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Loury's alliance with the right was rooted in part in his deep aversion to the intellectual conformity he felt the left imposed on black intellectuals; the right offered not only prestige, resources and acceptance but also, it seemed, the freedom to speak his mind.

[Page A1.] Argentina Imposes Strict Controls Argentina's president, Eduardo Duhalde, left, imposed strict new controls on the foreign-exchange market.

My teenage skin reacted badly to nylon – still does, probably, though I haven't tested that for decades – and the hideous synthetic blouses my school imposed on me left me with two, equally devastating choices: festering acne on my back, or my mum's triumphant solution, a thick cotton BHS vest.

But the administration left in place -- and left largely undiscussed -- economic sanctions imposed on both India and Pakistan after they conducted nuclear tests two years ago.

Similarly, an export duty, or export tax, is a tax imposed on commodities leaving a customs area.

Price controls were imposed on the incumbents, leaving Abbey and Halifax without any means of competition.

In a briefing paper, the researchers also call for higher bands of council tax for the global super-rich, with the top level imposed on those who leave their homes vacant for more than three months a year.

The minister suggested that a €50 (£43.40) fee could be imposed on every vehicle entering or leaving Gibraltar.

Allows additional reporting and residency conditions to be imposed on immigrants granted limited leave to remain.

Allows conditions restricting studies to be imposed on those given limited leave to enter or remain in the UK.

Due to the economic sanctions imposed on Iran in the past decades, the country was left behind in the game.