On March 4, 2008, the OSCE issued a press release citing the ban on independent news coverage and censorship temporarily imposed by Armenian authorities as contrary to OSCE commitments.

Safeguards are actions temporarily imposed on imports expected or likely to cause serious damage to a domestic industry competing with the imported goods.

Microsoft's investment in Apple has temporarily imposed a truce in the hostilities between those two companies.

Order was temporarily imposed on this chaos by the Emperor Theodore.

British Columbia officials temporarily imposed infection control and quarantine measures that had contained the Toronto outbreak.

In March 1995, an ABC study of the taxpayer costs for Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, assessed bids for the same project both before and after a PLA was temporarily imposed in 1995.

Such an action is not considered a punishment and can be imposed either temporarily or permanently, even without indictments or convictions in criminal cases.

An example of a typical industrial policy is import-substitution-industrialization (ISI), where trade barriers are temporarily imposed on some key sectors, such as manufacturing.

But these suspensions were imposed only temporarily, for periods of only three weeks to six months.

Such an action is not considered punishment and can be imposed either temporarily or permanently.