Sentence examples for foist upon him from inspiring English sources

He said no to that request, just as he said no to the suggestion, floated by the players, that Richard Nixon serve as his general counsel, and no to virtually every scheme that baseball's owners tried to foist upon him during his time in office.

Heffer was foisted upon him as deputy.

I have foisted upon him a decision even more difficult than my own.

Unlike the World Cup campaign, when the captaincy was suddenly foisted upon him, this is his team.

Mr Raimi was apparently unwilling to accept both the script and the conditions being foisted upon him by Sony, who wanted to make the "rebooted" film for $230m.

But if N!xau did not possess the unbridled ambition of a Schwarzenegger, neither was a life of exploitation foisted upon him.

But I fear that all of this braying has obscured John's point that it is not the presence of the lanes he resents, but the manner in which they are being foisted upon him.

Artist Anish Kapoor has revealed that a project in which the world's longest slide will be built around his Olympic Park sculpture was "foisted" upon him by Boris Johnson, mayor of London, to make the artwork more profitable.

With his own messianic status (foisted upon him or self-perpetuated) never far away, Brand tonight reintroduces to us Ghandi, Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Jesus, using them as four pillars upon which to build an understanding of why we have filled godless lives with consumerism and celebrity rather than admire sacrifice and endeavour.

His inability to do so was, he said, what led him to break down in tears when called to the podium to accept the loser's plate, surely one of the most needlessly cruel trophies an athlete can have foisted upon him in public.

His fame has as much to do with the fights he has picked – or has had foisted upon him – as with the quality of his fiction; Franzen riles people in a way that is unusual, and perhaps reassuring for a novelist, given the endless debate about the relevance of that role.