Yet deficiencies created by weak and uncoordinated enforcement, disjointed licensing regimes, and challenges in maintaining the relevance of sanctions once imposed means that the potential effectiveness of EU-imposed sanctions is undercut.
Mr. Santorum talked bluntly about overhauling Social Security and renewed his call for imposing means testing on beneficiaries.
Samuel W. Lewis, who was ambassador to Israel from 1977 to 1985, said the stringency of security being imposed means that "either you don't do your job or you are breaking some regulation".
The Ukrainians reject Russian insistence that they use a Russian pilot, saying it is not required by a 2003 agreement on sharing the waterway, and is a recently imposed means of controlling Ukrainian access.
Power can also be endowed by management in the form of managerial authority, and at least a part of a hierarchy of pay within an organization is likely to be an imposed means of distinguishing and upholding the strata of the organization's internal power structure.
The fact that tariffs were actually imposed means the negotiation went wrong.
The short compliance deadlines EPA has imposed means that utilities must start today the costly and time consuming process of developing, coordinating, siting, permitting and constructing significant new generation resources, new transmission lines, and new or expanded gas pipelines and storage project, given the long lead times need to place these infrastructure projects into service.
That word imposed means driven, dictated, pushed, pulled.
Obama has taken more of an agency view of human rights, emphasizing the rights of free expression, particularly the right of protest, and recognizing that human rights reform can only come from below and not through imposed means.
