Mark Patterson, a Goldman Sachs lobbyist, was hired as the chief of staff at Treasury, even though Obama had supposedly imposed a ban on hiring lobbyists.
The French, after all, rather like using constraints supposedly imposed by the European Commission as a means of carrying out unpopular domestic reform.It may be a coincidence that Messrs Schröder and Raffarin, leading centre-left and centre-right governments respectively, are adopting a similar approach to reviving their economy.
He hints that the Palestinian venture may prolong sanctions against fund-raising by Sinn Fein in America, supposedly imposed because the party has not yet agreed to support policing in Northern Ireland.Despite its pique, the Bush administration, like the British government, thinks the IRA is de-fanged and Sinn Fein well on the road to political virtue.
They lost their grip with one disappointing draw after the next at the supposedly imposing Azteca Stadium, without scoring goals.
Indonesia has laws designed to stop the burning of forest land, and supposedly imposes draconian penalties for damaging the environment.
The constitution would supposedly impose more hard-line Islamist rules on the country, something opponents claim would be divisive and unrepresentative of the country as a whole. .
The atmosphere in Europe following the attacks in Paris of January 2015, only indirectly connected with Isis, also recalled that of a decade earlier, with US commentators making the same hysterical claims of "no-go zones" in European cities where Islamic law had supposedly been imposed.
His fate had been considered a litmus test for Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who imposed a supposedly more reformist chum as Gazprom's new boss.See article: Miller risingChatu Mongol Sonakul was sacked as governor of Thailand's central bank after refusing to raise interest rates.
These are the limits on "soft money," unlimited contributions to the parties for supposedly non-electoral activities, imposed in the wake of scandals related to both how the money was raised and how it was spent.
The regulator, supposedly independent, could impose fines of up to one million pounds, about $1.6 million.
Unlike many of his followers today, Holmes was sufficiently skeptical of his own exclusive ability to discern the truth that he insisted that judges should not use their undemocratic power to impose supposedly objective (but actually, vigorously contested) principles of right and wrong on a deeply divided nation.
