Sentence examples for Subject someone to from inspiring English sources

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Subject someone to a buffet and there's a tendency to want to at least sample everything -- and to go back for seconds, and thirds, and fourths.

"We don't want to subject someone to cowboy surgery when it can be done better," Dr. Nakashima said.

But now being in that higher bracket could subject someone to new taxes on other income, like the 3.8 percent Medicare surcharge on investment income, or a phaseout on the value of itemized deductions.

"To use them to subject someone to the cruel and extreme penalty of execution is truly appalling," he added in a statement, which stressed the "urgent need" to stop executions.

"The fact that the State of Connecticut apparently has no present facility to accommodate Michael Skakel is not a reason to subject someone to a sentence of 25 to 60 years as opposed to virtually nothing," Mr. Sherman said.

"But what we're concerned with is the broader rule," she said, proceeding to note that the court had to take account of potentially "millions of applications across the country" if it ruled, as Mr. DeCarli was asking it to, that the police cannot ordinarily subject someone to a full custodial arrest for committing a minor traffic offense that carries only a fine.

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Subjecting someone to unwanted conduct that violates a person's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

Harassment Subjecting someone to unwanted conduct that violates a person's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

"All New Yorkers should be concerned with a proposal that subjects someone to arrest merely for being on the street," Mr. Siegel said.

While there are numerous studies showing the harmful effects of solitary confinement on prisoners, studies of the general public are rarer because of the ethical concerns around subjecting someone to prolonged isolation for the purpose of a clinical trial.

"It's not very good for that kind of relationship," she said, "if five people stop you when you're walking down the street and say, 'You changed my life.' So having been married to somebody who was pretty threatened when I began to get famous, I'm leery of subjecting someone to that".

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