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Singapore imposes tough penalties on residents whose homes are found to be mosquito breeding areas.

Few have actually done so, not least because America's 1940 Investment Company Act imposes tough restrictions on public firms that are principally an investment portfolio.

It imposes tough terms on future union contracts, a chief cause of Detroit's financial malaise, and insists that all existing contracts, even those recently ratified, can be reopened.

When the E.P.A. imposes tough standards on new plants but leaves old plants untouched, it distorts the economic considerations that companies face when deciding whether to construct new plants or invest in cleaner technologies.

The antispam bill passed unanimously by the Senate last week imposes tough penalties on people involved in the lowest forms of spam but it does not deal with the central questions Mr. Usborne and others raise about white-collar spam.

Anti-poverty groups are concerned about the rising power of the IMF, which they say still imposes tough economic conditions on countries that want to borrow, and promulgates the "Washington Consensus" of unfettered financial markets, free trade and privatisation.

The new law imposes tougher penalties on those trespassing on school premises with violent intent, and on football hooligans.

To review: Our bill imposes tougher standards on large, risky Wall Street firms.

They seem to have imposed tough conditions.

Congress, largely blaming welfare, imposed tough restrictions.

The Arab League needs to impose tough sanctions, now.