Sentence examples for levying charges from inspiring English sources

The conference was ostensibly about updating and harmonising international telecommunications protocols (for example, mobile roaming rates) but some countries, including quite a few authoritarian regimes, and phone companies sought to use it as a vehicle for controlling internet content and levying charges on those who create and provide it.

While negative interest rates are normally aimed at institutional investors, in the long term they can have a detrimental effect on savers, if investors decide to recoup the costs of the rate by levying charges on consumers.

Mistakenly, French investigators considered the UK Company unaffiliated with Khalifa Airways, levying charges against it and the French manufacturer.

In July, the Department of Justice announced its largest ever RICO indictment on the island, levying charges against 105 residents it said were part of a gang that sold heroin, crack, and cocaine out of public housing projects.

Obtaining public support is crucial because: 1) It may sway state representatives to support reform; 2) Ballot initiatives, voted on by the public, have been a powerful tool for criminal justice policy-making; and 3) Prosecutors, who have tremendous discretion in levying charges, are typically elected locally by the public.

These attacks have become particularly shrill since the financial collapse, with many levying charges that the CRA was to blame for the crisis because it allegedly forced banks to make risky loans to risky borrowers from low- and moderate-income communities.

It can only levy charges through the control of the photographic or digital images of items.

An ultra-low emission zone in central London from 2020 will levy charges on all but the cleanest vehicles.

Mr. Spitzer, now the governor of New York, was among the first to levy charges against A.I.G. of improper accounting.

By 1863 the prosperity of the country permitted redemption of the Netherlands' right to levy charges on ships entering the Schelde estuary, a right enacted in 1839.

HSBC have a relatively small portion of their assets in the UK but were paying £1 billion a year in levy charges.