Sentence examples for cannot be imposed on from inspiring English sources

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside.

Furthermore, democracy cannot be imposed on another culture.

"It cannot be imposed on a defendant over his objection," Professor Morse said.

But since a solution cannot be imposed on unwilling warring parties, then in these circumstances I would favour withdrawal.

Create safeguards to ensure that changes in the single market cannot be imposed on non-eurozone members by the eurozone.

The restrictions on advertising, like the penalties if child smoking does not decline, cannot be imposed on the industry against its will, for this would be unconstitutional.

In the Columbia case last week, Philip A. Miscimarra, the Obama appointee who was the lone dissenter, quoted old language, from a 1973 N.L.R.B. case, which noted that the "industrial model cannot be imposed blindly on the academic world".

"New obligations not authorized by the governing documents cannot be imposed by the board on its own".

Most recently, the Court has struck down gun restrictions such as a "Gun-Free School Zone," or mandatory background checks for gun sales, which (the Court reasoned) cannot be imposed by the feds on the state governments.

Some tax protesters cite or quote from Redfield v. Fisher: The argument seems to be that because "the individual's rights to live and own property" are arguably rights against which "an excise cannot be imposed," the federal income tax on income from labor should therefore be unconstitutional.

The equation is degenerate on the boundary, accordingly, the usual boundary value condition cannot be imposed in Dirichlet's way.