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UK
/ɪmpˈəʊz/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpoʊz/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpoʊz/ ]
VERB
-
compel to behave in a certain way
Social relations impose courtesy
duty constrains one to act often contrary to one's desires or inclinations -
impose something unpleasant
The principal visited his rage on the students -
impose and collect
levy a fine
How To Use impose In A Sentence
- WorldCom promises not to impose a minimum call charge and no set up or monthly rental fee.
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
- A temporary export ban was imposed to allow time for a British buyer to match the price, but the attempt failed. Times, Sunday Times
- The US could impose punitive tariffs of up to 100 % on some countries'exports.
- It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength. Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans
- The first is to wonder why, if the government knows that it wants to impose a ban, does it not get on with it? Times, Sunday Times
- Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
- At the bottom of the monument, below the Ten Commandments, there are two small Stars of David and also two Greek letters, chi and rho, superimposed over each other to represent the name Christ. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution