Sentence examples for first imposed on from inspiring English sources

Quantitative trade restrictions were first imposed on a large scale during and immediately after World War I.

Security Council sanctions were first imposed on Unita, which had been supported by the United States and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire during the cold war, in 1993.

But Myanmar's leaders have only hunkered down, apparently comfortable with an international isolation that they first imposed on themselves in the early 1960's.

Over time, a reverence for the rule of law, democratic ways and European integration, first imposed on it by occupying powers, had been internalized, and had become a part of the ethos of the new, more humble Federal Republic.

This is a catch-all levy that was first imposed on vacationers and later on business travelers that Mr. Morgenstern says was misleadingly labeled as a tax at checkout time at Sheraton, Westin and other Starwood properties.

What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world's common treasury by a handful of people, assisted by neoliberal policies which were first imposed on rich nations by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

She was ill at ease, at first, imposing on the prisoners' lives.

The West first imposed sanctions on Russian businessmen and officials after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March 2014, before unrest spread to the east of the country.

In 2001, the same year President Bush first imposed limits on financing of stem cell research, Singapore snagged the National Cancer Institute researcher Edison Liu Tak-Bun.

When Haring first imposed himself on the consciousness of Manhattan as a guerrilla street artist some 20 years ago, his graffiti figures seemed to pulse with uninhibited joy.

The designations, which come two and a half years after the United States first imposed sanctions on the corps, illustrate the scope and limitations of the president's pressure campaign.