Sentence examples for imposed upon him from inspiring English sources

Every possible sort of punitive labor was imposed upon him, but nothing helped.

In doing so he is sticking to the conditions imposed upon him.

"Mr. Lake has fully served the sentence imposed upon him for his robbery conviction," Mr. Spitzer said in a statement.

He naturally accepts the institutions, manners and customs in which he is educated as necessities imposed upon him by Providence".

Akron and Tressel will need to consider if he can be involved with the athletic program, given the N.C.A.A. sanctions imposed upon him in December.

Alvear was not content, however, with the restrictions that Irigoyen imposed upon him, and he reluctantly led a conservative wing hostile to Irigoyen.

Whatever restraints the demands of office impose upon him, Mr Hague is not naive.

Shakespeare is too elusive to conform to the pattern that Hughes and Sagar seek to impose upon him.

He would sometimes talk about the blizzard of 1936, and he talked about the kindly cunning of the draft horses, who loved to impose upon him.

As in his earlier books, Ishiguro's real concern is with his main character's unerring ability to miss the call of freedom, in the blindness that his sense of obligation imposes upon him.

'If [your opponent] is secretly conscious of his own weakness and accustomed to hear much that he does not understand and to make as though he did, you can easily impose upon him by some serious fooling that sounds very deep or learned... ' One of my favourites, number 31, is the opposite of this.