Sentence examples for could have imposed from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, Moscow could have imposed currency controls.

The S.E.C. could have imposed an array of additional punishments, legal experts say.

Under French securities law, the regulator could have imposed a fine of up to €10 million.

If those talks failed, the United States could have imposed trade sanctions.

He said he wished that he could have imposed a wealth tax or abolish, rather than reduce, the mortgage deduction.

Although the judge could have imposed a 20-year term, Mr. Anwar said he was expecting six years.

The legislation could also have imposed penalties for failing to create the accounts.

It could at least have imposed one more on a par with that of another player who got into trouble recently, for a repeat drug-related offense.

Placing a restriction on the advertisements that partners could run would have imposed its own enforcement costs as well.

Mr Blair has hinted often enough that he is conscious of walking in the footsteps of Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher one the inventor of the welfare state, the other a pro-market reformer each of whom could be said to have imposed their own post-war "settlement" (his word) on Britain.

"The de facto ban on rare earths export that China has imposed could have a very big impact on Japan's economy," the economic and fiscal policy minister, Banri Kaieda, told a news conference Tuesday.