English common law early imposed social responsibilities for the well-being of travelers upon the inns and taverns, declaring them to be public houses which must receive all travelers in reasonable condition who were willing to pay the price for food, drink, and lodging.
The Metropolitan police had earlier imposed Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 for a number of hours, which provides powers to remove masks when police fear a crime will be committed.
On Monday, a federal judge in Miami sentenced Marianella Valera, a former mental health company executive, to 35 years in prison for her role in a $205 million fraud at American Therapeutic; a 50-year sentence was earlier imposed on her co-defendant, Lawrence Duran.
The same plutocratic operation that Robert Reich documents to have been imposed by Obama on BP, was earlier imposed by him upon the Wall Street firms whose mortgage frauds, and defrauding of investors, had crashed the U.S. economy.
When the state had earlier imposed a more stringent discharge standard for treated wastewater of 500 mg/L of total dissolved solids, drillers had found it more cost-effective to invest in centralized and mobile wastewater treatment for recycling and reuse in fracking operations than to discharge into the environment.
You can argue about the rights and wrongs of raising the pension age early, or imposing a blanket public sector pay freeze, but you can't dismiss them as proposals that are insignificant.
In Brazil the widespread use of electrical showerheads for providing hot water for domestic consumption contributes to a load curve that peaks in the early evening, imposing a considerable burden to generation, transmission, and distribution utilities.
Some lawmakers earlier proposed imposing sanctions on Talisman and other Western companies that do business in Sudan, but those measures were not included in the final bill.
On March 1, Mr. Wen's State Council took a parting jab at the sector, demanding that local governments enforce an earlier rule imposing a 20 percent tax on profits when people sell secondary homes.
Sitting in his home under a picture of Pope John Paul II, he wonders how many more people could have been saved if the guns had fallen silent earlier.The imposing view of the Mediterranean he once enjoyed from his flat is a distant memory, blocked by new buildings.
