1.   Supporters claim the policy lies at the heart of their efforts to impose financial hardships on the Castro regime.

2.   The outbreak will impose further hardships on an industry badly hit by BSE in cattle and plummeting livestock prices.

3.   Banning new investment should not impose a hardship on the American business community.

4.   But City Council members insisted Thursday that the average increases would impose a hardship on many elderly tenants.

5.   So the owners are not unilaterally imposing some hardship on the players and hurting the players.

6.   The critics say that eliminating the entire grant would impose needless hardships on such families.

7.   The curbs have imposed substantial hardships on the Iraqi people.

8.   The opposition contends that the decisions to adopt the U.S. dollar and to restructure the economy impose excessive hardship on the poor.

9.   The weather and conditions in the region also imposed hardships on Ghobadi and his production.