Sentence examples for by imposing on from inspiring English sources
When they don't exist, the clever ones invent them, as Lars von Trier and his Dogme 95 brethren did by imposing on themselves perversely austere stipulations.
Lord Wedderburn pointed out that it was the bill that was treating firefighters differently, by imposing on their union an extra liability.
Others for example, John Gray in "Hayek on Liberty" (1984) and Roland Kley in "Hayek's Social and Political Thought" (1994)—make of Hayek a more systematic thinker by imposing on him a clearer grid.
They were the first harbingers of a countryside envisaged by metropolitan Tories, seeking strange metropolitan revenge on their shire colleagues by imposing on them the cluttered landscapes of Spain and Ireland.
In this case, it's an argument drawn from the work of the historians Philippe Erlanger and Jean-Dominique de la Rochefoucauld, both consultants on the project: that Louis was able to tame a rebellious aristocracy partly by imposing on them fashions in food, clothing and architecture that were expensive enough to keep them in permanent debt.
But Lord Bassam of Brighton, Labour's chief whip in the Lords, has tabled amendments that would, in effect, exempt families with children by imposing on councils in England a duty to grant a tenancy for the length of time that any child in the home is in full-time education.
He proposes paying for these by imposing taxes on the very wealthy and on excessive Wall Street behavior.
Now the company is sharpening that strategy by imposing limits on how many groups a message can be sent on to.
By imposing tariffs on energy from overseas, we can reduce other taxes on a revenue-neutral basis.
