Sentence examples for imposed top-down from inspiring English sources

Here, authority is not imposed top-down.

Golden Phoenix made clear that state and local officials do not want imposed, top-down solutions.

We're discovering that style – which is individually determined and therefore adaptable to any budget – is superior to fashion, the cost of which is harder to control because it's imposed top-down.

Let us keep in mind, though, that should these be imposed top-down, they will always reveal themselves to be an exclusive change, for the few and for a fleeting moment.

Unilever and Procter & Gamble have imposed top-down decision-making infrastructures.

Conservatives focus on Hayek's distrust of centrally imposed, top-down change.

It's not old, big-style government imposing top-down, heavy-handed intervention.

Because everyone is different, politicians ought to give us more space to pursue our own dreams, rather than try and make us feel better by imposing top-down visions of society.

Though the United States government donates money and food, and the United Nations, a pale shadow of a world government, plays a crucial role through its many agencies, big bureaucracies have a hard time helping little villages, imposing top-down strategies on places needing help from the ground up.

I resigned from the Liberal Democrats this week because I have been arguing within the party for more than a year that it is just not sensible to impose top-down reorganisation on an NHS struggling with the biggest financial crisis in its history.

Governments and port authorities could facilitate in this respect by working more demand-driven in terms of unburdening and creating more institutional support, instead of imposing top-down rules and regulations to try to govern the ecosystem, which in itself can be considered a contradiction in terms.