That means, for example, a military base would have to maintain a minimum force of security personnel.
The Base Force was described as the minimum force structure to enable the United States to address its continuing global security interests and to project the aura of a global superpower.
Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island said his conference remains concerned that raising the minimum wage will force layoffs and hamper New York's slow economic recovery.
There has already been a review of wildlife crime policing in Scotland which recommended the appointment of a full-time wildlife coordinator within each police force area and minimum standards of investigation.
Under 5% of the US wage earners make the minimum wage or less, which means that since wage earners only represent a bit over half the total work force (the rest are paid a fixed salary), those who earn the minimum wage make up less than 3% of the total work force.
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"We've had discussions about what we could do to deal with that, to ensure that no foreign worker should take a job at less than minimum wage and be exploited and force down people's wages".
The Conservatives want mechanisms to force markets to provide a minimum level of gas storage and a minimum quantity of spare capacity in electricity generation.
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The navy insists that it is already at or near the minimum needed to be a coherent maritime force (it already has less than a tenth of the number of ships it boasted in 1945).
It included the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing, due to come into force next year, which is currently being challenged in the courts.
But if they have credible information of some risk to the public, officers can use powers of arrest and force - providing they use the minimum necessary in the circumstances.
Mr Moore told the BBC News Channel the Border Force aimed to keep disruption to a minimum but "would not compromise on the safety and security of the UK".
And since the new regulations force banks to use any payment over the minimum to reduce higher-interest debt, raising minimum payments gives them the flexibility to apply more of the payment to lower-interest debt.
Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner has said new constables in his force will get more than the government-set minimum starting salary.
To the present accord's emphasis on regulation are added enhanced roles for the market, and for supervisors, who will, for example, be able to force some banks to hold more than the regulatory minimum capital.
One bill he plans to present then would force the public-sector transportation monopolies to guarantee a minimum of service during their frequent strikes.
They put the price of labor-force participation so high with regulations, social charges, minimum wages and so forth that businesses are reluctant to take on young, untrained workers.
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And if ministers want to do what investors and creditors apparently want them to do, which is to force a serious recapitalisation of big French banks, the minimum capital threshold would have to be set high, at 8%.
The police force keeps crime, and thus insurance rates, to a minimum.
The force said the closures would allow officer numbers to remain above a minimum of 761 for the coming year.
The minimum wage directly affects only a very small percentage of the total full-time work force (1.5 out of 102 million), though lots of part-time workers too.
Some welcome good news for taxpayers: Before leaving town this week, Congress passed a bill suspending 2009 rules that force older individual retirement account owners and those who have inherited IRAs to take minimum annual withdrawals from these now-shrunken accounts.
In addition to emphasizing the relevance of such business activity to federal procurement decisions, this process might, at minimum, urge the establishment of global security risk management programs, much like export controls already in force.
While the risk of stagflation is still a long-term phenomenon, inelastic demand curves for food and energy products could force market participants to feel the sting of rising headline inflation and thus cut back to minimum spending.
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