Sentence examples for had imposed one from inspiring English sources

And there was a lot of Mr. Bloomberg's being a hands-on manager who liked a good fight, but who had imposed one cardinal rule about his campaign: he would not sacrifice his good name to win the election.

John Cooper QC, a leading criminal barrister, said the orders granted had imposed "one of the most draconian provisions the system has ever know".

It could at least have imposed one more on a par with that of another player who got into trouble recently, for a repeat drug-related offense.

He has imposed one law -- on integrating the schools -- over the objections of the city council.

Ofcom has imposed one of its toughest sanctions to date on the BBC, requiring it to admit to viewers it breached broadcast regulations after BBC1 and BBC2 aired repeated swearing during its coverage of the Live Earth concerts.

From Robert Samuelson at the Washington Post, the declared answer to the world's crisis, mystifyingly (until one asks "cui bono?"), is to be found in one of the European Union's smallest (and poorest) nations, Latvia; a country that has imposed one of the world's most brutal austerity regimes on its people and whose policies have pushed it to near demographic collapse.

Beth Israel amended several of its policies and procedures as a result of the Smart case; it now has imposed one of the strictest protocols in the city for monitoring patients' fluids in its operating rooms, and doctors who have been in trouble with the state have a much harder time getting on its staff.

There was no peace to keep and only direct military intervention could have imposed one.

A casus belli was cooked up, over a fine that Burmese officials — probably corrupt ones — had imposed on a Scottish company.

A casus belli was cooked up, over a fine that Burmese officials probably corrupt ones—had imposed on a Scottish company.

But Israel is an enslaved state, enslaved to itself: it is fettered by fossilized thought patterns; manacled by ancient, even primitive, concepts; burdened by the worst yoke of all -- the one it has imposed on its own neck.