Under our law, there is only one sentence which I can impose in respect of charge two, namely life imprisonment, and I sentence you to life imprisonment.
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The fiscal compact, first announced in December, is designed to impose discipline in government finances.
Since a law was passed in 2009, a judge can impose death in Maryland only if one of three factors exists: DNA evidence, a videotaped confession or a videotaped murder.
In a world where freedom of choice, and therefore moral relativism, are very much in fashion, the Vatican's efforts to impose unity in its own ranks have seemed heavy-handed.
The union said Network Rail had agreed not to impose rosters in the region and to hold further talks.
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And with Arsene Wenger's side missing Alexander Song, they struggled to impose themselves in midfield allowing Everton debutant Landon Donovan, in particular, to take advantage.
Earlier, the 30-year-old Federer showed his fighting qualities after trailing by a set and struggling to impose himself in the second where he had to save two break points on his own service.
Instead, U.S. commanders say it is hard to impose order in Iraq with just 150, 000 troops, and the return home of the 3rd Infantry Division -- one of the units that led the assault on Baghdad -- has been delayed indefinitely.
Debate is now under way in the Senate over a sprawling bill that would impose major changes in the country's energy policy.
For example, Mr Alito's vote was decisive in upholding a rule in Kansas obliging jurors to impose the death penalty in murder cases where they deem aggravating and mitigating factors to be of equal weight.
So they just don't have the numbers to really impose their will in Washington.
They don't hurt people, but they will impose more rigor in the system.
Mr Bush's decision to impose steel tariffs in March 2002 was designed, in part, to curry favour with steel workers.
South African troops may not be strong enough to impose peace even in their own backyard, let alone farther afield.
President Obama wants to impose similar policies in the United States and there is every reason to expect similarly poor results.
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After the killings, the Guatemalan authorities promised to impose stricter controls in jails, but also acknowledged that the prison system was close to collapse.
The idea is to impose sanctions early in the process rather than at the end, when they would only exacerbate a country's fiscal problems.
Impose a fee on banks whose size exceeds a certain percentage of GDP to cover the cost they would impose on taxpayers in a bailout, thus eliminating the implicit subsidy of their too-big-to-fail status.
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It is not our intention to impose undue formality in the chamber, but it is our opinion that members should address each other in the third person and by full names instead of first names only.
And if there is one man who might be able to impose some order in Colombia, it is the workaholic Uribe - a man characterised by iron discipline (he is up at five doing yoga every morning) and an obsessive sense of duty.
Although no changes to the current regime on religious slaughter are mooted in a new EU directive on animal welfare, due to come into force in January 2013, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister James Paice has noted that "member states can impose stricter rules in relation to religious slaughter if they wish".
In short, sprawl does impose some costs on particular groups in America, especially those in the inner cities.
In a move toward fiscal unity, EU leaders agreed to authorize a permanent rescue fund and impose losses on creditors in some cases.
Having found Microsoft guilty, Judge Jackson says he will move quickly--probably in the next three months--to impose remedies to rein it in.
These policies assist those in the high risk category but impose additional costs on lower risks in the form of higher medical premiums.
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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"The cowards who attacked Malala and her fellow students have shown time and again how little regard they have for human life and how low they can fall in their cruel ambition to impose their twisted ideology, " he said in a statement.
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The legislature ended up voting in November to impose the sales tax on computer services instead--since that industry wasn't in the original proposal, it hadn't ramped up its lobbying.
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