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.
At the same time, companies were wrestling with whether to impose rules on how employees used the blogs.
Are those who want to impose import restrictions against countries with low labor standards willing to lift those restrictions against countries that start to pay decent wages?
Thailand, over the objections of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is reportedly going forward with efforts to impose an absurdly graphic series of warnings on all alcohol products.
However, as the half wore on, United's veteran midfield duo of Paul Scholes and Giggs started to impose themselves on the game with Nani - who replaced Antonio Valencia in the starting line-up - also finding space on the right.
The AU supports the sanctions imposed by the ECOWAS in Mali and "further decided to impose their own sanctions, with asset freezes and travel bans against leaders of the military junta and all those involved in contributing to the 'destabilization' of Mali, " said Ramtane Lamamra, commissioner for peace and security.
And they would be unable to impose prohibitively high costs on patients with chronic health problems.
America's steel tariffs notwithstanding, rich countries impose low barriers on manufacturing trade with each other.
Italy, in particular, surprised its neighbours, and the financial markets, with its willingness to impose tough fiscal measures.
You come to understand that reality is malleable, to those with the tenacity to impose their will over it.
They want to impose austerity on the private economy with tax increases.
If Ms. Schooler goes ahead with her plan to impose checkout fees, she will have to abide by some restrictions in the settlement.
Imagine the chaos this would wreak in the administration of state programs, and the pressure it would impose on states not to experiment with divorce law.
If the EU sought to impose protectionist measures on its trade with us and others outside the euro core, it would have to face the world authorities.
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.
He claims to be a reformer, and has always depended on his personal bond with the voters to impose change on his own, reluctant party, which knows it cannot do without him.
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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With Real struggling to impose themselves, the visitors went close again and were unfortunate that Pjanic's teasing free-kick was closest to centre-half Cris, who failed to make proper contact inside the six-yard box when any significant touch would surely have found the target.
In Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, thousands of protesters are clashing with police and threatening to impose an indefinite economic blockade.
Libertarians dislike them for their preoccupation with using the state to impose virtue.
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The new watchdog will not impose automatic limits - and will deal with companies on a case by case basis.
They need to mute the media's ability and willingness to impose a large reputational cost on companies with poor corporate governance.
The sad reality is that the uninsured don't just struggle with costs themselves, they impose costs on the rest of us.
With the initial plan to impose a levy on all bank deposits rejected by parliament, a number of alternatives have been suggested.
Also, Delta's contract with ASA allows it to impose its own cancellations on its regional partner, which it sometimes does to make room for its own flights.
Most cities have pledged to lower home prices below the rate of wage inflation, but are still toying with whether or not to impose the 20% tax on second hand home purchases.
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There was near-unanimous agreement that it would be crazy to drive job-creating capital out of the US economy and there was also near-unanimous agreement that the IRS had no authority to impose a regulation that was completely inconsistent with the laws enacted by Congress.
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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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If you're a Labour MP the ill-tempered debate was about a 'partisan', 'ill-conceived', 'ill-judged', 'ham-fisted', 'high-handed', 'arrogant' - and I could go on - attempt to impose new electoral arrangements on the Assembly with little regard to what its members, or the people of Wales want, arrangements, at that, that'll favour the Tories in future elections.
Among the company's motivations to settle before a trial would be to avoid the higher end of that range, which U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier could impose if he ruled the company acted with gross negligence before the well blowout on April 10, 2010, that triggered an explosion, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
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