike America's, never involves criminal sanctions.
The White House wants criminal sanctions to stop Mr Assange, and changes in the law if necessary.
Ministers have indicated they are prepared to look at criminal sanctions as one of a number of future options.
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It was these actions that led to the criminal sanctions, and also persuaded the government to suspend CSFP's banking license in Japan.
Companies who own care homes in England where abuse is carried out should face unlimited fines and criminal sanctions, a former minister has said.
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Mr Osborne responded that the previous Labour government had failed to act, and created the FSA but did not give it powers extending to criminal sanctions.
If criminal sanctions disappear, drug tests are likely to proliferate.
Police officials testifying in the House of Lords cross-party parliamentary group investigating the issue said that the existing criminal sanctions for drug users is not nearly denting their use.
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Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, who chairs the Commons Treasury committee, urged the chancellor to amend the Financial Services Bill to allow for criminal sanctions over "both derivatives and Libor".
But a spokesman for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions insisted that criminal sanctions would only be employed in "extreme cases for people who flout the law".
Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute notes that a mere three mentions of crime in the Constitution have blossomed into 3, 000 federal criminal statutes and perhaps 300, 000 regulations with criminal sanctions.
Requiring unlimited taxes over and above the level of government services you provide to a taxpayer and threatening criminal sanctions to enforce this requirement, will in the short-term produce tax revenue.
There could also be criminal sanctions against some individuals.
Criminal sanctions are also available to federal prosecutors.
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But the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations organization, does not have the authority to enforce its own guidelines, nor can it impose fines or criminal sanctions against cruise lines that flout Safety of Life at Sea recommendations.
The legislature passed a bill that would have provided that qualified users, providers and health care professionals shall not be arrested, prosecuted or subject to other criminal sanctions or civil consequences under state law, so long as certain criteria are met.
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"I think he believes there is a place for using the criminal sanctions to address the drug-abuse problem, but he's more open to giving a hard look to solutions that look at the demand side of the equation, " said Alison Holcomb, drug-policy director with the Washington state American Civil Liberties Union.
Although the status-check provision contains no criminal sanctions or authority for the state to hold illegal immigrants without federal permission, it emerged as the flash point of controversy over effectively enlisting every Arizona law officer in a state campaign to "discourage and deter" the presence of illegal immigrants, as the statute says.
There should be criminal and civil sanctions for anyone that does not properly secure them whether they are actually used to commit a crime or not.
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It remains to be seen whether the Romney campaign or any politicians similarly caught on tape will seek redress or attempt to enforce criminal or civil sanctions in an effort to prevent these practices.
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If you still refuse you could face sanctions for criminal or civil contempt.
Without a doubt, sanctions for criminal misconduct should serve the interests of justice.
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He promised the assembled staff and analysts that if they keep applying themselves, they won't be personally marked for career-destroying sanctions or criminal prosecutions, even as disbelieving counterterrorism professionals -- the field operatives and their foreign partners -- shut down critical operations for fear of public disclosure and political retribution in the never-ending Beltway soap opera called Capitol Hill.
Boards, directors and senior managers at private hospitals who allow abuse to take place will face tougher sanctions - including possibly criminal prosecutions, he said.
There are also further sanctions available beyond the criminal justice system.
If no action is taken after 15 days, they could be subject to legal sanctions, product seizure or even criminal prosecution.
In Scotland, the devolved administration has already tightened dog-control legislation, enabling enforcement officers to impose sanctions on the owners of out-of-control dogs and extending the criminal law on dog control to cover attacks taking place on private property.
Criminal prosecution and punishment are not the same as, or a substitute for, congressionally imposed sanctions.
Among other measures, the Second Protocol specifies the sanctions to be imposed for serious violations of the Convention and defines the conditions in which individual criminal responsibility shall apply.
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