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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reimpose .
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However, an even newer era began on Feb. 25, 2011, when the Obama administration reimposed economic sanctions on Libya.
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Russia's current leaders, who have reimposed a large dose of authoritarian control, speak nothing of the three men and little about the event that consumed them—a last-gasp Communist coup, 20 years ago this weekend, to salvage rigid Soviet rule.
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Environmentalists, in contrast, are hoping that the congressional limits on offshore drilling that expired two years ago are reimposed, or at least that the pace of development is slowed.
As offshore drilling moratorium nears an end, questions about what's next
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Her most controversial remark was her attack on both statism and super-statism: "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels."
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Another attempt at corporate intimidation was led by Sen. Charles Schumer who tried to steer through the Disclose Act which would have reimposed restrictions on corporate, but not union, political expenditures.
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Nixon, under increasing political pressure from the investigations of the Watergate break-in, reluctantly reimposed a freeze in June 1973.
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Thailand earlier this month reimposed a 15% withholding tax on foreigners 'gains from government-related bonds, and Korean officials have said they're willing to consider similar measures.
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Environmentalists, in contrast, are hoping that the congressional limits on offshore drilling that expired two years ago are reimposed, or at least that the pace of development is slowed.
As offshore drilling moratorium nears an end, questions about what's next
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Although a U.S. District Judge on April 25 ordered an immediate end to the NFL lockout, the threat still exists that the lockout could be reimposed.
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On July 12, U.S. authorities reimposed a deepwater drilling moratorium, which has been vehemently opposed by the oil industry since it was first imposed in May but which the government says is necessary to ensure safe drilling practices.
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