Sentence examples for impose a kind from inspiring English sources

The traditional solution, Dr. Korniss said, has been to impose a kind of central command on the system.

With stories, we make sense of the world and impose a kind of order on to chaos.

One element is a proposal before the Legislature to impose a kind of municipal czar, with powers to bypass the mayor and the City Council.

In other words, they can impose a kind of community service order on people who have committed no crime, which could, the law proposes, remain in force for the rest of their lives.

"I think we all have a profound psychological need just to impose a kind of order on our world, and we need to know what's going on," said Paul Milo, a freelance writer.

"At most times we impose a kind of discipline upon ourselves — nobody imposes it on us — particularly on a matter that the Israeli government has asked for unanimous support from the Jewish community," said Samuel Norich, the publisher of The Forward, a Jewish affairs weekly based in New York.

"They have imposed a kind of religion on us we have never seen.

And this fixed understanding imposes a kind of decorousness on the camerawork.

As she described it, the constant hunt for heroin imposed a kind of order on life's confounding open-endedness.

Instead, the Americans imposed a kind of armistice in the summer of 1995, which stopped the fighting simply by freezing the various armies where they stood.

On Afghanistan, Mr. Obama imposed a kind of squishy deadline, saying he would withdraw troops beginning in July 2011, without providing an end date.