Sentence examples for imposed on a large from inspiring English sources

Quantitative trade restrictions were first imposed on a large scale during and immediately after World War I.

Her evidence was sufficient to suggest to the ACCC that fines of A$10m $5.2mm) could be imposed on "a large company".

In his best-known play, Vyrozumění (1965; The Memorandum), an incomprehensible artificial language is imposed on a large bureaucratic enterprise, causing the breakdown of human relationships and their replacement by unscrupulous struggles for power.

Here I remain neutral on whether metaphysical necessity should be understood as full-blown necessity, or as a restriction imposed on a larger space (which would include metaphysically impossible and perhaps even logically impossible points: see Nolan 1997 for a view with this character).

These approaches perform pooled genotyping following a strong phenotypic selection imposed on an extremely large initial pool of recombinant progeny, for example, a drug concentration that kills 99% of progeny.

The higher order boundary conditions imposed on the plastic flow have a large impact on the predicted strengthening.

Hearings he called ultimately led to the cancellation of a $23 billion deal for aerial refueling tankers between Boeing and the Air Force as well as to the ethical investigations that resulted in the $615 million settlement, one of the largest ever imposed on a military contractor.

The exterior styling is an improvement, but the whole package looks mildly disproportionate, as if the sedan had been designed first and then imposed on a coupe with an extra-large derrière (in which the retracted hardtop could hide).

The Postcomm penalty is thought to be the largest imposed on a company by an industry regulator - topping the £2m penalty imposed by Ofgem on London Electricity this time last year but falling well short of the £17m price fixing fine levied by the Office of Fair Trading on catalogue retailer Argos in February.

Early this year, Koch agreed to pay a $30 million civil fine for violating the Clean Water Act; the fine was the largest ever imposed on a company for violating the law.

In 2005, the Titan Corporation, a leading military and intelligence contractor, paid $28.5 million — the largest penalty imposed on a company in the history of the 1977 law — to settle charges that it bribed the president of Benin.