Sentence examples for imposing a surcharge from inspiring English sources

Any losses paid by the government under $10 billion would be recouped by imposing a surcharge of up to 3percentt on premiums paid by businesses.

"I certainly sympathize with physicians about increasing medical malpractice costs, but imposing a surcharge may be severely problematic, especially from a legal standpoint," Mr. Blumenthal said.

Florida lawmakers are now mulling a fee for each cow or pig slaughtered in the state, and Kentucky officials are considering imposing a surcharge for downloading a ring tone on a cellphone.

Retailers could start imposing a surcharge for payments made by credit cards as soon as December, if the court grants preliminary approval of the settlement, said K. Craig Wildfang, a lawyer with Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi who represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Also today, the State Senate gave final passage to a $1.9 billion aid package for New York City that allows the city to address its fiscal crisis by increasing its sales tax and imposing a surcharge on residents with high incomes.

However, all is not lost, as imposing a surcharge for using credit cards is going to require some creative thinking.

Avis's response was to impose a surcharge on anyone 18 to 21 years old.

They would like to impose a surcharge for purchases made specifically with those cards — but the settlement requires retailers to impose surcharges on all cards uniformly.

For example, why not impose a surcharge on people who treat the subways as if they were freight trains?

Iraq had submitted low prices for crudes so that it could impose a surcharge of 50 cents a barrel on customers outside the UN oil-for-food programme.

And he would impose a surcharge on Medicare premiums for new beneficiaries who buy the most generous private insurance policies to supplement Medicare.