Example collocations logo

Imposed in sentence

1111 examples of Imposed in a sentence

A subprime-mortgage problem that was initially estimated to imply losses of a few hundred billion dollars imposed far higher costs on the entire world.
A Partnership in PerilThe Iraq war divided "old" and "new" Europe and imposed unprecedented strains on the relationship between America and Europe.
For example, China persisted with its unannounced rare-earth embargo against Japan for seven weeks while continuing to claim in public that no export restrictions had been imposed.
So is this the time to end the arms ban imposed by both Europe and America after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989?
Otherwise, China may well have stopped supplying oil and food to the North after Kim’s regime conducted nuclear tests, in line with United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874, which imposed stringent economic sanctions against North Korea.
In the latest escalation of the trade dispute, the US imposed levies on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports.
The Maastricht convergence criteria that led to the euro's creation worked because they were imposed by a multinational agreement and were monitored multinationally.
These acts of self-immolation – at least 36 since March 2011 – have been staged to protest the increasingly heavy controls that China’s government in Beijing has imposed on Buddhist religious practices.
Simmering tensions have been fueled largely by the lengthy “re-education” campaigns imposed on the Tibetans, who are forced to renounce publicly their spiritual leader and profess patriotism and loyalty to China.
At any rate, the tariffs were also imposed on US allies such as Canada, which gives the lie to the national-security argument once and for all.
A written agreement to demobilize more than ten thousand paramilitaries by 2006 has been agreed, and plans are being laid – including a transitional period of limited immunity from arrest so long as the cease-fire holds and the time spent under this agreement will be counted against any eventual prison sentences imposed – to reintegrate them into civilian life.
Too many policymakers still believe that externally imposed opening to international capital flows was the main culprit behind the financial crises of the 1990’s – a view that unfortunately is lent some intellectual respectability by a small number of left-leaning academics.
His advocacy helped build support and forced a Senate floor vote on an amendment, co-sponsored with Senator Sherrod Brown, that would have imposed a hard cap on banks’ size and leverage (debt relative to assets).
This also reflects the fact that central features in many governments’ domestic and regional agendas are not even of their own making, but were imposed from outside the region.
The BRICS’ “no strings” policy explicitly challenges the conditionality imposed on borrowers by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, though the policy remains untested.
Even most reform-minded Greeks balk at the agenda imposed by the “troika” (the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank).
Islamist leaders have imposed new restrictions on women, including prohibitions on work, bans on travel without a muhram (male guardian), and compulsory veiling.
For example, the sanctions imposed in September 2017 on textiles, coal, and other exports are said to have reduced North Korean exports by 90%.
The simple truth is that the cost of preventing financial crises is much lower than the costs imposed by them after they erupt.
This condition could be imposed through a well-constructed scholarship system that embodies the slogan: “pay it back if you don’t come back.”
By contrast, some American policymakers continue to believe that Iran would abandon its enrichment program if only the European Union imposed unilateral sanctions.
Then there was the Nixon shock of 1971 (when the American president took the dollar off the gold standard and imposed wage, price, and trade controls), the 1982 international debt crisis in Mexico, the 1992 crisis in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.
In particular, there has been a surge in bans or taxes imposed on certain plastics or plastic products.
No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.
The revolt against Soviet domination in Afghanistan was led by holy warriors who then imposed their own form of misrule.
Effective size caps on banks were imposed by the banking reforms of the 1930’s, and there was an effort to maintain such restrictions in the Riegle-Neal Act of 1994.
Remembering Zhao ZiyangThe conditions under which Zhao Ziyang lived at the time of his death, in utter isolation from Chinese society due to an illegally imposed 16-year house arrest, shames both Chinese justice and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
With gas increasingly scarce, Argentina defaulted on its gas-export contracts to Chile, and imposed an abusive and arbitrary tax on gas sales to its Andean neighbor.
Members of the opposition have argued that the country is compelled to reform itself if it is not to have reform imposed from abroad.
Among the document’s proposals is an end to the emergency rule imposed since President Anwar Sadat’s assassination in 1981.
BackNext