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The EU can also impose periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of average daily sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

People who work especially hard to eliminate normal fluctuations may sometimes impose restrictions on themselves that make everyday life less enjoyable or make certain activities feel harder to pursue safely.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

This is why, since 1894, the Office of the Pardon Attorney has tried to impose some guidelines on the process and decide which cases should be eligible for clemency at all.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

However, they also allow for a disciplinary commission panel to impose a penalty "as it shall think fit".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

I hurried down the street to the bookseller one wintry afternoon, bought a whole new set of ledgers, and started in to impose method on madness.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

What slows, how it slows and who imposes the limit will determine who ultimately pays.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

I appreciated the restraint that the cast imposes on itself without spoiling the fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

To one, time imposes order on life; to the other, time is a construct disguising a deeper chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

"Banksy's vandalism should be stopped and he should foot the bill for the costs he imposes on others."

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Random for most practical purposes, they are actually generated by a deterministic formula which imposes sufficient order on the numbers as to render them useless for some applications.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Some of that amount – about $700 million – had not yet been officially imposed by courts because the clemency came through so quickly.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The gut-busting workouts imposed by Sumrall and Whitt centered on four lifts: power clean, bench, squat and dead lift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was initially imposed following a riot during the 1980 Scottish Cup final between Rangers and Celtic at Hampden.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Boycotts imposed by several Canadian provinces since last March have “erased” roughly $360 million in revenue that the U.S. wine industry would have otherwise earned, according to the report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

And even if you disregard that part of it, there was strong evidence that the death penalty should not be imposed because of Herbert's trauma, military service, and childhood difficulties.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“It was a way for people to make things outside of the institutional parameters that the Soviet Union was imposing on people, and distribute it themselves too, often in secret.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Package-delivery costs are up too, with United Parcel Service and FedEx both imposing higher fuel surcharges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

On the final day of the authoritarian Chinese leader's trip, Trump and his wife Melania brought Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan to the imposing National Archives building.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Kimi Antonelli goes into round 15 of the season with an imposing 81-point lead in the drivers' championship over Mercedes team-mate George Russell.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The imposing structure of the Cairo courthouse and the even more imposing customs house looked like enormous freshly baked cookies in the syrupy gold of the light at the end of the day.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman