Sentence examples for imposing high from inspiring English sources

It is also taking money out of consumers' pockets by imposing high tariffs and licensing restrictions on consumer goods.

Her parents shielded her from Birmingham's pervasive racism, she writes, "by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence".

Even worse, centrally imposing high levels of synchronization increases the overall amount of idleness in the system.

Third by imposing high prices to readers and libraries in order to maintain high profits and an obsolete infrastructure.

France has a generous welfare system that it has been able to finance only by racking up debts and imposing high taxes.

This was accomplished mainly by imposing high tariffs on imports and thereby sheltering Argentine textile, leather, and home-appliance manufacturers from foreign competition.

The House of the Silver Wedding, with its imposing high-columned atrium, was also built during this period, but it underwent later alterations.

Yet though the imposing high-rises became a byword for violence, alienation and crime, they will be missed by the many artists, writers and filmmakers who made it the subject of their work.

Across the room from the worktable, an imposing high-fidelity unit stands on top of another bookcase, this one containing a large record collection, in which works by Mahler, Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Wagner, and Verdi are heavily represented.

The countries also must consider imposing higher taxes on tobacco.

Last year, France passed a new law imposing higher taxes on DRM-ed ebooks.