Sentence examples for imposing it in from inspiring English sources

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And gradually reforming the death penalty — imposing it in fewer situations and with more safeguards, which other defendants could benefit from as well — might do more than outright abolition to address the larger problems with crime and punishment in America.

Although the increase had been expected to take effect in July, Mr. Bloomberg will recommend imposing it in January, which would generate another $600 million for the city in 2009.

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But drivers generally hate the idea, and efforts to impose it in this country have failed.

However desirable such a policy may be, seeking to impose it in this way was to treat Mexico as if it were Myanmar.

"But drivers generally hate the idea, and efforts to impose it in this country have failed," he wrote, referring to the United States.

The Reinheitsgebot, when Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria imposed it in 1516, had less to do with keeping peasants from poisoning themselves — never a great concern of the gentry — than with controlling the hops and barley crops.

He had imposed it in February, sacking his government, suspending his own constitution with the outside world, the better to deal with the Maoist rebels who now control over a third of his country.

Historians protested the Bush gag order when he imposed it in 2001, but Americans now following President Obama's diplomatic engagement with Moscow would be better armed with a defense against Republican attacks if they knew the details of the first engagement with Moscow by their cold-war hero, Ronald Reagan, and did not have to depend principally on the Soviet version.

"We have repeatedly said to the employer, rather than impose it in April 2015, let's put it off until 2016 to give unions and employers time to work out a solution".

Since President John F. Kennedy imposed it in 1961, the embargo has been the centerpiece of Washington's policy of hostility, and remains today the oldest and most comprehensive set of U.S. economic sanctions against any country in the world.

This minority and the ruling Orthodox rabbinate hold that biblical law supersedes the law of the state and have succeeded in imposing it on society in many areas, including intimate matters of family law, diet and Sabbath observance.

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