The phrase "impose consequences" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to make someone face or experience the results or effects of their actions or behavior. Example: The teacher warned the students that she would impose consequences if they continued to talk during class.
We do our best and impose consequences on the burglar not the builder.
However stakeholders – such as the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and other major sporting bodies – can impose consequences.
It will need meaningful investigative authority, teeth to force powerful executive agencies and corporations to cooperate with its investigation, and the ability to impose consequences for wrongdoing.
He called on the Security Council to pass a resolution that would impose consequences on Syria if it failed to turn over its chemicals weapons.
Did it occur to your writer that young people engage in this behavior because their parents don't set rules or impose consequences?
It is time for Congress to act and impose consequences for Saudi Arabia's dangerous behavior, from Yemen to its bloody repression of peaceful critics.
The question for decision is how sweeping the judicially imposed consequences of this disregard shall be.
Yet the soccer-team revelations are a sobering reminder that sexist behavior can't easily be stamped out through rules, regulations, and imposed consequences alone.
Trump has since talked repeatedly about the importance of respecting the flag, but he has not pushed Congress to advance any legislation imposing consequences for its desecration.
Smith says she has learned how to use boundaries with her children, imposing consequences such as confiscating computer equipment when one of her sons refused to go to school.
Instead a confusing mosaic of city, state and county reporting leaves too many cracks for data to fall through, without imposing consequences for local police failing to report when they kill those they are sworn to protect.
