Sentence examples for by imposition from inspiring English sources

It designed an international order in which American influence spread, as Ferguson himself notes, more by invitation than by imposition.

Undoubtedly true, though, is how the role-swapping underlines how the two characters ironically wind up in the same boat – in the wastes of loveless, friendless, mate-less isolation, the Scientist by mad, wilful choice; his Creature by imposition.

The term 'traveler' signifies by imposition the human being who is a traveler, but also represents the road the traveler travels on.

A denominative term such as 'white' signifies by imposition a substance that is white, but it signifies by representation the whiteness inhering in the substance.

Early logic works like Garlandus Compotista's Dialectica (17) and Abelard's Dialectica (II, 188) discussed a distinction between a word's signification by imposition and representation.

The transition was marred by imposition of a constitution which cemented military power, continuing violations of civil and political liberties, and wide scale persecution of the Muslim Rohingya.

The migration of athletes between nations is sometimes complicated by the imposition by professional leagues and associations of quotas that limit the number of foreign players a team can field.

This closely divided nation long has suffered from sharp religious tensions, many triggered by the imposition of Shari'ah law by the dozen Muslim-majority states.

A motion to be debated by the conference says: "Individuals, especially young people, can be damaged both by the imposition of criminal records and by a drug habit.

There are unknown costs in South Africa, imposed by the black empowerment charter or by the imposition of too high royalties".

While not frightened of change per se, I am dismayed by the imposition of a political agenda implemented by hacking away at funding.