The novelist and the older Pi are eager to impose interpretations on the tale of the boy and the beast, but also committed to keeping those interpretations as vague and general as possible.
Beginning with an abundance of dictionaries and looking to each word alone, the researcher must impose interpretations on these resources, as well.
Being a host means that we must learn how to allow others to interpret our texts for themselves and to find meaning for themselves instead of imposing our interpretations onto our guests.
We must open our eyes and recognize that Islamists like the Saudi Arabian government have been stealthily imposing literalist interpretations of Islam along with the rules and norms of 7th century Arabia by sponsoring our mosques and madrasas, and destroying local cultures.
The self-styled "Concerned Women for America" -- an extremist group that advocates imposing its interpretation of the bible on the entirety of US society -- has also tried to pressurize Wikipedia to censor the image.
A vast amount of studies have shown that anxious children display an interpretation bias, which means that they disproportionally impose danger interpretations upon ambiguous situations [ 26].
If Freud fudged, if Freud imposed his interpretations on his patients, if his correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess from the 1890's reveals that Freud worshiped someone we might today call a quack -- what does that say about psychoanalysis?
Kadri argues that over the past 40 years, governments that aspired to instill an Islamic identity have imposed austere interpretations of Shariah, ones that run counter to a millennium of transformation and universality.
Partly inspired by Saudi Arabia's strict Wahhabism, Egypt's Salafists seek to purge the faith of modern accretions and impose literal interpretations of dogma.Though only a few months old, and despite doubts that it could unite an array of often squabbling Salafist factions, Nour won 24% of the party-list vote and 21% of the seats.
Furthermore, "…they also present an important arena for contestation for all those scientists, consumers, policy-makers, producers who seek to impose their interpretations of reality on others" [13].
