Sentence examples for impose the primacy from inspiring English sources

Radical empiricism, by contrast, would only impose the primacy of the subjective, the source of contentiousness, dogmatism and arbitrariness, which he abhorred in speculative metaphysical doctrines.

My father did not impose the burkha.

You have judges who impose the sentences.

Stellarators impose the twist from outside.

The Belmont stewards imposed the penalty Wednesday.

The curfew was imposed the following night.

It imposes the best economic outcome".

Despite what confused comrades might have told you, it wasn't the capitalists that started World War One, but the Old Regime: "The Great War was an expression of the decline and fall of the old order fighting to prolong its life rather than of the explosive rise of industrial capitalism bent on imposing its primacy".

These restrictions are imposed for brevity, though the discussion is oriented to the primacy of literal usage and informativeness (see, e.g., Bach and Harnish 1979; McDowell 1980).

(Sound familiar?) Attempts by the Nixon administration to block publication on national security grounds — to impose "prior restraint" — led to an important Supreme Court decision affirming the primacy of a free press over the government's desire to preserve secrecy.

(Punishments are also, of course, imposed on non-citizens who commit crimes within a state's territory: on the primacy of citizenship in understanding criminal law and its authority, and on the status of non-citizens, see Duff forthcoming).