Sentence examples for imposed on western from inspiring English sources

Costa, who campaigned on a promise of easing some of the painful reforms imposed on western Europe's poorest country, was quick to concede defeat but ruled out stepping down as party leader.

But it was the regulation imposed on Western economies (even in the United States) by states and trades unions in the first half of the 20th century, that saved the world from Bolshevik revolution and Communism, not Mrs Thatcher or Ronald Reagan.

When Kennan complained forcefully about the isolation the Russians were imposing on western diplomats, he was unceremoniously thrown out.

So far Russia has excluded spirits from a ban it has imposed on some Western imports in response to sanctions but that could easily change.

The chief reason why eastern Germany, unlike neighbouring Poland, remains a basket-case, is that unification in 1990 imposed on it western Germany's generous welfare system and highly regulated labour market.

BAGHDAD — A British contractor who admitted to murdering two other foreign contractors was sentenced by an Iraqi court on Monday to 20 years in prison, the first sentence imposed on a Westerner here since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.

Sanctions, such as those imposed on Iran and Russia by Western states, were impinging on business, he added, as was a resurgence of protectionism.

"We are deeply embarrassed by the confused, shortsighted 'vision' that the Austrian government hysterically chose to impose on the western Balkans".

We are deeply embarrassed by the confused, shortsighted "vision" that the Austrian government hysterically chose to impose on the western Balkans (her former "crown colonies"?).

The government blamed the fall on Western sanctions imposed on Iran because of its nuclear plans, but the government's own economic and financial mismanagement is to blame.

Notice that in his most recent audiotape he spoke of "our sons in Iraq"; meaning not Saddam and his Tikriti henchmen, whose secular Baathist regime has long been on his hit-list, but the faithful millions who live inside the artificial borders imposed on Mesopotamia by the western powers when they summoned Iraq into being.