Sentence examples for insisted on imposing from inspiring English sources
The same goes for the management of the Cyprus crisis, where the somewhat anti-market European Commission insisted on imposing capital controls against the E.C.B.'s advice.
By rejecting the terms of the bailout, the Cypriot parliamentarians have effectively called the bluff of Germany, Europe's dominant power, which insisted on imposing harsh terms.
Mr Gates often insisted on imposing a "strategy tax" on its products in order to strengthen Windows and Office, explains David Bank in "Breaking Windows" (The Free Press, 2001), a book on Microsoft's internal struggles.
Most media accounts of the talks report that it was the president, Nicos Anastasiades, who insisted on imposing a levy not just on big deposits but also on those under €100,000 – although these are supposed to be protected by a deposit guarantee, like everywhere else in the EU.
When Margaret Thatcher – who unlike many women of the time had never joined the Wrens or carried out other volunteer work during the second world war – insisted on imposing the 1991 War Crimes Act against the resistance of the Lords, peers complained that the average age of the then MPs when war broke out in 1939 had been six.
Yet, with absolutely no evidence of any actions of wrongdoing by Tom in the Wells report, the lawyers at the league still insisted on imposing and defending unwarranted and unprecedented discipline.
One does not genuinely treat others as equals if one insists on imposing principles on them that they cannot reasonably accept, even if this imposition takes place against the background of egalitarian decision making processes.
What's more, Clinton insists on imposing an interest rate freeze for five full years.
But his ability to persuade has been undercut by House Republicans who insist on imposing untimely austerity on the United States.
Kim Wayans describes having a Muslim boyfriend who insists on imposing his own ideas of beauty, and on changing her name.
He insists on imposing, and exposing, his personal passions and foibles, at times overshadowing the movies he produces and distributes.
