31.   Under the act, regulators can impose fishing quotas, land-use restrictions and other measures to protect listed species.

32.   Western has maintained that nothing regulators may impose will keep it from paying its projected dividend, and analysts have generally supported that claim.

33.   Another way is for the regulator to impose stricter discipline on banks by increasing the frequency and thoroughness of bank examinations.

34.   Even after the company missed a government-imposed deadline in September, regulators imposed no fine.

35.   He said there were no plans to cut staff and the Hong Kong regulators had imposed no trading restrictions on the group.

36.   In a heat wave in June, state regulators imposed rolling blackouts in northern California, partly because of the demands of the plugged-in New Economy.

37.   Regulators have imposed minimum prices in some industries to prevent producers from bankrupting each other with price-cutting wars.

38.   U.S. regulators imposed two conditions, said Roche.

39.   Investors said they feared tough penalties that could be imposed by regulators would drive Nomura into the red.