"imposing distance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation in which two people, or groups of people, intentionally create distance between themselves. For example, "The two countries have been imposing distance on each other since the trade dispute began."
An independent study by Hertfordshire Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (HACRO) has shown that maintaining prisoners' contact with their children is made difficult by holding Hertfordshire prisoners at such imposing distances from their home area.
I suspect this combination of tiny screen size and imposed distance explains why Jimmy Savile had any kind of TV career whatsoever.
He rejects the imposed distance and boundaries between object and observers, while retaining the standards and rigor required of good science.
Still, I agreed with Nehring's argument that we need "to rediscover the right to impose distances, the right to remain strangers".
The sum of squared differences (SSD) between the distances observed in the final model and the imposed distances was 107 Å.
The dancers perform with a radiant precision, but it is in the transcendent thread of the Vaughan Williams solo that Clinkard encapsulates the double dynamic of his choreography, drawing us into the intimacy of the dancers' interactions, but also imposing a distance, as if observing from a bird's-eye view.
Clustering was based on maximal dissimilarity partitioning with the clusters derived by imposing a distance threshold between a molecule and its cluster representative.
When presented with a hypothetical scenario of a pandemic, employees in insecure jobs that lacked leave entitlements reported that they would be less likely to comply with social distancing measures [ 3], and indeed a recent study in the US found that work-related barriers to imposing social distance was associated with increased incidence of influenza-like illness during the H1N1 outbreak [ 4].
This exposure can be reduced to a level of no or minimum concern by imposing isolation distances.
He erases rather than imposes anthropological distance.
