Not just Stalinism as something imposed and official, something comfortably alien, but something intimate to his patriotic, upwardly mobile Soviet generation, from which, with astonishing and lonely determination, he managed to alienate himself.
She said controls on existing plants would be imposed by something similar to the "state implementation plans" that the E.P.A. has required for most of the last three decades, to regulate pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
But the game's operator apparently found it was too easy for the tyranny of the simple majority to impose democracy (something not found in politics).
When the first cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome appeared in Singapore, the government dusted off its powers to impose quarantine, something it had not done since independence in 1965.
Moreover, the C.F.P.B.'s portion of the settlement, $100 million, allowed the agency to proclaim it the largest penalty it ever imposed, something that was sure to draw further attention.
"I generally don't like it when someone imposes something on me, dictates something to me or orders me around — how to live, how to dress," Ms. Estemirova said.
"She thought it was ridiculous to impose something most people at the party don't want to eat.
I would go so far as to say that we're contributing to the insurgency's popular support base by treating rule of law as something that is imposed, not as something that begins at a very local level.
I hate what I call "morphous" design, where a shape is imposed on something for no reason.
So it feels like a real choice, as opposed to something that was imposed on us.
