With the imposition of the over-75s free licence fee, the BBC had to do everything it could to keep in touch with young audiences so services like Radio 1 or even BBC1 could not be jeopardised.
In that sense it is a triumph of personality over physiognomy, the imposition of substance over surface.
An unsorted backlog of 150,000 cases, the court's reluctance to take into account distinctive legal traditions of member nations and its allegedly over-rigid imposition of abstract human rights concepts have all been offered up as evidence of its dysfunction.
The audacity of its design can be breathtaking in its conviction and the imposition of form over function.
Sure, Tan did not help himself with the unsympathetic imposition of red over blue in the Cardiff kit switch, dismissing a century-old tradition and the deep attachment of supporters to the Bluebird ethos.
It was also reported on Saturday that the US had delayed the imposition of sanctions over recent ballistic missile tests by Iran, in order to safeguard the release of those held prisoner.
The room overlooked a grassy quad, where in 1952 students gathered to protest the imposition of Urdu over Bengali and other regional languages in what was then still East Pakistan.
In understanding our ethical and legal attitudes to the risk and benefits of treatment, we must indeed be wary therefore of any desire by groups, such as practitioners of geriatric medicine, to make claims of a specialized form of knowledge and to legitimize the imposition of controls over aging members of the population.
However, Thabo Makgoba, the archbishop of Cape Town, has said: "We overcame deep differences over the imposition of sanctions against apartheid and over the ordination of women, and we can do the same over human sexuality".
In the past decade about 4m new pupils entered the classroom; nearly nine out of ten school-age Kenyans under 11 are now in education.But the row over the continued imposition of fees, and concerns over plummeting standards, make many observers wonder if the money has been wisely spent.
Over the last year, particularly over the imposition of sanctions on that country after the Ukraine conflict, we've been seeing hundreds of intrusions from them over the last couple of months". There are other identified groups.
