Sentence examples for since the imposition from inspiring English sources

Consumer spending, however, has slowed considerably since the imposition of tighter rules on late credit card payments.

Whites, aware of their diminished power, demanded the very protections that they had denied blacks since the imposition of the segregationist apartheid government in 1948.

In all, about 2,000 people have been rounded up since the imposition of emergency rule on Saturday night, lawyers and legal and political analysts said.

Despite well-documented hardships endured since the imposition of the blockade, Gazans are now more likely to rate economic conditions as positive than before it took effect.

They also felt that the numbers no longer made sense because the Greek economy had deteriorated further since the imposition of capital controls.

And since the imposition of the embargo in 1962, and especially with the collapse in 1991 of the Soviet Union, its major economic patron, Cuba's economy has stagnated.

Since the early 1980s, the imposition of a system known as "immersion," with Catalan as the only vehicular language in state schools, has guaranteed everyone educated in the past 30 years has a command of it.

If Western sanctions in the last few years helped to weaken South Africa, prompting it to rethink its policies and release Nelson Mandela after more than 27 years of imprisonment, then Mr. Bush does not have credit coming, since he opposed the imposition of sanctions.

He suggests, for instance, that Mr Bush "may be the most protectionist president" since Herbert Hoover, thanks to the imposition of temporary steel tariffs in 2002 and the increase in farm subsidies.

Pipeline operators have little incentive to add capacity since the 1992 imposition of price caps, which replaced a regime that let companies charge rates that earned them an average return on capital of 12% to 14%.

--Tibet: TraveLhasaLhasa remains off-limits to foreigners since the March 8 imposition of martial law.