Sentence examples for impose preferences from inspiring English sources

Affirmative action, if it did not impose preferences outright, at least countenanced them.

I want to be treated in a manner that does not assume all people are the same, and I never want anyone else to automatically impose their preferences upon my life (even if they believe their personal preferences are morally sound).

Freedom-lovers should not seek to impose their preferences on others.

That may play well in some reaches of the popular imagination, but it gravely misleads the public by implying that the United States can impose its preferences.

Mr. Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment, but in a column he wrote about the suit last year in The Wall Street Journal, he said, "The legal system should not be used as a bludgeon against individuals targeted by political activists to impose policy preferences they have failed to implement via the ballot box".

The dilemma was this: courts could impose racial preferences to change foot-dragging or inept defendants (and by doing so apparently transgress the plain prohibition in Title VII) or they could order less onerous steps they knew would be ineffective, thus letting discrimination continue (and by doing so violate their duty under Title VII).

A fundamental principle to be observed is that users should be always in control and should be able to decline advice from the system, impose their preferences, undo previous decisions and actions from the system and even disconnect the system altogether if it is perceived inconvenient.

Pompeo added that efforts to label products' GMO content were a "naked attempt to impose the preferences of a small segment of the populace on the rest of us and make the constituents that I serve in Kansas pay more for their food".

But Britain has not yet been able to impose its preference.

(The same of course could happen in any country in which prospective parents systematically impose a preference for boys).

By assuming other people should be treated the way I want to be treated, it imposes my preferences and values on those around me. Wouldn't a better rule be "One should treat others as they want to be treated"?