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GENEVA — In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country's reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, in a referendum drawn up by the far right and opposed by the government.

The House voted overwhelmingly to impose a 90% tax on such bonuses.The media responded to the storm of outrage by producing a stream of articles on American populism the political disposition that damns established institutions, from Wall Street to Washington, and tries to return power to "the people".

Financial institutions outside the United States also say that the law's costs will be imposed overwhelmingly on them, giving a competitive advantage to United States rivals.

And even if behavioural change could cure a person's poverty, the scientific evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that imposing shame is ineffective at encouraging such change.

The U.S. House Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation imposing sharply higher fines on television and radio broadcasters who violate indecency limits.

Published in March last year, the report found that the court system's practices had imposed "unnecessary harm, overwhelmingly on African-American individuals, and run counter to public safety".

Affordable housing: Organized labor and tenant groups won a victory when Angelenos overwhelmingly approved Measure JJJ, a ballot initiative that imposed hiring and affordable housing requirements on developments that get exemptions from key city planning rules.

The original court order for Mark Twain Intermediate School was imposed when the region, District 21, was overwhelmingly white.

The overwhelmingly black neighborhood remained on edge after the city imposed a night curfew, fearing further unrest after arrests and gunfire on Sunday evening.

It was a sentiment often heard a day after Greeks overwhelmingly rejected an international bailout plan that would have imposed drastic new austerity measures on a nation where residents are plainly fed up with what many view as cutbacks imposed by a shadowy economic elite.

Parliament voted overwhelmingly to extend for three months a state of emergency imposed in November to battle a Maoist rebellion that has spread to much of the nation.