Sentence examples for impose a reign from inspiring English sources

Otori Takeo, the warrior who narrates some of the sections, is essentially benign; he slaughters many antagonists, but only to impose a reign of peace.

In 1645, during the English Civil War, Matthew Hopkins Vincent Pricee), an opportunist and witchhunter, takes advantage of the breakdown in social order to impose a reign of terror in East Anglia.

A programme of state terrorism ran from 1976 to 1983 aimed to eliminate political dissidents, where the military utilized kidnappings, torture, killings, targeted assassinations and disappearances to impose a reign of terror and a culture of fear; it is estimated that up to 30 000 persons from that era remain 'disappeared' (Kaiser 2002).

Gordon told me in his office recently that the Sheriff has imposed "a reign of terror" on Maricopa County.

The admiral was said to have imposed a reign of terror on the Spanish colonists of Hispaniola, who were flogged, disfigured or executed without trial for minor infractions.

Yet some of these were quickly taken over by drug-traffickers and many imposed a reign of terror equal to or worse than that of the guerrillas.

Human Rights Watch accused the rebels of imposing a "reign of terror" during its weeklong occupation of the area around Masiaka, a town 45 miles east of Freetown.

There is no doubt that the so-called Islamic State (Isil) group has imposed a reign of terror on millions in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

The "student union" had become a pro-Gbagbo militia led by fake students, and it imposed a reign of terror based on racketeering, rape and murder.

There is no doubt that the so-called Islamic State group has imposed a reign of terror on millions in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

FOR more than a decade, the Arellano Felix clan imposed a reign of terror on Tijuana, to protect its hold over the export of cocaine and other drugs to California.