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Impose in sentence

1132 examples of Impose in a sentence

And I'm sorry if I impose some clarity, some understanding on you.
Each of these words is a word that helps us impose upon other people in our social networks.
Give judges a list of mandatory sentences to impose for crimes, so that you don't need to rely on judges using their judgment.
Now, these are things about general culture, but I'm also very much interested in political culture and whether liberty and democracy is appreciated, or whether there's an authoritarian political culture in which the state is supposed to impose things on the citizens.
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down.
It was very hard, you know, to impose my authority.
Because these different languages impose a barrier, as we've just seen, to the transfer of goods and ideas and technologies and wisdom.
And they impose a barrier to cooperation.
Fish development meant imposing on countries that had already 100,000 fishers to impose on them industrial fishing.
But also on the labels that we impose on ourselves and each other.
It is a contest of who is the toughest on migrants, the most willing to impose travel bans and the most eager to propose projects in building walls.
How do you impose human intuition on data at this scale?
So I'm an academic at MIT, and I'm a mechanical engineer, so I can do things like look at the type of terrain you want to travel on, and figure out how much resistance it should impose, look at the parts we have available and mix and match them to figure out what sort of gear trains we can use, and then look at the power and force you can get out of your upper body to analyze how fast you should be able to go in this chair as you put your arms up and down the levers.
Reinventing the government by reinventing politics itself is the answer, and not reinventing people based on a ready-made formula that the developed world often tries in vain to impose to people like us.
And it takes a school board member who is going to lobby for you and say, "Know, the district is trying to impose this, but you have the freedom to do otherwise."
And someone wrote an article saying, "Don't impose on us the dirty work of happiness."
Not to have to impose tradeoffs to my wife.
And why I try not to impose tradeoffs to my wife is precisely because I love my wife.
What I'm saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that change is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people, and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble.
My generation has been incredibly good at using new networks and technologies to organize protests, protests that were able to successfully impose agendas, roll back extremely pernicious legislation, and even overthrow authoritarian governments.
Now, it turns out that there's something fundamental about antibiotics which makes it different from other drugs, which is that if I misuse antibiotics or I use antibiotics, not only am I affected but others are affected as well, in the same way as if I choose to drive to work or take a plane to go somewhere, that the costs I impose on others through global climate change go everywhere, and I don't necessarily take these costs into consideration.
This is what economists might call a problem of the commons, and the problem of the commons is exactly what we face in the case of antibiotics as well: that we don't consider — and we, including individuals, patients, hospitals, entire health systems — do not consider the costs that they impose on others by the way antibiotics are actually used.
Not only that, but I will impose myself a time limit of one second, something that would look like this.
I was all set to do it and I was thinking, "Aw man," I was just going to impose upon the powers that be, and measure the speed of light.
And in a way, it's all thanks to him, because he challenged known facts, and with a sweep of his hand, got rid of the theoretical beliefs and all the mental limits that we like to impose on ourselves.
Incidentally, our king used this constitution to impose democracy on us.
We impose house style.
It has no librarian to impose order.
Well, the United Nations does not impose anything on anybody.
Neither are recognizing a fundamental truth of the G-Zero, which is that even though the US is not in decline, it is getting objectively harder for the Americans to impose their will, even have great influence, on the global order.
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