Sentence examples for imposing rules to from inspiring English sources

The E.P.A. is behind schedule in imposing rules to ratchet down domestic production, and smuggling is rarely detected.

Both of New Jersey's senators, Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, introduced legislation on Monday that would bar the F.A.A. from imposing rules to limit flights at Kennedy unless it also limited flights at Newark.

That truce fell apart, on the eve of parliamentary elections, after the military council spelled out for the first time its intention to preserve a decisive role for itself in Egyptian politics far into the future, elevating itself above civilian control and imposing rules to protect individual and minority rights.

The lengthy document (pdf) submitted as part of the planning process for the bridge, which will be part-financed by at least £40m of public money, said the trust behind the scheme hoped to "maximise the opportunity provided by the status of the bridge as private land" by imposing rules to "establish expectations for behaviour and conduct".

Gaus, for example, appeals to Rousseau's statement that the fundamental problem to which the social contract is meant to be the solution is to find a way of imposing rules to regulate our common life "in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before" (Gaus 2011, 1. Also see Rawls 1996, 219).

If it did, Congress would be justified in imposing rules to prevent it, as it has since Teddy Roosevelt was president.

By contrast, China imposed rules to keep home prices there from rising too fast.

This concern has fueled calls for governments to impose rules to enforce "network neutrality," or equal priority to all Internet traffic, regardless of the content.

They could also seek to impose rules to limit the use of exclusionary contracts in oligopolistic industries like technology and telecommunications to encourage more competition.

They have limited trawling, put caps on FAD numbers and imposed rules to limit ''bycatch,'' the unwanted species caught in the hunt for prized fish.

Following a huge rise in birth defects and miscarriages the government moved over 800 families to new homes.Most Western governments have since imposed rules to minimise pollution from landfills and incinerators and to prevent leaks of toxic waste.