Sentence examples for imposing reputation from inspiring English sources

Worst player Dirk Kuyt Forged himself an imposing reputation with Feyenoord last season and arrived with his coach, Marco van Basten, having hidden him away in the build-up so that he might explode upon an unsuspecting tournament.

Pozo was also acquiring an imposing reputation on the drum known in Cuba as the tumbadora, or the conga -- a lower-pitched drum that was flexible in its use, capable of providing a propulsive boot to the underlying rhythm as well as making variations on top of it.

In his three years on the bench, he built a reputation for imposing stiff sentences.

The IMF's reputation for imposing harsh reforms, along with the partial surrender of sovereignty to an American-based institution, seems bound to make Greeks cross.

And given India's appalling reputation for imposing arbitrary taxes on companies, it is encouraging that the government has not appealed against a recent court judgment to do with tax in favour of big multinationals.Another crucial area is to push forward plans for a national goods-and-services tax (GST).

Indeed, some analysts now see the Taliban in Helmand as to some extent a tribal force, representing particular groups excluded from power since 2001.Historically, the Taliban's strengths were their Islamic credentials, their reputation for imposing law and order and their opposition to tribal factionalism.

Described as a large and physically imposing character with a reputation for womanising, Le Gris was a liege man (feudal retainer) of Count Pierre d'Alençon and a favourite at his court, governing a large swathe of his liege lord's territory in addition to his own ancestral holdings.

By imposing costs on terrorists' reputations, chances for success, material assets — whatever they hold dear — you "alter the behavior and thinking of your adversary".

Mr. Hoffman has an imposing body and a large reputation, but he is a seasoned enough ensemble player to give the others some room.

As mayor in the southern city of Nis, his straight-talking style and imposing physique earned him a reputation for being tough.

Some Democrats on Capitol Hill agreed, saying that Mr. Obama's reputation for not imposing discipline had more to do with the current nature of legislating in Washington, where the two parties have grown increasingly polarized.