Sentence examples for imposing schemes from inspiring English sources

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Houston's flatness and unboundedness -- it sprawls over a larger area than Los Angeles -- give it a theoretical quality, inviting developers and dreamers to imagine imposing schemes both greedy and utopian.

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I figured I'd neglected to water it, much like citizens, inattentive to civic and political responsibilities, have permitted Republicans to impose schemes that undermine democracy.

Brooks is no observational comedian; his very subject is people who take drastic steps to put some drama into their lives, to transform life by imposing theatrical schemes on them, and his films are themselves comedies that depend upon those schemes for their plots.

He spent most of his life mocking, battling, and deprecating the liberals' penchant for imposing tidy schemes on an untidy world--what he called "rationalism --and his challenge to theirationalism --and starationalism --and

"We don't support the idea of bypassing the ICAO and unilaterally imposing a scheme that the rest of the world doesn't agree with .The commission has now decided to wait until 2013 before extending its emissions-trading scheme to non-EU airlines, by which time the ICAO may have reached a consensus among its members.

"It doesn't matter if you are for or against - the council is riding roughshod over the residents by imposing the scheme and the impact on the whole city is frightening," he said.

Yet what Grandage and Ashford achieve, along with an imposing design scheme and a formidable triple-threat ensemble, largely minimizes those flaws.

A few leading citizens have called the environmental groups enemies of the nation that are trying to impose racist schemes to keep Belize undeveloped.

In light of Western ideas, it appears that the understanding of animals as subordinate and at service to human beings is a normative scheme relying on a dominant anthropocentric paradigm, which has been built and constantly renewed over time by the religious, intellectual, scientific, and public authorities, who had the cultural monopoly and the power to impose their schemes (Breakwell 1993).

Other reforms include changes to housing benefit and the scrapping of regional spatial strategies (RSSs) under the localism bill – going ahead after a legal dispute – that was criticised for imposing house-building schemes on communities and sometimes in protected green belt land.

Councils from across the West Midlands in the United Kingdom, including Birmingham and Coventry, rejected the idea of imposing congestion pricing schemes on the area in 2008, despite promises from central government of transport project funding in exchange for the implementation of a road pricing pilot scheme.

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