We were deeply troubled to learn that President Clinton has recently agreed to impose constraints on and, within a few years, to ban outright the use of even self-destructing anti-personnel landmines.
And for Scotland to be a formal part of such a sterling zone, the Bank of England and HM Treasury would wish to impose constraints on the financial risks that Scotland's banks could take - to limit liabilities for British taxpayers.
If past experience is any guide, such agreements will impose significant constraints on U.S. abilities to introduce new military technologies.
Regrettably, even the current U.S. position would impose significant constraints on this force, particularly with respect to the number and range of its missiles.
As for the stability pact, it seems perverse to impose artificial constraints on borrowing when both monetary and exchange-rate flexibility have just been removed and greater fiscal flexibility may be needed to compensate.
The social function, for instance, imposes different constraints on entrepreneurial and managerial functions, while the entrepreneurial and managerial functions impose their own constraints on the social function of a corporation.
At a time when Britain's fiscal position, though deteriorating, is stronger than that of just about any other major economy, Mr Letwin is prepared to impose ferocious spending constraints in areas traditionally favoured by Conservative governments, such as the armed forces, the police, prisons and the roads.
The two governments impose tariffs and other constraints on each other.
Set loose on a seemingly boundless field of possibility, they soon see that the transient, meaningless features of materialist living and petty competition impose their own painful constraints on achievement and satisfaction.
Mother Nature has done a fine job all these years, who are we to impose our ill-judged constraints?
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Rather than impose on our government, industry, and people the costs and constraints of the CWC, U.S. officials could more constructively direct their energies to devising means to enforce the existing ban on chemical-weapons use, the Geneva Protocol.
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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Economic hardship and tightening spending constraints have brought the resulting tensions into the open: witness the recent row over whether the government should impose a windfall tax on energy companies and use the money to help poor families meet their rising fuel bills (it didn't).
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