Sentence examples for if to impose from inspiring English sources

An insistent solo flute breaks through as if to impose some order on the bustling musical strands.

And in its middle-class neighborhoods, Baghdad is a city of surprising topiary sculptures: leafy ficus trees are carved in geometric spirals, balls, arches and squares, as if to impose order on a chaotic sprawl.

To the priests and the congregants on Sunday, many attending from other churches or mosques, the victims of the attack were martyrs, or shohada — an Arabic word commonly used here to describe both suicide bombers and their victims, as if to impose meaning on violence that feels empty of meaning.

The tribunal will now decide on what sanction, if any, to impose.

Why on earth does Jung make Sabina his assistant as he subjects his wife to a word-association test, if not to impose himself on her sexually?

Reports in the US yesterday revealed that Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary, has admitted in a secret memo that America has no Plan B if efforts to impose tough sanctions on Iran fail.

This is very much in line with President Barack Obama's public diplomacy, which is to engage with Iran and, if necessary, to impose sanctions to try to get it to stop its nuclear activities.

It now falls to Beck, who alone is authorized to discipline officers, to decide what punishment, if any, to impose.

If the commission follows Bustamante's recommendation, it would then be up to Beck to decide what discipline, if any, to impose.

Dr. Kuhns scanned the audience as if trying to impose order through sheer force of will; after a minute or so, he thrust up his hands and hollered.

If legislatures want to impose longer prison sentences or "if they create new crimes, then the legislature should appropriate dollars for that," he says.