Sentence examples for enforcing upon from inspiring English sources

After Theodosius ordered the massacre of the citizens of Thessalonica, however, Ambrose demanded that the emperor undergo penance, thereby enforcing upon Theodosius submission to the church as its son, not its master.

The Anglo-American legal heritage belongs to the enforced upon more than to the enforcers.

But where tyranny is enforced upon the people, as Barack Obama is doing, the people suffer and mourn".

He then used this quadruple alliance to enforce upon Spain a settlement of its differences with Austria.

As opposed to the restrictive, heavy, floor-length skirts enforced upon the older players, Dod's age meant she was allowed to wear a calf-length dress.

I have said that I would take a pay cut and I asked that a pay cut be enforced upon me.

"The reality of our lives enforces upon us at times the dreadful mixing of sadness with sadness, of sadness with joy," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said at the ceremony.

Phil Robilotto, chief of department for the Suffolk County Police, said the law would be enforced "upon observation," not by setting up checkpoints to catch users.

And six states now recognize clotheslines as solar collectors: Some communities have tried to enforce upon homeowners strict aesthetic criteria that deem wet linens and lingerie unsightly.

If you take a holiday and decide to go away in the summer, that's one thing, but when it's enforced upon you, 'Now you're not going to do anything for two weeks,' that's different".

Although the policy of Hellenization was not enforced upon the population, Greek ideas did influence the local educated classes, just as local practices were gradually adopted by the Greeks.