Sentence examples for act to impose from inspiring English sources

The phrase "act to impose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is taking action to enforce or establish something, such as rules or regulations.
Example: "The government decided to act to impose stricter environmental regulations to combat climate change."
Alternatives: "take steps to enforce" or "move to establish".

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Over the course of several decisions, the UK's courts have applied that act to impose constraints upon the use of control orders.

The timing of the Trump Administration's decision is interesting because it comes nine months after Congress passed legislation — the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act to impose sweeping sanctions on Moscow.

The police may use the act to impose restrictions on demonstrations including location, duration and number of protestors to keep public order, however it is not designed to prevent reporters covering news events.

Mr Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to impose an 80-day cooling-off period.See article: The lockout endsAmericans are getting fatter: a new survey says that almost two-thirds of them are either overweight or obese.At least six people were killed and two wounded by an unidentified sniper in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.

One line of reasoning is that a couple of true Tea Partiers — Marco Rubio and Rand Paul — have lately been raising loud objections to Ms. McCarthy's aggressive (and thoroughly proper) use of Clean Air Act to impose tough new regulations on mercury and other emissions from power plants — and that Republicans on the committee have felt obliged to knuckle under.

But Democrats defeated a Republican amendment restricting federal funds for abortion.The Obama administration upped the ante on negotiations in Congress over a bill to lower greenhouse-gas emissions when it said it would use the "power and authority" of the Clean Air Act to impose such reductions on the worst-polluting facilities.

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Among them were acts to impose mandatory minimum sentences for a range of sexual offenses as well as for certain drug-related crimes, an act to eliminate pardons for serious crimes and replace them with "record suspensions," and an act that would prevent judges from imposing conditional sentences for certain crimes.

In the southern sector of the mountains, we see evidence that an efficient glacial buzzsaw has acted to impose constraints upon topography, limiting peak altitudes, and concentrating land-surface area (hypsometric maxima) close to palaeo-ELAs.

In the model just described, it is assumed that the auxin acts to impose a gradient on the parameter k2.

MEDII acts to impose an ectoderm fate on differentiating cells by suppressing the formation of mesoderm, even in the presence of the mesoderm-inductive activities in serum.

The co-expression between FOXP3 and the 'master regulators' of effector cell lineages fits within a model in which FOXP3 acts to impose suppressor function upon the defined effector subtypes.

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