Sentence examples for impose misery from inspiring English sources

Kim's hold on power depends not only on his willingness to impose misery upon his people but also on the willingness of the North Korean elite to accept their privileges and say nothing.

The real enemies of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for American families are those who seek to polarize incomes, destroy the social safety net, and impose misery on women and children in the name of religious morality.

"Fair Extension" is this book's darkest joke, about a sick man who can acquire health and happiness only by imposing misery on an oft-envied friend.

Every tragedy lands with stolid dramatic gravity, the characters defined less by their human urges and foibles than by the imposing misery of their circumstances.

Will it be an externally imposed misery or a self-determined type?

These giant debts often come with high interest rates, and impose needless misery on young adults -- and increasingly on not-so-young adults, as it may take decades to pay off loans.

Among hardliners were the Irish and Portuguese ministers, both from governments that have imposed fiscal misery on their citizens.

When Israelis don't see the connection between the restrictions Israel imposes and misery in Gaza, we take no responsibility for the rockets.

To impose the further misery of economic sanctions on a humiliated and diminished Russia is dangerous.

Calhoun would himself begin papers by quoting Malthus's view that "vice and misery impose the ultimate natural limit on the growth of populations".

And the political upheaval there creates a new complication: Western countries do not want to impose measures that deepen the misery of ordinary people, because it could help the government and strangle the fragile protest movement.