In Greece, large tax hikes were imposed as part of the austerity measures demanded by foreign lenders.
EU, along with Australia and the United States, imposed as one of its sanctions an embargo on arms sales.
As the price of art works soared, it was imposed as a way of helping artists and their descendants get a cut of highly profitable transactions.
Eurostar cancelled some services and warned passengers to expect delays of up to an hour as speed restrictions were imposed as a result of snow and ice.
The latest fine is a record for a single company, imposed as what EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes calls "a reasonable response to a series of quite unreasonable actions".
The Rugby Football League's board of directors will meet on Friday to decide on the points penalty to be imposed as a result of the club going into administration.
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The lawyers said the NYPD's actions violate rules, known as the Handschu guidelines, that a court had imposed as part of a 1985 landmark settlement with the NYPD to a lawsuit they filed.
Capital controls are to be imposed as Cyprus seeks to raise 5.8bn euros to qualify for a 10bn-euro bailout from the European Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the so-called troika.
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Having held that the individual insurance requirement was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, the fate of Obamacare rested on whether the mandate could be imposed as part of the taxing powers afforded to Congress.
Laurenzi's statement comes after Braun publicly blasted Major League Baseball's drug testing system and an arbitration board tossed out a 50-game suspension imposed as the result of the drug test Braun took last year.
And as a sop to Shas, a religious party that is another needed partner in his coalition, Mr Netanyahu has reversed some of the cuts in child allowances he himself imposed as finance minister four years ago.
Any limitation to freedom of expression must be imposed as a truly exceptional measure, must be provided by law, and in the pursue of legitimate purpose and be proven as necessary and the least restrictive means possible .
Fast-forward to the Revolution of 1789 and francien-derived French was imposed as the language of liberty and nationhood, its spread then aided by the emergence of a French press in the 19th century and, from 1882, by compulsory schooling.
Later it was expounded on by various Islamic scholars, such as Ibn Taymiiya in the 13th century, but it did not become institutionalized until the mid-18th century when the theories promulgated by the radical cleric Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were accepted and imposed as the state religion of his realm by the founder of the House of Saud.
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Into the chaos, the fumbling in the dark, an order is imposed as people form circles around performers, a troupe of acrobats, jugglers and escape artists, a comedian, a group of musicians, a story-teller... this is trial by public jury: if the performance falls flat, the tricks fail to amuse or the stories to amaze, the crowds move on.
He said the state of emergency was imposed solely as a means to fight terrorism, and that it was "this reason only which has justified maintaining it on a legal basis".
Yet already we see the growing economic problems created by the austerity programs imposed on countries as requirements for the loans.
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One of these risks is the threat of economic stagnation driven by de-leverage and government-imposed austerity, as it was discussed in previous pieces.
They can also be imposed upon parents as a condition of having children returned to a household in families with a history of alcohol abuse.
The timing of general elections is not fixed in the UK. We have taken the five-year time limit imposed on governments as the point at which to judge whether or not a pledge has been met.
And of course that scandal falls closely on the heels of other recent cases where high-profile schools such as USC, Ohio State, Tennessee, and North Carolina have or will succumb to penalties imposed upon their programs as the result of violating NCAA rules.
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Jason Furman, an economic adviser to the president, says states such as Massachusetts that imposed requirements for employers to provide coverage haven't seen declines in employment as a result.
Its maker, Claude Lanzmann, seemed to come from nowhere, even as he imposed his vision everywhere.
Amazon taxes are imposed in states such as New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Colorado.
This is why seniority-based layoffs, such as those imposed in Chicago, are so harmful to society at large.
The tax is already imposed on items such as books and CDs sold over the internet in European countries.
Businesses saw environmental regulations as newly imposed costs on operations, which they were.
We normally think of taxes as being imposed on individuals or corporations.
Rather, their task is to determine the risks imposed on the system as a whole if common exposures significantly increase the correlation of returns across institutions.
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