Sentence examples for imposes a direction from inspiring English sources

This formula also imposes a direction on to time; whereas every other physical law we know of would work the same whether time was going forwards or backwards, this is not true for the second law of thermodynamics.

'He felt that would impose a direction and not allow you to follow your instincts.

Conti seldom seems to impose a direction on these exchanges; she just picks up on her volunteers' body language and, before you know it, personalities develop and scenarios unfold.

Rather it involves the state building up the infrastructures and core technologies that entrepreneurs need to succeed, and then staying involved with its unique capacity to shape markets and impose a direction for innovation.

However, like imposed urban design, conference agendas also impose a direction and control, which is ironically anathema to a bottom-up approach.

This is, for instance, not the case for an additively manufactured cellular structure where the deposition process imposes a preferential direction on the matrix material.

Can America be like China, where a visionary government can impose a new direction on the country in the face of national emergency?

"I am a voracious reader and the teaching imposes a discipline and sense of direction on the reading.

This model induces a high order variation of the displacement field along the thickness direction and imposes a zero transverse shear stresses condition in the top and bottom surfaces.

Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Reid told the BBC on Sunday: "I am in no doubt that the leader of Unite wants to impose an ideological direction on the Labour party that would lead us into political oblivion, as it did in the 1970s and 1980s.

"I am in no doubt that the leader of Unite wants to impose an ideological direction on the Labour Party that would lead us into political oblivion, as it did in the 1970s and 1980s, and that's why this is a political struggle," he told the BBC.