Sentence examples for imposed on the big from inspiring English sources

Centrica claims that small, independent energy companies are winning customers because they do not have the social and environmental obligations imposed on the big six utilities.

"Now if I tell them, 'Well, it turns out that we will actually have gotten TARP paid back and that we're going to make sure that a fee's imposed on the big banks so that this thing will cost the taxpayers not a dime,' that's helpful," Mr. Obama said.

Bank representatives are still wary about details that remain to be worked out, however, including how much of an extra capital cushion would be imposed on the biggest of the big institutions like Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup.

WHAT are the implications of the huge losses — 60 percent — that the Cypriot bailout is imposing on the biggest depositors of that country's two largest banks?

Taken together with recent record fines imposed on the world's biggest banks for rigging Libor, it seems clear that, like the Bourbons, we have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Since the whole series of connected concrete blocks are too heavy, big damage would be imposed on the tunnel performance in case of any failure.

The biggest costs have been imposed on the private sector, and these are borne by millions of consumers in the form of higher fees and longer waiting times.

It was the second-biggest of the penalties imposed on the five banks that have settled in the LIBOR scandal so far.

They have been asked to boost their capital reserves to 19%, about twice the level likely to be imposed on big banks in the world's financial capitals.

In proportion to Deloitte's total revenue in the country, it is the most severe fine Spain has ever imposed on a Big Five auditing firm, analysts said.

The Obama administration has not specified either the size or the type of levy it would impose on the nation's big banks.