The reality is much simpler: bleeding-edge features impose bleeding-edge power requirements.
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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.
Despite espousing free-market principles, Nixon actually went on to impose wage-and-price controls as well as protectionist measures on foreign trade.
The solution, the regulators believe, is to press bravely ahead and impose fair-value rules for all financial instruments.
It is the remaining 39, 000 police officers who impose zero-tolerance policing, without much need for aggressive street searches.
They are determined to impose rule-making authority over national governments, including U.S. senators.
Governments often impose anti-dumping duties on foreign products to right this terrible wrong.
British Eurosceptics fear that the draft constitution would allow Brussels to impose continental-style labour-market restrictions on Britain, thereby importing continental-style high unemployment.
One other answer, judged legal for the first time in France last month, is to impose night-time curfews on the young and potentially delinquent.
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Bruised by the ruling, the SEC is seeking from Congress the power to impose much-larger penalties on financial firms and individuals that commit fraud.
In the UK the Chancellor has already secured a review of climate laws because they impose short-term costs on people already struggling to pay energy bills.
Previously, stewards could only impose drive-through or time penalties on drivers or drop them down the grid if they were deemed to have infringed the rules.
As a result, the IRS will not impose accuracy-related penalties on payors that file forms 1099-K provided that the payors make good-faith efforts in filing accurate forms.
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Impose non-DNA-supported qualities on your offering, and you discredit yourself.
Governments could define best practice on dealing with information flows and the processing of data, just as they require firms to label processed foods with the ingredients or impose public-health standards.
Morgan Stanley, for instance, sponsors a fund of funds, Liquid Markets Fund I, that puts investors' money into an assortment of hedge funds that each impose one-way incentive fees (plus annual management fees).
In a speech to Parliament, Mr. Cameron welcomed the call for a new regulator "with the power to demand upfront apologies and impose million-pound fines, " but expressed concern about underpinning the organization in law.
At present the Bundesbank can preach about risks to financial stability but it cannot impose counter-measures such as setting higher capital requirements for banks or putting constraints on specific types of lending such as mortgages.
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We recognize that the Senate has chosen in the Claiborne proceedings and elsewhere not to impose its -- on itself any single standard of proof, but rather to leave that judgment to the conscience of the individual senator.
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If crises can hit us at any moment for no reason, and not because, say, governments impose self-reinforcing down-spiral accounting rules on the banks, then it is easier to believe that we should spend our time figuring out ways to mitigate the inevitable consequences rather than trying to prevent what cannot be prevented.
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Federal legislation passed in 1996 says that if you have "credible coverage, " which the large majority of employer-provided coverage is, the new employer's coverage cannot impose a pre-existing condition exclusion.
Why do you think it is that the British and American people look at a situation that they think is, frankly, a mess -- they see terrible sacrifice, they see two men who are unable to impose their wills -- and they just are not persuaded by your arguments?
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The Center finds that other arguments being conjured up by opponents of this facility -- notably those involving charges that it will impose significant environmental damage -- are similarly unfounded.
At Stansted it said it wanted to impose a price-monitoring regime, rather than a price cap.
Mattel and other toy makers have reportedly asked the government to impose mandatory safety-testing standards.
Today, Baker wants the U.S. to rescind that deal, to re-impose the old sock tariff.
The Illinois bill would impose a 25-cent tax on the purchase of athletic shoes.
The House version, sponsored by Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, would impose a one-year delay.
"If the registration scheme shows an imbalance in the labour market we will re-impose restrictions, " he said.
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