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Imposing in sentence

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It's coming from the economists imposing their mechanistic thinking on the science.
It's a lot of traditional imposing coming by authority figures such as the men, the grandparents and so on.
And we're going to fix them by imposing back on them street and block systems and returning to the building lot as the normal increment of development.
Fish development meant imposing on countries that had already 100,000 fishers to impose on them industrial fishing.
It would be absurd if we were to engage again in the kind of operations we were engaged in, in Iraq and Afghanistan if we were to suddenly find ourselves in a situation in which we were imposing anything other than a democratic system.
This is very much in the sense of Max Weber's idea of potential power, which is the probability of imposing one's own will despite the opposition of others.
What followed were the most difficult decisions in my life, painful to me, painful to my countrymen, imposing cuts, austerity, often on those not to blame for the crisis.
We end up imposing our own priorities on the people of the malarious world.
The Iranians believed that whatever they did, even if they moderated their policies, the U.S. would continue to seek Iran's isolation, and the only way Iran could compel Washington to change its position was by imposing a cost on the U.S. if it didn't.
The more we like each other, the more we avoid the real cooperation that would strain our relationships by imposing tough tradeoffs.
That's called sodcasting, (Laughter) Imposing your sound on people around you carelessly and inconsiderately.
But why are you imposing this on me?
You are imposing this on me!
Now, if you think about how we deal with energy pricing, for instance, we consider emissions taxes, which means we're imposing the costs of pollution on people who actually use that energy.
What if, instead of imposing solutions, we just added fire to the already-burning flame that they have?
And no one has come clean from the troika of lenders that have been imposing this policy to say, "This was a colossal mistake."
Bonaparte was a ruler full of contradictions, defending a popular revolution by imposing absolute dictatorship, and spreading liberal ideals through imperial wars, and though he never achieved his dream of conquering Europe, he undoubtedly left his mark on it, for better or for worse.
Politicians frame the issue as a zero-sum issue, that if we benefit refugees, we're imposing costs on citizens.
In major Chinese cities, they're imposing quotas on the number of cars on the streets.
Well, because then it tells me the truth, instead of me imposing the truth.
"Oh, so you're one of these people who goes around the world imposing Western democracy on countries that can't handle it."
Evidence prevents the elites from imposing their own view without proof.
Ones that are about creating the space for us to be our authentic selves and not imposing this standard of what masculinity or femininity is supposed to be.
We need a way to tell our algorithms what images look like without imposing one type of image's features too much.
One way we can try to get around this is by imposing the features of different kinds of images and seeing how the type of image we assume affects our reconstructions.
If they all produce a very similar-looking face, then we can start to become confident that they're not imposing their own cultural biases on the drawings.
He was a learned scholar and musician who generously patronized the arts, as well as being an imposing warrior and sportsman.
Farmers that rely on nature for solutions, for answers, rather than imposing solutions on nature.
With his musket and curved saber, he cuts an imposing figure.
This wasn't imposing an architecture on a community; this was giving them the tools and the space to allow them to rebuild and regrow the way they want to.
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