Sentence examples for imposed the second from inspiring English sources

Democracy cannot quickly be imposed The second proposition of a liberal conservative foreign policy is a recognition that democracy cannot quickly be imposed from outside.

Starting this year, Britain imposed the second of two new supplemental taxes on petroleum revenue from the North Sea, pushing the government's share to 50percentt.

So when President Jacques Chirac (a former chain smoker) declared a "war on tobacco" last May and imposed the second of three steep tax increases on cigarettes last month, the tobacconists of France counterattacked.

In order to obtain more control over the stress treatments imposed, the second set of experiments employed young rapidly expanding leaves harvested from glasshouse-grown V. vinifera cv.

That year, the Chicago Province's leader, the Rev. Robert A. Wild, imposed the first set of "guidelines" on Father McGuire.

So, on Aug. 5, 1861, he signed the newly-passed Revenue Act, which imposed the first federal income tax.

By 1999, the United Nations imposed the first of two sets of sanctions that cut off Taliban funds and arms.

Lawmakers in 2007, over the industry's objections, imposed the first retail caps on cross-border mobile voice calls.

It was Mr. Reagan who most forcefully imposed "the Eleventh Commandment," which forbade Republicans from openly criticizing others in their party.

Although Schleswig was completely lost to the Holstein-Hanseatic coalition by 1432, Erik defeated Hanseatic fleets and imposed the first tolls (1428) on ships plying the strait between Denmark and Sweden.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's government imposed the first curfew in the capital for 15 years and he appeared on television last night to offer reassurance.