Sentence examples for pushing to impose from inspiring English sources

Today, he is emerging as one of the nation's archreformers, pushing to impose some of the most stringent new financial regulations in history.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a secondary regulator, was pushing to impose tighter regulation, but the primary regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, was successfully resisting allowing the F.D.I.C. to even look at the bank's loan files.

On foreign policy, the House is expected to approve new sanctions on North Korea next week, while others are pushing to impose fresh penalties on Russia for meddling in the U.S. election.

In pushing to impose sanctions against Moscow (and possibly arm the Ukrainians), U.S. policymakers seem to have given little thought to the long-term geopolitical impact of this rift on relations with China.

Many of the rules those agencies have adopted or are now pushing to impose — including a requirement that farmers refrigerate eggs and kill rodents to combat salmonella contamination on eggshells, which sickens 79,000 people a year — languished during previous administrations.

Here in Germany, copyright societies representing the entertainment and publishing industries are pushing to impose flat fees on all the components in a home computer that can be used in copying, the devices that write or "burn" music onto blank CD's, computer hard-disk drives, image scanners and printers.

Republicans have also pushed to impose tough restrictions on voter registration, which Democrats and Latino groups attacked as a way to discourage Hispanics, among others, from voting.

But after Mr. Snowden's leaks in 2013, a bipartisan coalition of civil-liberties-minded lawmakers pushed to impose far more sweeping warrant requirements on queries for Americans' information that was swept in by government surveillance.

Two years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission rightly pushed to impose a fiduciary duty on brokers, but the effort has been stalled by financial lobbyists and their Congressional allies, who contend, against all evidence, that more research is needed to justify a fiduciary-duty rule.

"Being able to say that they pushed to impose stricter work requirements, etc., is itself an important end for many in the House GOP".

They have pushed to impose surcharges on customers who use net metering, saying such fees represent the cost of maintaining the grid.