Sentence examples for impose a means from inspiring English sources

The party would, however, impose a means test on the annual "winter fuel" payment that currently goes to all pensioners.

If that doesn't warrant an ethics investigation, what does?" The bill now before Congress would impose a means test on debtors, requiring many to pay back part of their unsecured debts, like credit card bills, if they filed for bankruptcy.

The plan would raise the age when people become eligible for Medicare from 65 to 67, and would impose a means test on the program, so that anybody who makes $80,000 a year or more ($160,000 for couples) would have their Medicare benefit cut in half.

The law, part of an effort to cut expenses, imposes a means test on some adoptive parents and requires parents to reapply each year for subsidies they had received automatically.

It would impose a rigid means test for determining which petitioners could afford to repay creditors, thereby stripping judges of discretion to weigh individual cases.

FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said it was "absolutely ludicrous that a government can impose a scheme which means that firefighters will have to ride engines and rescue people from fires up to the age of 60".

States would be given the capacity "to periodically vary the surcharge they impose as a means of injecting further competition into the federation", the audit report said.

Similarly, the Court of Appeals in Verdugo reasoned that international abductions violate the "purpose" of the Treaty, stating that "[t]he requirements extradition treaties impose constitute a means of safeguarding the sovereignty of the signatory nations, as well as ensuring the fair treatment of individuals". 939 F.2d, at 1350.

Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: "It is absolutely ludicrous that a government can impose a scheme [that] means that firefighters will have to ride engines and [perform rescues] until they are 60.

The decision of the whips to impose a three line whip means that David Burrowes, aide to Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin and a leading member of the no camp, is expected to abstain in the "programme motion" vote.

But Mr Erdogan stressed to Saudi officials that the lack of Western action in Syria, especially the failure to impose a "no-fly zone", meant that regional powers now needed to come together and take the lead to help the opposition.