Sentence examples for enforce tariffs from inspiring English sources

In this instance, said Kingdom, utilities have to invest in delivering a better service before they enforce tariffs.

The blockbuster musical that is re-introducing our founding fathers is based upon Ron Chernow's extremely read-able biography of the man who not only created the nation's financial system but also, among a hundred or so other things, served as George Washington's wartime ghost-writer/bad cop and created the Coast Guard to enforce tariffs that would help pay the bills.

…Carolina then adopted (1832) the Ordinance of Nullification, proclaiming both tariffs null and void within the state and threatening to secede if the federal government attempted to enforce the tariffs.

To enforce their tariffs, the Non-Golden States would need to close the boarder.

Over roughly the next two years, conflict arose in the area near modern-day Houston between Texans and a group composed of officials of the Mexican government and the small military force sent there to enforce the tariff as well as prevent smuggling and Anglo-American immigration.

President Jackson, who denied such a right, prepared to sign a Force Bill allowing the federal government to use military action to enforce the tariff.

On 4 August 1790 the United States Congress, urged on by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, created the Revenue-Marine, the forerunner for the United States Coast Guard, to enforce the tariff and all other maritime laws.

Political reasons may account for the reluctance of the SNWA to enforce more aggressive tariffs, but financial constraints limit the room for price increase as too steep increases at times produce deficits.

It is astounding that liberals in the West entirely turn a blind eye to the poor in India when insisting on compulsory mitigation by the latter, some even going so far as to advocating import tariffs to enforce mitigation by it.

One of his jobs was to enforce the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.

Lighthizer, meanwhile, wants China to accept that the U.S. will enforce the deal with unilateral tariffs and that it cannot retaliate — something Beijing is resisting.