Sentence examples for imposes fear from inspiring English sources

"imposes fear" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to express the fact that something causes fear, or to refer to a feeling of fear that someone has. For example: "The King's tyrannical rule imposed fear among the citizens of the kingdom."

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A movement that frames its cause as liberty imposes fear, and service only to the gun.

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"Those who have tried to make guns part of America's wardrobe and folks like the NRA and others, who work very hard to try to impose fear among so many people to think a gun is the only way to protect you," Pfleger said on CBS Chicago.

In introducing the song, he said: "To love this song is to take into your heart the message, and to actually have the feeling to arrive and move forward and not live your life in fear, [not] imposing that fear on other people".

Hostage-taking became a tool to impose both fear and influence.

It was imposed for fear that Boston would get congested during the Big Dig, a construction project.

But a new coach with a stern attitude can impose a fear of making mistakes, as Bill Parcells did in Dallas.

The fact that expression contains falsehoods does not deprive it of protection, because otherwise such expression in the public interest would be deterred by monetary judgments and self-censorship imposed for fear of judgments.

Perhaps ironically, religions tend to share a similar view: that moral conduct doesn't come naturally, but instead needs to be imposed through fear or the promise of reward.

While recreational users can be fined, the law prevents addicts from having a financial penalty imposed for fear that in trying to raise the fine they might be driven to commit a crime.

While Benítez's players shrugged off the inhibitions imposed by fear of relegation, Tottenham's shockingly abject performance emphasised their failure to recover from the blow of losing out to Leicester in the title race.

The T-bone is expected to return to European menus next week as veterinary experts of the European Union prepare to lift a four-year ban on beef cut from the spinal cord of animals aged over 12 months that was imposed over fear of mad cow disease.

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