Sentence examples for impose not from inspiring English sources

The new conservatives wished to impose not only British laws but also western values on India.

"And there is a great deal of fear out there that the strength of America's economy will impose not only economic changes but social changes as well.

"This suit seeks to impose not only appropriate civil penalties, but also comprehensive injunctive relief to ensure that Bank of New York's alleged fraud stops now," Mr. Bharara said.

It's clear, though, that Obama is trying to impose not a hard-and-fast manifesto for judicial liberalism but a sensibility and a work in progress that seek to synthesize previous legal thinking into something cohesive and new.

It happened yesterday to Clegg after he used a Guardian interview on Saturday to promise that a Clegg-led government (that is the theoretical position) might impose not just any old spending cuts, but "savage" ones.

This is, after all, a system where unelected institutions and other states have the power to override elected governments – in fact to impose not only policies but effectively governments too, as we may be about to see in Greece.

(Austerity imposed not just in the periphery, but in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere).

The revelations of character, when they are finally served up, are imposed, not earned.

For example, the new law says those penalties "shall" be imposed, not "must be".

MacLeish views the events of his career as imposed, not chosen.

"The antiques of Lyon are imposing, not ostentatious," Mr. Vernay added.