Sentence examples for imposition upon from inspiring English sources

Leaving aside the question of who, exactly, gay marriage would be an imposition upon, this seems prohibitively unlikely.

It is a serious imposition upon appointed counsel to require dissipation of energy and time in preliminary skirmishing.

To many a ten-thousand-dollar fine seems an absurdly light imposition upon a man who the prosecution was convinced had illegally accepted something in the neighborhood of ten times that amount.

They reject the imposition upon their societies of the values which also disturb them in the place of safety they have reached: the claim that human nature makes us all egotistical, venal and self-interested.

It happened to be a sharp and sickly winter in Sardinia, insomuch that the general was forced to lay an imposition upon several towns to supply the soldiers with necessary clothes.

While the Dutch treat the natives kindly, and will not allow any imposition upon them, they are very particular about anything that would bring a European below a native.

Sure enough, in the past year, the supposed impositions upon the yeomanry by the liberal/metropolitan elite have loomed large in Mr Hague's speeches.

This scepticism seems to underlie Zapata-Barrero's and Cantle's endorsement of Brubaker's critique of 'groupism' and 'political ethnicisation', the view that appeals to culture and ethnicity are not about things in the world but are perspectival impositions upon individuals who may wish to be free of them.

Intelligent life in these circumstances is not the triumphant imposition of human will upon a defeated natural order, but the reasoned discovery of how we live in such a way as not to destroy a balance in the natural order which we sense rather than fully grasp.

Second, the claim that Knoblauch's distress arises from the imposition of brain upon feeling (or mind upon matter) represents the worst, and most philistine, of mischaracterizations. Yes, one form of unwanted, conscious mentality may be intruding upon a different and required style of unconscious cognition.

The only official check upon the police that exists is to be found in the courts' imposition of rules upon them.