Sentence examples for idea imposed on from inspiring English sources

The nation was a unifying idea imposed on diffuse history, and the German imagination -- like that of many other European states -- still longs for homogeneity, whatever the abundant evidence to the contrary.

One idea, imposing levies on the industry, will not raise enough money for a long time.

2. Another version of natural kind realism comes from John Sergeant in his Solid Philosophy Asserted Against the Fancies of the Ideists (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984) originally published 1697, where he argues that generality, e.g., species and genus ideas, are imposed on us by nature by providing observable similarities; see Reflections 16, section 11.

That the idea of equality is just an idea that's imposed on us..."....

"The only thing we'll have to do is to free them from the mind-set that puts profit-making at the heart of every business, an idea that we imposed on them through our flawed economic theory".

But this turn of events reflects poorly on the FA – which two weeks before a low-key friendly, and six weeks after tickets went on sale, may have put commercial motivations above sporting ones – and suggests either Southgate's focus on youth has been insincere, or that the idea has been imposed on him.

"If I want to talk about, let's say the bedroom tax, and demand to know from David Cameron why he thinks the bedroom tax is a good idea to impose on Scottish people, nobody else can explain that - they can say they're against it as well, but David Cameron would have to explain it".

Raines felt the paper needed a "higher competitive metabolism," but in practice that often meant more reckless story ideas imposed by Raines from on high.

But they also look like a child's idea of science, order imposed on beads and lemonade.

First let me lay to rest once and for all the condescending myth of "ideological colonisation", the idea that contraception is imposed on developing countries by the west.

The doctrine might have been a good idea when it was imposed on broadcasters in 1949 as a result of anti-Communist hysteria, but it became outmoded and too cumbersome to implement and police, in addition to being unconstitutional.