Sentence examples for imposition a from inspiring English sources

Tax is seen as an imposition, a form of oppression.

This habit in particular feels like an imposition, a suggestion that the editor knew the writer's inventions and his world better than he did himself.

Take it from a fan who used to buy two tickets to the entire event and considered it an imposition, a gouge, when the organizers started including night matches in 1975 — at additional cost, it goes without saying.

Unlike in Kabul or the peaceful north, most citizens here seemed to view the polls as a dangerous imposition — a piece of Western-orchestrated theatre that would be yet another item in the long list of events and factions and policies to be endured.

Christmas is a colonial imposition, a cornerstone of the system that made slavery possible and poverty inevitable; but it is also the highlight of this little Jamaican kid's year, and its subjugations have simultaneously been outed by and sublimated into song: For all she's gladdened: milk dreaming love in one hand; clefts of clementine stain the other.

He's the only character who isn't dazzled by Melmotte and his money: "A miserable imposition, a hollow vulgar fraud from beginning to end, — too insignificant for you and me to talk of, were it not that his position is a sign of the degeneracy of the age.

To their leaders, tough fiscal rules are not an imposition but a guarantee against future instability.

Judges generally saw the new policy as an imposition, though a necessary one.

Or rather, it is an imposition of a later (Christian) narrative on earlier (Jewish) texts.

Environmental protection, they say, often feels like an imposition on a traditional way of life.

Receiving a call on a mobile wasn't an imposition like receiving a call to a home phone was.