On the one hand, the majority of them has focused on imposing some sort of spatial constraints over a local neighborhood, and requires a tunable parameter to weigh the importance of these constraints relative to the data-driven objective function.
"Adding riders against Planned Parenthood and gutting the environmental laws indicate that the Tea Party is focused on imposing a right-wing ideological agenda on the country and using the budget as a vehicle".
"The whole anti-corruption movement was so much focused on imposing on the elite of developing countries a commitment to fight corruption and giving them the tools and systems to fight it", says Mr Eigen.
As for the Brady Act, which mainly focused on imposing background checks and waiting periods, here's a summary of a 2000 Duke University study on its effectiveness: If these handgun denials were successful in preventing violence-prone people from arming themselves, we would expect to see a larger reduction in gun crimes committed in the 32 Brady states compared with the non-Brady states.
To much of the world, the attack on the mall, in which Islamist radicals killed more than 60 men, women and children, underscored the growing international threat of the Shabab, a group that once seemed more focused on imposing Islamic law in Somalia than with staging major attacks across international boundaries.
Almost all these efforts have focused on imposing spatial constraints into the clustering algorithm[12 14, 25 29].
These measures should focus not on imposing solutions, but on the creation of economic, social spaces within which local people can identify, develop and employ the resources necessary to build a peaceful, prosperous and just society.
"We're only six months into the year, and I think it's unusual to have this much focus and attention on imposing new rules and restrictions on valid access," said Kristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers Committeee for Civil Rights Under Law.
For now, that struggle is focused on bills imposing new restrictions on abortion, which suddenly have a chance in a Republican-controlled Senate, and on the confirmation of conservative nominees to the lower courts.
