Sentence examples for imposes standards on from inspiring English sources
The municipalities are now looking for private help as the Environmental Protection Agency imposes standards on water quality that municipalities cannot satisfy without outside financing and expertise.The French multinationals have again been especially successful here.
But the state cannot impose standards on writing as it does on those professions.
Having closed down a host of cowboy firms, the OFT is moving to impose standards on the rest.
But if you impose standards on goods at home, you must also impose them on imports or domestic industry will become uncompetitive and suffer.
And the United States has remained agnostic on Europe's push to get the World Trade Organization to consider imposing standards on investment and competition.
A second part of the effort involves the potentially explosive topic of identifying thousands of religious schools, which typically have not been regulated, and imposing standards on them.
Rather than impose standards on the players we allowed them to have control, and they imposed on themselves a more stringent set of standards than any of the coaches would have done.
Economists now expect an increase in international regulation, particularly because Washington has raised questions about the need to impose standards on large investment funds controlled by countries like Russia and China.
The United Nations and advocates of gun control have said that such fears are unfounded, and that there is no effort to impose standards on nations with traditions of civilian ownership, or to restrict hunting.
The Leveson inquiry issued its report on Thursday on press ethics in Britain, a mammoth document that offered politicians and press barons alike a framework to impose standards on newspapers, John F. Burns and Alan Cowell write.
It was a heady moment for health care policy wonks everywhere; they praised the decision as a bold attempt to improve quality and impose standards on a rapidly growing specialty.
