Sentence examples for constitution imposed on from inspiring English sources

Bosnia's problems are rooted in the Constitution imposed on the warring factions 15 years ago at the Dayton peace talks.

He either had to accept the results of a system everyone agreed needed to be fixed or exercise the clemency powers the state constitution imposed on him.

He means that Japan should become a normal country, not weighed down by guilt at its imperialist past and neutered by a pacifist constitution imposed on it as a result of the war.

This, as much as anything, fuels the desire in Japan to change the country's pacifist constitution, imposed on it by the Americans after the second world war, in a way that would give Japan a less constrained military force.The increasing sophistication of South Korea's economy, and its growing links with China, also have consequences for Japan.

But the constitution, imposed on the country in a rigged referendum, also bars the Burmese spouse or parent of foreign nationals from being president—a ban inserted specifically with Miss Suu Kyi in mind (her late husband was British, and she has two sons brought up in England).

In Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), a criminal case involving a claim of double jeopardy, he held that the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) to the Constitution imposed on the states only those provisions of the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments) that were "of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty".

The only two limits that the Constitution imposes on that plenary power are its applicability to offenses against the United States (i.e., not civil or state cases) and the prohibition on its use in an impeachment process.

Other significant provisions of the 1902 Constitution imposed racial segregation in public schools (which already existed on a de facto basis) and abolished the county court system.

The Stalinist constitution imposed in 1949 was a standard-issue Soviet constitution.

The constitution imposed by Napoleon was comparable to his other authoritarian constitutions but took into account Polish traditions and customs.

The current constitution imposes no limits on the number of terms he can run for, but sets a ceiling for presidential candidates' age at 70 years.