Sentence examples for imposed a constitution from inspiring English sources

The king finally imposed a constitution by decree in February 1850, a constitution which was to survive unchanged until 1918.

For all their talk about respecting Haitian sovereignty, the Americans imposed a constitution, installed pliant presidents and dissolved non-pliant legislatures.

Even in building his church through Peter, Christ never imposed a constitution and by-laws on the apostolic college in him as President and Judas financial secretary.

A plot to restrict the king's power and impose a constitution was aborted in 1912.

If it then tries to impose a constitution of its own choosing, this may create more trouble.

The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents.

"It is trying to impose a constitution monopolised by one trend and is the furthest from national consensus, produced in a farcical way," the National Salvation Front said in a statement read out by Waheed Abdel-Meguid, one of the assembly members who withdrew.

(He was referring to the document proposed by the Deputy Prime Minister at the behest of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, seen to be an attempt to impose a constitution before the elections deliver an expected Islamist majority).

With scholarly thoroughness, he skewers separatist dogma, calling it preposterous to say that Canada is divisible but Quebec is not because it belongs "to the people". When Quebec's Premier, Lucien Bouchard, accused Ottawa of being imperialist for imposing a Constitution the province never signed, Mr. Dion accused Mr. Bouchard of risking anarchy by putting the will of the people above the law.

The NSF said the president was "trying to impose a constitution monopolised by one trend and is the furthest from national consensus, produced in a farcical way".

It was unclear from the wording whether he meant to return to Denmark or impose a constitution, but as either event was undesirable the Assembly soon came to an agreement.