Sentence examples for impose fiscal from inspiring English sources

A move to impose fiscal austerity was rejected, in 1989, with a mass revolt and countrywide looting a paroxysm known as the Caracazo which was put down by the Army at a cost of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives.

Congress passed the Budget Control Act last year to try to impose fiscal discipline on a federal government that has been running trillion-dollar deficits and has amassed a $15.8 trillion debt.

Stephen Gillers, vice dean and a law professor at New York University, said yesterday that courts were reluctant to impose fiscal decisions on government unless there was "smoking-gun evidence of discrimination or conscious violation of civil rights".

Rehn is drawing up plans to dispatch scores of EU officials to Athens to impose fiscal rectitude on Greece whose own deficit this year threatens to be 6.7% rather than the planned 5.4% as recession deepens.

A plan voted this month by leaders in Brussels to impose fiscal discipline by requiring every member of the euro zone to meet strict budget targets is pushing Spain and Portugal, in particular, back to the center of worries even as fears of an unruly Greek bankruptcy fade.

The EU, prompted by Germany, in 1997 signed a "stability and growth pact" to impose fiscal discipline on member countries and to avoid crises.

"The conditions we impose today are forward-looking and fair," Mr. Kennard said.

Price controls were imposed this week.

The rule was imposed March 29.

The highest fine imposed last year was £850.

It upheld the five-year jail sentence imposed last March.