The phrase "imposed itself as" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate when something has become a recognized aspect of something else. For example, "Rugby has imposed itself as an important part of New Zealand's culture."
That collection of senior generals, having controlled the country for decades, had imposed itself as a de facto fourth branch of government and was recently working hard to limit the president's power.Gone is the long-serving defence minister, Field-Marshal Muhammad Tantawi, and his deputy and heir-apparent, General Sami Enan, as well as the heads of all the main service branches.
To face the challenges of the inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), which imposed itself as a fast multielemental technique due to the charged-coupled device (CCD) technology, the need to increase the versatility of AAS with respect to line selection, background correction and higher analysis speed became imperative.
Figure 10 Performance comparison of SC-SFBC with incompatible subcarrier pairing and MU double SC-SFBC with reduced decoding complexity, an example for M 0 = 60, M 1 = 20, QPSK 1/2, N Rx = 4. SC-FDMA imposed itself as a good option for the uplink air interface of wireless communications systems.
Gradually, gangsta rap imposed itself as the dominant genre and completely changed younger people's mindset.
Spain forbade its American colonies to trade with other nations or foreign colonies, and imposed itself as the only buyer and vendor for their international trade.
The one chosen or imposed itself as unavoidable was the one applied by the Northern European countries anchored in sound financial management.
Alternatively, the model of the cinema is imposing itself as the dominant paradigm in all fields of artistic endeavour.
On the sources of his own inspiration, Almodóvar claims the choice sometimes just imposes itself, as presumably it did when Alice Munro's stories came to fascinate him.
After the attempt by the US to impose itself as the sole superpower – the universal policeman – failed, there is now the need to establish the rules of interaction between these local centres as regards their conflicting interests.
Since then Isis has been at war with Syrian rebels to impose itself as a state that accepts no other group acting in rebel-held areas unless they pledge allegiance to it.
Now, as the German economic model of low wage-growth increasingly imposes itself as Europe's economic template, social democrats elsewhere have pain in admitting that their traditionally growth-oriented goals have mutated in real time into policies of austerity first, and, just maybe, expansion later.
