The phrase "and imposed the first" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the act of establishing or enforcing something for the first time, often in a historical or formal context.
Example: "The committee met to discuss the new regulations and imposed the first set of rules for the organization."
Alternatives: "and established the first" or "and enacted the first".
He negotiated the first million-dollar television contract and imposed the first "death penalty" — a one-year ban on Kentucky's basketball team in 1952 after several players were involved in a point-shaving scandal.
Although Schleswig was completely lost to the Holstein-Hanseatic coalition by 1432, Erik defeated Hanseatic fleets and imposed the first tolls (1428) on ships plying the strait between Denmark and Sweden.
Yet the real spirit of the age was represented by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman who formed the government which began both the drive for old-age pensions and imposed the first of limits on the powers of the House of Lords.
General Ayub Khan, who overthrew a democratic government and imposed the first martial law in 1958, decided in 1960 to move capital from Karachi to a rugged and hilly area north of Rawalpindi.
So when President Jacques Chirac (a former chain smoker) declared a "war on tobacco" last May and imposed the second of three steep tax increases on cigarettes last month, the tobacconists of France counterattacked.
The Obama administration today released details of its national suite of auto standards that would mandate increased fuel economy and impose the first-ever greenhouse gas standard on the nation's cars and trucks.
After all, the most important court in the country has finally imposed the first and foremost defeat of one of the icons of Brazil's current ethical and political disaster.
He is for tax reform and reminds us that he has imposed the first tax on bank profits in New York City's history, that he has increased stock transfer and corporate taxes in gen eral, and that he has initiated popu list court fights against public utilities, Blue Cross and the tele phone company.
By 1999, the United Nations imposed the first of two sets of sanctions that cut off Taliban funds and arms.
King Ferdinand then in 1811 imposed the first taxes, at a single stroke alienating his aristocracy.
The newcomers gained a majority on the public utility board and imposed the moratorium on their first day in office, freezing the number of water meters at precisely 580.
