Sentence examples for imposing curbs from inspiring English sources

China, its cities choked in smog, is following Europe in imposing curbs on emissions of noxious nitrogen oxides and fine soot particles.

Yet that very obstinacy has fomented a backlash in the states.Massachusetts led the way by imposing curbs on CO2 emissions from power plants.

The European Union may consider imposing curbs on investment to and from Switzerland if the Swiss government refuses to loosen its banking secrecy laws, Frits Bolkestein, the financial services commissioner of the union, said.

[C3.] Pressure to Relax Secrecy Laws The European Union may consider imposing curbs on investment to and from Switzerland if the Swiss government refuses to loosen its banking secrecy laws, the financial services commissioner of the union said.

The government, which regards a figure closer to £29bn as a truer reflection of its new injection of funds, tried to temper its announcement by imposing curbs on bonuses at the banks.

Vikram Akula, SKS's founder, says that although 17 of the 57 women who killed themselves were SKS clients, none was in default so there was "no scope for putting any pressure".Despite this, the state government passed an executive order on October 15th imposing curbs on MFIs.

Desperate for hard currency, the government imposed curbs on imports and foreign-exchange transactions.

As the current-account surplus diminishes, the government has imposed curbs on imports and stricter capital controls.

Mr. Spitzer created a commission to study disparities in sentencing, while he imposed curbs on temporary release programs from prison.

The law also imposes curbs on proprietary trading and the derivatives business, restrictions that level the playing field for small lenders competing against giant competitors.

But at the same time the government wants to impose curbs on anything resembling speech that might conceivably promote an ill-defined Islamic "radicalisation".