• Imposing one-size-fits-all regulations on a state that already has universal health care and is leading the way on cost containment is counterproductive to say the least.

    FORBES: Boston Globe's Flip-Flop on Obamacare's 'Counterproductive' Regulations

  • Upon reaching the top, you emerge from the trees onto a small rocky clearing looking directly onto a long dragons-back-like range of grey snow-capped peaks: the imposing 5, 600m-high Jade Dragon.

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  • For that matter, it is frequently echoed even by some of their own office-holders, frustrated by the party's inability to command the necessary cloture-imposing and veto-proof majorities on Capitol Hill.

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  • Today's paper says, "even when US forces are committed to a large-scale operation in one region, they will be capable of denying the objectives of - or imposing unacceptable costs on - an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".

    BBC: Re-ordering of priorities in new US defence strategy

  • "What we are trying to do is preserve the FDA's role here, not have juries second-guess on a case-by-case and state-by-state basis imposing different safety obligations on manufacturers when Congress has established a regime for FDA to control this, " said Anthony Yang of the solicitor general's office.

    NPR: Court: Can Generic Drug Maker Be Sued Over Design?

  • At that point she becomes an obsessive organizer of the search, and a compulsive scourge of anyone who threatens to stand in her way. (One fatuous Pakistani functionary insists that the abduction is an Indian plot.) Given Angelina Jolie's celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn't happened.

    WSJ: Film Review

  • The 339 modern rooms at the imposing, steel-and-glass Trump Hotel Chicago soar above the Loop, many with giant all-limestone bathrooms, fireplaces, kitchens and floor-to-ceiling windows with expansive city and water views.

    BBC: Business trip: Chicago

  • Imposing an across-the-board tariff for the direct purpose of stifling trade would lead to a WTO-sanctioned retaliation where other countries start slapping tariffs on our exports.

    FORBES: Trumped-Up Policies: Ready for the 'Trump Tax'?

  • Army engineers set up a barrier - much less imposing than in previous years - across the bridge below Drumcree Church.

    BBC: Officers injured after march ban

  • Unfortunately, Obamacare is trying to halt this cost-control effort by imposing crippling restrictions on high-deductible plans.

    FORBES: Another Broken Obama Promise: The Healthcare Cost Monster Emerges

  • Bremer said it is critical that he discuss the ideas first with the Governing Council, and the White House concern is that it not be seen as imposing a plan -- and a new government structure -- on Iraq.

    CNN: Bush: Iraqis should assume more responsibility

  • For example, the Fed could pop housing bubbles by imposing a maximum loan-to-value ratio for mortgages.

    ECONOMIST: Sometimes it helps if investors are gloomy

  • For the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, creating a club-within-a-club is the only means of imposing discipline on wayward members.

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  • Both men continued to pepper the boundary, with Porterfield smashing Shakib for six over long-on, as the score reached an imposing 69-0 after 10 overs.

    BBC: Porterfield scores century as Ireland beat Bangladesh

  • In a 1995 speech, Clinton vowed to "mend" affirmative action, not "end" it and to establish guidelines that would help disadvantaged firms compete more readily with their better-established counterparts without imposing "reverse discrimination" on white-owned businesses.

    CNN: Mending Government Contracting

  • Needing 18 from spinner Saeed Ajmal's final over, the left-hander powered Australia past Pakistan's imposing target of 191-6 with a ball to spare.

    BBC: Clarke praises 'freakish' Hussey

  • The Scots found it difficult to find space behind well-organised and physically-imposing opponents and with half an hour gone Lithuanian goalkeeper Gintaras Stauce was yet to get his gloves dirty.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Internationals | Scotland | Scotland battle past Lithuania

  • How on earth can the stock market be going up (we just had the biggest one-week rally in two years) with these imposing and potentially long-lasting problems all around us?

    FORBES: The Wealth Effect And Unintended Consequences

  • So presumably, if the deal is allowed to proceed, the ECB will ensure that all the risk actually remains with Bankia and the Spanish government - and therefore with Spanish taxpayers - by imposing a massive discount (or haircut) on the amount of cash it would exchange for the bonds.

    BBC: No magic potion for eurozone banks

  • Mr. Enzi's Marketplace Fairness Act discriminates against Internet-based businesses by imposing burdens that it does not apply to brick-and-mortar companies.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Internet Sales Tax Rush

  • Waterhouse always said his decision to quit the left-leaning newspaper was down to one man - the imposing owner Robert Maxwell, whom he nicknamed Cap'n Bob and who had tried to insist he wrote an opinionated piece on trades union ballots.

    BBC: Obituary: Keith Waterhouse

  • During his term, the agency loosened restrictions on some items -- such as cigarette lighters, matches and small scissors -- while imposing limits on liquids and gels because of the August 2006 liquid bomb scare.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • It is nonsensical for the deficit-ridden U.S. government to subsidize corn-derived ethanol while imposing punitive tariffs on imports of Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane.

    FORBES: Ethanol Subsidies: Dumping Corn In The Ocean Would Be A Better Idea

  • During the 2008 campaign, for instance, then-Senator Obama suggested that the programs giant long-run deficit could be addressed by busting the wage-base cap and imposing the payroll tax on a larger amount of income.

    FORBES: Obama Embraces Another Class-Warfare Proposal

  • Once licensed, teen drivers must go through an intermediate stage for a set period that limits unsupervised driving at certain times, with most states limiting the number of non-family-member passengers and imposing other restrictions.

    FORBES: What To Do About The Sudden Surge In Teen Traffic Deaths

  • Unlike more ambitious collectors such as Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, whose broad range of master-paintings is housed at the imposing Villahermosa Palace in Madrid, Mr Beyeler does not claim to have mounted an exhaustive panorama that takes in every movement in 20th-century art.

    ECONOMIST: Another way to house art

  • Is he a modernising democrat - one of the best that the Middle East offers - or is he gradually imposing a socially conservative agenda and is he a strongman in the making, uncomfortable with dissent?

    BBC: Is Prime Minister Erdogan Turkey's new strongman?

  • At 60 she remains the best- and most interesting-looking person in the room: imposing, bewitching, singular.

    WSJ: Anjelica Huston

  • Yet for all its shortcomings, Mr Yeats's work does sound an important warning especially for Brazil, which forced Mercosur to adopt higher-than-average tariffs on capital goods while itself imposing tariffs of up to 70% on imported cars.

    ECONOMIST: Trade agreements

  • During the 1930s countries had resorted to beggar-thy-neighbor policies, such as devaluing currencies and imposing trade and capital restrictions.

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