Sentence examples for imposes a double from inspiring English sources

"The ringfencing of my budget imposes a double duty to secure real value for money," he said.

As the great Stanford economist Kenneth Arrow put it in 1973, speculation based on private information imposes a "double social loss": it uses up resources and undermines markets.

But, if this sin of omission exists, the charitable explanation would be that the subject imposes a double penance on schedulers.

Seeing it imposes a double, a blessedly double strain: when your sides are not aching from laughter your brains are throbbing in an attempt to outguess the director".

The "lagaan" of the title is the tax that the British imposed on Indian farmers at the time of the Raj; the villainous Captain Russell Paul Blackthornee) imposes a double lagaan, but agrees to waive it if the locals can beat the Brits at cricket - but meanwhile his beautiful sister Elizabeth Rachel Shelleyy) is falling in love with the defiant villager Bhuvan (Aamir Khan).

For one thing, that would impose a double burden on the current working generation.

But there's more going on than a simple attempt to impose a double standard.

"The court is simply wrong, it has imposed a double standard," Mr. Crampton said.

While holding out the promise of reductions in violent crime, these initiatives impose a double burden.

This imposed a double burden to fight against enemy forces and to protest against the "friendly fire" of racial prejudice.

A: We do remove some particularly strong uses of bad language, but on the whole we allow swearing in comments since we don't want to impose a double standard on commenters: our writers are permitted to swear in articles.