L. Dibert of Philadelphia won first prize for a noir photograph of a model seen from the back beneath an imposing shadow — a ghoulish hand moving in from the darkness (Slide 4).
Frustrated with the lower salaries that women tend to receive compared with men, an Australian cafe is taking matters into its own hands — imposing an 18percentt "gender pay gap tax" on male customers to highlight the issue of wage inequality.
When the troika came to Ireland, they did not have to impose a programme, hand down edicts or enforce decrees.
"There's a world of difference between the government imposing the heavy hand of censorship and this board saying to take a second look," Mr. Aftergood added.
Peter Johnson, WRUG secretary and himself a former railwayman, said losing the station would have imposed a "dead hand" on the town.
But as other dancers join him, and groups form, disappear and reform in quick flurries, the choreography begins to take on an arbitrary quality of sameness, as if Mr. Jones had let the dancers (all impressive) go their individual ways, rather than imposing a firm choreographic hand.
"The first and deputy first ministers emphasised this point to David Cameron at the economic conference in Belfast in October, pointing out the inconsistency of the London government promising to assist the executive in stimulating and developing the economy of Northern Ireland on the one hand and imposing a crushing blow like this with the other.
He let his son keep the pet, but imposed extensive hand-washing requirements any time a family member touched it.
But in April, the Taliban appeared and imposed a firm hand.
Justice Kennedy has been no liberal, to be sure, but he has been the single vote that kept Roe v. Wade on the books, was the first Justice to recognize the rights of gay people, and imposed a restraining hand on President Bush's excesses when it came to the treatment of detainees.
On the other hand, imposing rules that are so tough that the industry shrinks may lead to another diminution of Britain's global heft.
