Sentence examples for Impose strictures from inspiring English sources

Hytner believes he cannot impose strictures, that directors' casting decisions have to be based on their own instincts: "I am very interested in gender-blind casting and often think it is excellent.

Like Alma, Moore has accessorized his eccentricity to the extent that it acts as a deterrent, to anyone who might try to impose strictures on his field of inquiry.

Despite the emperor's attempt to impose strictures on eunuch activities, Shunzhi's favorite eunuch Wu Liangfu (吳良輔; d. 1661), who had helped him defeat the Dorgon faction in the early 1650s, was caught in a corruption scandal in 1658.

Omar accepted international food and medical aid and allowed United Nations humanitarian-relief operations, but he imposed strictures that limited their effectiveness.

He constantly examines the contours of his friendship with Larry Lime: painfully aware of its socially imposed strictures, inclined to speculate on the consequences of refusing to obey them and occasionally brave enough to risk those consequences.

A draft law before the Indonesian Parliament would impose Islamic strictures.

Any attempt by the UK to impose similar strictures would likely be ruled illegal.

Some Syrians have complained of Nusra fighters trying to impose religious strictures on others.

"I am concerned that Congress may inhibit charities' ability to do their missions if we impose unreasonable strictures," said Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia.

Such a move would provide no easy break though, as it would come with harsh conditions that would impose further strictures on economies already deep in the midst of austerity programs.

Since Quine and Goodman not only impose nominalistic strictures, but also finitism in their joint article (Quine and Goodman 1947: §2), the syntactic and proof-theoretic notions defined still fall short of the usual platonist counterparts.