Sentence examples for imposing the deadline from inspiring English sources

Later that month, at a National Security Council Principals Committee meeting, the White House presented Mr. Carter with a memo imposing the deadline.

Still, after months in which requests by the panel have gone unanswered, Mr. Rockefeller said in a telephone interview that he was "satisfied that we have caught the attention" of Bush administration officials by imposing the deadline, which passed at noon on Friday.

Congress imposed the deadline after the 2001 attacks.

David Trimble, the Unionist Party leader and the province's first minister, imposed the deadline after pressure from hard-line constituents over the I.R.A.'s failure to disarm in accordance with the 1998 peace accord.

Democrats, who had requested hand recounts in four counties, reacted with fury, challenging her decision in state court.A state court judge ruled that Ms Harris was within her rights to impose the deadline, but that she could only reject any county recounts that came in after the deadline if she had good, "nonarbitrary" reasons to do so, which seems like an invitation to further litigation.

The administration imposed the deadlines that it is now having trouble meeting.

But this was not enough to save the system, she says, because program managers did not succeed in imposing the short deadlines of 18 to 24 months that the department now requires for similar projects.

Last week, the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, expressed growing impatience with Microsoft when she imposed the latest deadline.

Congress imposed the filing deadline as part of a 1996 overhaul of immigration law, intending it as a measure to combat fraudulent claims.

Elfyn Llwyd, the leader of Plaid Cymru's Westminster group, who is pushing for the debate, said he could not understand why the government had imposed the February deadline.

Republican state legislators also filed a brief with the Florida court urging it to drop its earlier ruling and impose the original deadlines for the manual counts.