Sentence examples for fail to impose from inspiring English sources

The administration's proposals also fail to impose accountability on Wall Street firms in the mortgage chain.

If some fail to impose the restrictions, the agency will consider a more forceful ban, Mr. Taylor said.

Groupings and factions form for a time, but few have formal hierarchies and most fail to impose discipline.

But the homeowners I've talked to say the rules don't go far enough, particularly because they fail to impose penalties large enough to force lenders to be more responsive to consumers.

He cut his teeth as parliamentary attaché for Michel Rocard, the prime minister in 1988-91, and watched him try and fail to impose his centre-left ideas on the old-fashioned socialism of François Mitterrand, then France's president.

He disdains legal doctrines that fail to impose liability on people who hurt others' feelings by calling them names or on bystanders who could help but choose not to.

A "transition federal government" has totally failed to impose itself.

At the least, it seems that Mr Kim failed to impose the control he had promised.

In the first couple of games we failed to impose ourselves on Argentina and Samoa.

As leader of the Free Democrats, Mr. Westerwelle failed to impose discipline among his ministers.

Similarly, Amtrak fails to impose punitive fines on last-minute travellers.