Since government's involvement in the economy is unfortunately pervasive and since many legitimate companies receive government contracts to perform services, the Democrats' proposal establishes a precedent to impose or threaten to impose targeted taxes on companies that receive government contracts.
Countries that extend financial help have a right to impose conditions to ensure that their loans are repaid.
It is giving new powers to impose fines to England's exams watchdog Ofqual.
It is actually quite easy to impose accountability to the governing process.
Having found Microsoft guilty, Judge Jackson says he will move quickly--probably in the next three months--to impose remedies to rein it in.
It grew rather as an ad hoc, untidy resistance to what they considered Israel's attempt to impose militarily what it had failed to impose diplomatically at the Camp David summit last year: a solution on Israel's terms.
With the NFL allowed to impose its restraints through an impasse in bargaining and seemingly free to impose their system on the players as long as the players had a collective bargaining agent (union), Upshaw decided to have the players become antitrust litigants rather than union members.
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Yet rogue IRS bureaucrats want to impose a regulation to overturn the outcome of the democratic process.
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Scarcely more appetizing is LOST's empowering of a UN agency to impose what amount to international taxes.
The BBC's Barbara Plett reports from the UN that the US had wanted to impose new sanctions to punish Pyongyang.
If that fails to work by January 2003, a 12-member commission can start to impose price limits to take effect in July.
For example, its governing body would be empowered to impose what amount to international taxes on resources extracted from the ocean floor and subsurface.
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In a move without precedent and with ominous implications, the International Seabed Authority would have the power to impose what amounts to taxes on American citizens.
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However, as bandwidth becomes more in demand, one of the few ways to regulate its usage is to impose data caps to ensure that as many customers as possible have access to broadband services.
Dependent as they would almost certainly be on Communists and other Europhobic left-wingers were they to get a parliamentary majority, it is questionable whether the Socialists would be willing, let alone able, to impose the austerity to squeeze France's budget deficit from last year's 4.2% to the required 3%.
"It is possible that if we seek to excessively impose our views on other foreign states, we are setting a precedent for some of them to impose our views on us, " Lord Tebbit said.
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The officials we elect find it far easier to impose across-the-board cuts than to make choices that impose losses on particular programs and their constituencies, something demonstrated again most recently by the super-committee.
That would imply strong powers to impose fines, or to pass on individuals' names for prosecution.
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There was even a threat to impose curriculum by statute to achieve this end.
This is also the justification President Obama used to impose an individual mandate to buy coverage or else pay a penalty.
And, with many people rushing to take their money out of banks, the authorities have had to impose restrictions on withdrawals to avert a collapse of the financial system.
The construction boom comes as prices have risen 70% in the past five years, prompting the government to impose taxes on sales to foreigners or on locals buying multiple units.
But a new EU-wide directive that could come into force at the end of this year will give regulators the power to impose penalties of up to 2% of a multinational's global annual turnover.
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Yet, Obamacare also subjects Medicare to a politically unaccountable Independent Payment Advisory Commission of Washington bureaucrats with the power to impose even more cuts to Medicare payments for doctors and hospitals, without approval from Congress!
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This is the core principle of universities: the pursuit and free exchange of ideas is vital and uplifting, and efforts that seek to impose a particular viewpoint to the exclusion of others should be fiercely resisted.
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Mr Johnson insisted that "there is an absence of boundaries and an absence of respect" behind the rioting in England, and called on society to give "the right to impose authority" back to parents and teachers.
He said the court had taken all matters into consideration and noted the case could have been prosecuted at an earlier date, which led the court to impose a lower sentence to date from Friday rather than a backdated tariff.
And even as we do that with Russia, we have the "Friends of Syria" group, where we are working with like-minded nations -- European partners, Arab partners, Turkey -- to put pressure on the Assad regime, to impose sanctions, and to support a transition and support the Syrian opposition.
In recognition of the important role they play in the economy and to encourage them to be stable, governments provide deposit insurance but then also impose regulations to limit the chances this insurance has to be called on.
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England continued to impose themselves until the end to claim a deserved bronze medal.
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