Sentence examples similar to imposing a general from inspiring English sources

The government has imposed a general sales tax on retail trade in the face of protests.

The 1996 protocol imposed a general ban on dumping waste into the sea.

Israel imposed a "general closure" on the West Bank, barring any Palestinians from crossing the boundary with Israel.

But Margaret Thatcher became prime minister that year, and her administrations imposed a general moral retrenchment on television.

And at 6 p.m., the state imposed a general ban on that entire roadway for tractor-trailers because of expected whiteout conditions.

The Supreme Court itself had not imposed a general moratorium, instead granting individual stays of execution in cases that reached the court.

The title of the work derives from "Areopagus" ("Hill of Ares"), the name of the site from which the high court of Athens administered its jurisdiction and imposed a general censorship.

In the past the European Court of Justice has made it very clear that member states are not allowed to impose a general obligation on internet providers to monitor what users are doing.

One major point to note here is that existing EU law does not allow Member States to impose a general obligation on hosting service providers to monitor the information that users transmit or store.

Civil rights group Liberty is also crowdfunding a legal challenge to the various bulk powers authorized by the Act, arguing they are unlawful in light of a recent European Court of Justice ruling stating that EU Member States cannot impose a "general obligation to retain data on providers of electronic communications services".

Liberty's legal challenge to the IP Act follows a key decision by Europe's top court last month, when the ECJ ruled that EU Member States cannot impose a "general obligation to retain data on providers of electronic communications services".