Sentence examples for imposes pain from inspiring English sources

He did this despite opponents who obstruct all progress, tolerate a politics of hate and fervently hope his presidency fails even if their partisanship imposes pain on the nation.

The risk of imposing pain on these retail investors is that it provokes a deposit flight.

The traditional Asian parenting model is, in theory at least, premised on imposing pain now to reap meritocratic rewards later.

When that happens — and if the reforms work, it will — lawmakers will have to stand firm, even though it means imposing pain on the banks.

Experience strongly suggests that imposing pain on a society through weak demand and recession is a lousy and unsustainable way to improve the supply side.

"Gore felt that if we were going to impose pain on the American people, he wanted it to be environmentally conscious," said a member of the administration's economic team.

For Mr. Trump, imposing pain on China — or at least threatening to do so — is all a part of the plan to force that country to reduce its trade deficit with the United States.

Mr Singh's government lost its biggest coalition ally for daring to lift the price of subsidised diesel and to let in foreign supermarkets, under tight conditions.Democracy, some say, is the problem, because governments that risk being tipped out of power are especially unwilling to impose pain on their people.

For the same reason that workers are willing to strike now--to impose pain on management.

"The fact that the neuroscientist is 'pretty certain' that this doesn't impose pain is, frankly, not certain enough".

(The classical formulation, conspicuous in Hobbes, for example, defines punishment by reference to imposing pain rather than to deprivations).