Sentence examples for imposed itself on from inspiring English sources

President Jacob Zuma's personal Xanadu, complete with stately pleasure-dome, has imposed itself on the landscape of one of South Africa's poorest areas, Nkandla, in KwaZulu-Natal.

Politics imposed itself on colloquial poetry".

A new reality has now imposed itself on the Greek Cypriots.

It imposed itself on a blitzed Britain and a baffled population without a by-your-leave.

I was simply obeying a profound vision that had imposed itself on me.

In this situation the detective story imposed itself on me, without any voluntary act on my part".

He had the worst record of any France coach after a year in the job, but his desire to build an athletic side that "imposes itself on its opponents" has gradually reaped results.

Being a physical medium, one that imposes itself on the viewer and its surrounding environment, motion is always an unspoken aspect of sculpture, but kinetic sculpture brings that element to the forefront and changes the dynamic between viewer and object.

The fact that Denmark wants to impose itself on the area in one way or another is hardly a new occurrence – Skåne was under Danish rule longer than it has been under Swedish.

It also had to be flexible to respond to the ever-changing nature of his business; one that facilitated collaboration and one that did not impose itself on their open and transparent culture".

When the euro was formally adopted on New Year's Eve 1999, Jacques Santer, then president of the European Commission, declared that "in one single blow, Europe is imposing itself on the world's financial and monetary map".