Sentence examples for is foisted upon from inspiring English sources

Orphaned as a child, he is foisted upon an unsympathetic uncle and then sent to boarding school.

State officials must work with advocates and providers to ensure that thoughtful and transparent operations are in place before the plan is foisted upon the vulnerable elderly and the disabled who rely upon it for their health care.

When a posh youth is foisted upon his household by Master Green, master of the Queen's revels (Mark Heap, bellowing, roaring and generally channelling Stephen Fry), Will must keep the oik, Florian, from marrying unsuitably until he begins his studies at Cambridge.

("So and so answered the quiz: What city should I live in?") I despise these asinine wastes of time and now all of the sudden everybody's quiz is foisted upon me 24/7 and I can't block them.

"We had to convince the doctors to let us come," said Homer Drew, who wore a blue blazer, resisting the urge to dress in the Day-Glo green that Baylor is foisting upon unsuspecting college hoops fans during the tournament.

Heffer was foisted upon him as deputy.

Not surprisingly, it's being foisted upon us by youth.

Partly, no doubt, because they don't like things being foisted upon them.

A more rigorous system of assessing the riskiness of loans is being foisted upon them.

It's easy for people to resent languages that are foisted upon them.

As important was that huge adjustments were foisted upon an extraordinarily rigid economy.