Norman Ornstein, of the American Enterprise Institute, co-author of "The Broken Branch," has written that senators and congressmen no longer share enough time together, no longer have friendships across party lines, and that they should be made to spend more time on the job in Washington, with rules enforcing periods free of fundraising.
Enforced periods of no email or internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful.
Many "fallen women" were sent to Magdalene Laundries where they were punished by hard physical work as well as long, enforced periods of silence and prayer.
Polar voyages, which anticipated enforced periods of relative inactivity during the winter, had larger libraries than many ships; Franklin's Erebus and Terror had 3000 volumes between them.
RUTIs can also disrupt other areas of a woman's life with many reports of enforced periods off work with financial and social consequences: ' The UTIs have taken a huge toll on my sex-life (and therefore my relationship), work, social life and finances (Abby)'.
There's skepticism of whether the federal government will enforce, period, and rightly so.
Prison reading and writing have always been a route to rehabilitation; like the enforced period of study that helped turn the provisional IRA towards the peace process.
Perhaps part of its therapeutic effect is this enforced period of complete immobility, or the flood of relief when you eventually stop waterboarding your eyes with photons.
Some, such as New Zealand captain Richie McCaw and Mils Muliaina, are already experiencing an enforced period on the sidelines because of injuries, though nothing serious enough to keep them out of the World Cup.
Like a patient awakened from an enforced period of suspended animation, South Korea's body politic has been sharply brought back to life.
Following a suitable length of discussion time, and an enforced period to generate, agree upon, and write down group definitions of characteristics, each group is then split, and this section is repeated two times more (for taxonomic levels D and E of Fig. 1a), leading to 16 pairs of students (if the initial class size was 32).
