The phrase "able to impose upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or ability to take advantage of someone or something, often in a manipulative or unfair manner.
Example: "He was able to impose upon her kindness, taking more than he gave in their friendship."
Alternatives: "capable of taking advantage of" or "able to exploit".
The photographers, clucking & capering until their victims smiled, were able to impose upon them a dreadful fixed gaiety.
Astronauts aboard the space station have been able to impose upon the nearby Russian Soyuz spacecraft, using its limited-capacity toilet in a pinch, and have now apparently rigged some sort of sack-like contraption to the toilet on the ISS.
The author's own ordeal gives force to his haunting phrasing of Goya's "fear of being no longer able to impose himself upon the world, brought to the surface in an acute form in his deafness".
It left Goya with the fear that he would no longer be "able to impose himself upon the world," heightened his sense of mortality and focused his imagination on "disaster and mayhem".
"As such, via a disciplinary panel, the BHA is able to impose sanctions upon individuals not bound by the rules of racing, which include exclusion from entering any licensed premises or having dealings with any licensed person regarding horse racing".
These legends are then able to "impose itself upon reality because men live it fully in a way to make sense of their humanity".
We examine RPE proliferative abilities in vitro from cells harvested from central and peripheral retinal regions and determine if central cells are able to impose senescence upon peripheral cells via soluble signals by exposing them to medium conditioned centrally.
To teach with authority means that the teacher is able to impose his doctrine upon the learner under a religious and moral obligation.
The two most dominant teams in women's soccer have always played this way, both assured that one would be able to impose its will upon the other, if only by the slightest of margins.
Philip was able to impose a settlement upon Greece, which all states accepted, with the exception of Sparta.
In the final months of the war the ground attack groups were still able to impose operational constraints upon the enemy.
