Sentence examples for imposing fire from inspiring English sources

Indeed, because of the political difficulty of imposing fire costs on ratepayers, Wynne sees PG&E selling the majority of its power generation and a large portion of its 125,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines, which could fetch about $18 billion in cash (fire losses would wash any tax liability).

Yet, like a child, he reacts strongly and with cowardly fear to the presence of an imposing fire engine, which motivates him to swerve to the sidewalk regardless of who might be in the way.

Walter T. Price IV, a Republican state representative from Amarillo, sponsored a bill to give smaller rural counties the option to impose fire codes.

Department officials had learned that he planned to criticize Gov. George E. Pataki for, among other things, recently vetoing a bill that would have imposed fire safety standards on cigarettes.

A22 NEW YORK/REGION B1-24 Cigarette-Fire Bill PAfter After Pataki Agrees to Sign The Legislature approved a bill making New York the first state to impose fire-safety standards on cigarettes.

The Legislature approved a bill today making New York the first state to impose fire-safety standards on cigarettes, striking a deal with Gov. George E. Pataki three weeks after he vetoed a similar bill.

The law also protects tourists -- who are usually unfamiliar with the rooms and buildings where they are sleeping -- by imposing stiffer fire safety and building codes on hotels.

Anger rose that the Kashmir militarized state — extremely effective in imposing curfews, firing at protesters, and filling prisons — could be so passive in the face of the flood.

The RFS has imposed total fire bans in the Greater Hunter region, the central ranges, the northern ranges, the upper and central west plains and the northern slopes.

In her plea agreement, Ms. Barton, 39, admitted to starting the wildfire in June when she burned a letter from her estranged husband while she was on patrol to impose a fire ban in Pike National Forest.

Such bifurcations have been observed in savannas, where the characteristic coexistence of trees and grasses in the landscape depends on climatic and edaphic constraints (primarily rainfall and soil hydrological characteristics), and their interactions with demographic constraints imposed by fire, herbivory and other factors that impact on woody recruitment and mortality (Sankaran et al., 2004).