Sentence examples for imposed powerful from inspiring English sources

He has in a mere 31 days since the protests started imposed powerful sanctions, frozen Colonel Qaddafi's assets, secured a robust Security Council resolution, organised an international coalition, executed a near-flawless military campaign, rolled Colonel Qaddafi's forces back to the west, taken out the colonel's air defences and knocked out a good deal of his ground forces.

Sophisticated perceptual and cognitive abilities are central to the success of many taxa, and may have imposed powerful selection for increases in relative brain size [1] [3].

Government borrowing of that magnitude can impose powerful upward pressure on interest rates.

Even though it's a two-seater, it's a big car: imposing, powerful and sleek, yet not flashy.

Such microenvironments impose powerful selection forces on neoplastic cells, and those cells, in turn, induce changes in microenvironments.

An imposing, powerful-looking man with a moustache and almost military bearing that contrasted strangely with his wild lifestyle, Graham was a genial, enigmatic and complex figure who first appeared on the London folk scene at a time when it provided a home for an eclectic mixture of maverick musicians, as well as great traditional singers, writers or instrumentalists.

People want responsible choice, not the one-size-fits-all television offerings imposed by powerful media interests".

Here was a charter imposed by powerful barons – hardly nascent democrats – on the weak King John to prevent him trampling on their rights: it didn't satisfy them, and they rose in revolt anyway.

Saudi Arabia will open its first cinema in 35 years this month, complete 500 leather seats and an orchestra, as part of reforms that mark an end to decades of restrictions imposed by powerful clerics.

Comstock, with his black frock coat and muttonchop whiskers, was an imposing and powerful presence.

Mr. Pasqual's staging of "Il Prigioniero," with sets by Paco Azorín and costumes by Isidre Prunés, is dark, imposing and powerful.