Sentence examples for bid to impose from inspiring English sources

A bid to impose self-regulation in 2006 failed.

And the S.E.C. agreed to drop its bid to impose the fraud injunction.

Not all of his attempts have been successful, such as a failed bid to impose an $8 traffic fee for a congested part of Manhattan.

Russia, for its part, vetoed America's bid to impose sanctions on Myanmar last year, and Thailand buys Myanmar's natural gas.China is not just cultivating these countries so that it can lay its hands on their natural resources.

In a bid to impose a semblance of co-ordination on the chaos, the assembled ministers were invited to hike the EU-wide minimum level for deposit insurance, to €100,000.

The Vatican has diplomatic relations with 177 countries and has used its diplomatic status to lobby the US, United Nations and European Union in a concerted bid to impose its moral agenda through national and international parliaments.

Thankfully, though, bids to impose order on caffeinated workers have generally ended in failure, following a popular revolt.

They urged Harris either to reject Prime's bid or to impose a laundry list of conditions to ensure that Prime, a for-profit company, keeps all the hospitals' services intact.

In the process, they have highlighted the danger of not clearly defining what constitutes terrorism and who is a terrorist not only for the rule of law and defense of human rights but also for the credibility of autocrats who abuse the void in their bid to arbitrarily impose their will.

A full-blown crisis was averted only when America, which contributes 22% of the UN's budget, and other big donors abandoned their bid to re-impose a cap on UN spending just before funds ran out in June.

Yet muscle-flexing and point-scoring by the parliament holding up a painstaking compromise on the EU's next seven-year budget, capping bankers' bonuses or promoting a financial-transactions tax understandably infuriate many governments.The parliament's most ambitious bid is the attempt to impose its choice at the top of the commission.