It marks a general toughening of the US position over the course of this year.
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But, fearful of a stampede of benefit-seeking Roma (Gypsies), Britain is toughening eligibility rules for benefits.
Another of the trip's aims is to address controversy over the recent toughening of UK visa rules.
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But, despite his mild manner, Mr Cem has been toughening Turkey's foreign policy towards east and north.
In 2007, the House passed a package toughening WARN, but the measure never came to a vote in the Senate.
It has gone further in toughening budgetary rules and integrating economic policies than anyone thought possible a year ago.
And by toughening regulations, it could in the long run reduce smoking rates.
Capping magazine capacities, toughening mental health screening, and similar measures need not be loaded with that kind of weight.
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Mr Arditti said the idea of holding a public hearing was an example of the committee toughening up its role.
Central European countries are toughening visa regimes and customs services, making it harder for Russians to go and do business there.
On July 28th a new securities law will come into effect in Mexico, tightening provisions against corporate self-dealing and toughening the penalties.
The toughening process all soldiers go through, not so much in these mollycoddled days, but in the early days it was hard.
But, asked if he supported a toughening of the laws, he paused.
If I had designed him for team play, I might have concentrated on toughening up the turret, so it could provide flank support.
Johnson oversaw two major overhauls of the course, adding hundreds of yards in length and toughening holes as players hit the ball ever-increasing distances.
At an earlier debate in July, Belgium's Climate Minister Paul Magnette told MEPs that the Council of Ministers was not ruling out toughening the legislation on oil safety.
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The case for toughening capital requirements is particularly strong for banks that are implicitly backed by taxpayers, whether through deposit insurance or because they are judged too big to fail.
The rate at which banks lend to each other has been rising, which has meant that banks are toughening up their lending terms even though official interest rates are falling.
The telecommunications reform has been enthusiastically received by most economic experts and civil-society groups in the week since its introduction, with near unanimous praise of its toughening of the Mexican regulatory system.
But we are toughening up community sentences so every sentence contains a genuine punishment, including fines, unpaid work and strict curfews and exclusion zones - which can be enforced with state-of-the-art GPS tracking.
Though Mr. Campbell talks of toughening a balanced-budget law, he has also admitted that his plan to reduce income taxes without making big spending cuts means renewed deficits in provincial finances until 2004.
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Trade unions representing the police and 6, 700 magistrates want a toughening of the law, in force since the start of this year, that limits the time a suspect can be held without trial.
In light of the toughening regulatory framework for product safety (pro-consumer changes to the general product safety laws are further along), they have asked the commission to add a defense based on regulatory compliance.
The most dramatic is likely to be a toughening of capital-adequacy standards, endorsed recently by G20 finance ministers and a group of central bankers and supervisors that oversees the Basel capital rules (see article).
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the proposals would "emphasise our commitment to boosting the status of the profession by toughening up the recruitment process and ensuring that all new teachers have a real depth of knowledge in their subject".
And he has been seeking to change American policy towards Iraq by trying to unite the fractured Gulf war coalition behind a new sanctions regime, which would reduce economic sanctions in exchange for toughening the control of exports with military uses.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semiautomatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semi-automatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
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