Sentences with phrase «down imposition»

The expression may seem paradoxical: dictatorship means that there is a top - down imposition, while relativism implies the denial of absolutes and reacts against anything it considers as «top - down», such as truth, revelation, reality, morality.

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President Trump shows no sign of backing down from his threatened imposition of tariffs this week.

Low domestic demand for gas due to low economic growth: Even before the imposition of western sanctions, Russia's domestic economy had already started slowing down.

Examples mentioned included the company's programs for spotting and taking down counterfeit - product listings from its online shopping sites, initiatives to simplify the trademark - registration process, reductions in the time it takes to remove counterfeit products, closer partnerships with global law enforcement authorities and governments, and the imposition of a variety of penalties against offending merchants, among others.

Last year when I visited the Episcopal rector down the street and asked to borrow a cup of ash, I explained that First Church had never used the stuff before and that I was a bit apprehensive about how the imposition of ashes would be received, even if performed in the traditional way.

We heard about the new supermarket adjudicator appointed under the UK's mandatory supermarket code of conduct, and how she intended to exercise her powers, including by the imposition of «punitive fines» based on a percentage of turnover in the event of repeated abuses of market power down the supply chain by the supermarket majors.

Transfer activity in China has slowed down after clubs were forced to rein in their spending following the imposition of a 100 % government tax on foreign players in order to boost the development of domestic talent.

They and GPs are concerned that the Government's top - down, one - size - fits - all imposition of polyclinics in London and in each primary care trust across the country will reduce access to their GP services and undermine the GP - patient relationship, which is at the heart of the successful delivery of health care.

But rather than improving overall performance, the imposition of a top - down governance structure like Ford envisions is likely to exacerbate performance issues.

Some of this is motivated by objections to program contents, however, there is also dissatisfaction with the idea of a «top - down» imposition of standardized education policy without community input.

A new problem for people who have just started to use credit or who are «underbanked» as the socio - economic analysts like to say is the imposition of minimum credit scores for FHA mortgages (580 with a 3.5 percent down payment).

Tom highlighted the traditional top down approach with NGOs pushing their agenda on communities resulting in formation of marine protected area (MPA) and police state imposition do not tackle the root cause of coral reef degradation.

As a result of the imposition of certain regulatory conditions that made our client's acquisition of Oncor and conversion of its parent into a REIT financially unviable, our clients nonetheless received a significantly higher down - side recovery on their claims than was expected at the outset of the chapter 11 cases.

Attachment Therapy is the imposition of boundary violations — most often coercive restraint — and verbal abuse on a child, usually for hours at a time... Typically, the child is put in a lap hold with the arms pinned down, or alternatively an adult lies on top of a child lying prone on the floor.»

NAR and its coalition partners have also gathered the support of 44 U.S. Senators, who recently wrote to regulators expressing their intent on QRM and opposing the imposition of a sizable down payment; 282 House members signed a similar letter.