Sentence examples for bound to impose from inspiring English sources

He didn't make the law, he told her, but he was bound to impose it.

New regulations are bound to impose costs on business and cause unintended consequences, much as earlier disclosure rules helped create Enron's byzantine system for hiding conflicts of interest.

Harrison had told a conference – in 2008 – that most sentences judges were bound to impose, with rare exceptions, were too long.

"If it weren't for the mandatory minimum aspect of this, I would use my discretion and impose some separate sentence," he told Mr. Wollard, adding that he was "duty bound" to impose 20 years.

When Hillary Clinton lost her bid to the Democratic nomination, her Ladyship packed up her toys and jumped into the Republican sandbox with John McCain, and his platform of anti-choice, anti-gay rights, and all the other obstructions to progress the Republicans feel bound to impose.

This was because the officer's report that the appellant was fit for caning did not have legal effect – the District Court judge was duty bound to impose the sentence of caning irrespective of what the officer might have said in his report.

As educators, we are morally bound to not impose our own political beliefs upon our students.

On paper, the pact could have left Abkhazia duty-bound to impose sanctions on Turkey, its second-largest trading partner, after claims that the Turkish air force downed a Russian warplane.

When you axe 3,100 jobs (most to be gone by the end of this year) and impose pay cuts, Iberia's short-term financial performance was bound to improve.

These three pieces prove nothing except that any object of a certain heft and handsomeness is bound to look momentarily imposing in gallery spaces as handsomely hefty as these.

I suppose the first line is bound to be the most imposing part of any written project.