Sentence examples for had long imposed from inspiring English sources

Monarchs had long imposed sumptuary laws preventing hoi polloi from dressing too grandly.

India has long imposed price ceilings on a wide range of goods.

It has long imposed tariffs on imported technology products to encourage domestic manufacturing.

I wondered if Carter might have taken inspiration from Babbitt, who has long imposed clarity and wit on his ostensibly esoteric designs.

But it is well established that Congress can attach conditions to the money it supplies, and Congress has long imposed Medicaid requirements that states must meet.

Sensitive to these complaints, the Canadian government has long imposed protective duties on some Chinese exports, such as hot-rolled steel plate.

The U.S. immigration system has long imposed national caps, meant to control not just the size of the immigrant population but its composition, too.

The legal issue is subtle, given that states have long imposed mandates of various kinds themselves, including those requiring children to go to school or requiring drivers to have liability insurance.

The American left has long imposed its values on a divided country through the courts from the abolition of school prayer to civil rights for blacks to the legalisation of abortion.

Lachlan Wolfers of KPMG, an accounting firm, says he expects the reform to expand nationwide by the end of this year.China's government has long imposed VAT on tangible goods and the tax now contributes a quarter of its revenues.

The Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America have long imposed standards over the assignment of credits in their respective fields, and the writers guild operates a complex arbitration process that annually sorts through conflicting claims of authorship on films.