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BO is dithering, but gun enthusiasts still fear he will unleash his liberal instincts and impose sweeping new controls.

A divided Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules on Wednesday that would impose sweeping disclosure requirements on large hedge funds and other private investment advisers, a first for an industry that has long eluded Washington oversight.

So too was the shocking decision to impose sweeping Nazi-like anti-Semitic laws in 1938.

Mr. Evans promised to examine whether to impose sweeping measures to protect the industry under existing trade law.

America's Founding Fathers, nursing fresh wounds suffered in the revolutionary war, decided to impose sweeping limitations on government power in the Bill of Rights.

The second is to impose sweeping Irish-style smoking bans; only 5% of the global population is now covered by such curbs.

Since 1976, Congress has imposed sweeping restrictions on the use of federal money for abortions.

The Security Council imposed sweeping sanctions against the country that would remain in effect until Iraq had fully disarmed, as verified by inspectors.

The league increased pressure on Syria on Nov. 27, when it imposed sweeping sanctions that included banning senior Syrian officials from traveling to other Arab countries, freezing Syrian assets in Arab countries and halting financial operations with major Syrian banks, including the central bank.

In Arizona, voters recoiling from anti-immigrant stridency recalled the State Senate's president, Russell Pearce, who was the main sponsor and public face of Arizona's immigration law, which imposed sweeping police-state powers to harass and expel people without papers.

Congress has imposed sweeping controls on bankers' pay; banks that receive public capital must already provide regular reports on how much they lend and to whom; complaints from within Citi suggest that managers are distracted and bewildered by demands from politicians and regulators about day-to-day operations.