"Whatever else may be said of capital punishment," Justice Potter Stewart wrote for the majority, "it is at least clear that its imposition by a hanging jury cannot be squared with the Constitution".
So whatever your view of the superdelegates may be -- whether you regard them as counterweights to popular frenzy or as a paternalistic imposition by a bunch of old guys (and gals) -- it can't be said that their very existence is an affront to the workings of democracy, for large parts of this democracy work in just the way the superdelegates were intended to.
These two treatments share a common conception of legal obligation as justified imposition by a beneficent superior with access to sanctions.
the term "penalty" includes the imposition by an agency or court of a fine or other punishment; a judgment for monetary damages or equitable relief; or the revocation, suspension, reduction, or denial of a license, privilege, right, grant, or benefit.
"That is a take-it-or-leave-it provision; it is an imposition by any other name.
Words themselves are the product of a primary act of imposition by which a particular utterance is connected to some thing or property of a thing, the utterance providing the matter, which is said to be 'informed' by the act of imposition.
The commission's proposal would not make the sanctions fully automatic, but it would increase the probability of their imposition by introducing a so-called reverse voting mechanism.
But Nafta, far from being a unilateral imposition by Washington, was a Mexican initiative, devised by the Salinas administration (1988-94), and concluded after long and arduous bilateral negotiations.
In conclusion, the writer has attempted to retrace the dramatic story of the Zimbabwean national struggle for independence by depicting the causes of the conflict arising from the imposition by Rhodes of a colonial system on a society that had neither invited it nor agreed to it.
Testing the tax in controversy by the rule laid down in the Postal Telegraph Case, it becomes, in reason, impossible to conclude otherwise than that it is, both in form and substance, taxation by the state of Ohio of property beyond its jurisdiction, and that it also is an imposition by that state of a burden on interstate commerce.
The fighting with Libya, the imposition by Nigeria of an economic boycott, and international pressure led to a new international peace conference in Lagos in August, to which all eleven factions present in Chad participated.
